Job Description

Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.) - Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions - Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and prescriber reauthorisations. - Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate - Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics. - Answering relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g.

community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. - Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets) - Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team. - Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.



* Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.- Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (Qof) indicators..- Checking patients prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another. Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.- Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.- Securing inventories controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.- Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions- Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening. - Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.- Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.- Providing regular updates and monitors KPIs to operational management team- Taking responsibility for resource planning to meet service and contractual requirements