Clinical Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity to work as a Clinical Pharmacist in our expanding, supportive and well-run group of practices, in Kingswinford and Wordsley Primary Care Network (PCN), is now available.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide medicines optimisation and prescribing support activities within the Pharmaceutical Public Health Team PCN DES and strategic KW PCN work programmes. The post holder will contribute to safe patient care through provision of clinical audits, regular review and monitoring of patients based on clinical need. The post holder will act as an advisory resource to practices in relation to medicines optimisation, medicines waste, medicines adherence, admissions avoidance and repeat prescribing.

Main duties of the job

The duties and responsibilities are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the post holder. As Kingswinford and Wordsley PCN develops, the requirements of the job may develop and change.

However, to provide an insight into this role, the successful applicant could be expected to be involved the below:

Contribute to medicines safety work through the analysis and prioritisation of PINCER, medication safety indicators and other practice based clinical audits to promote safe and effective prescribing.

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Undertake clinical structured medication reviews with patients taking high risk drugs (within scope of professional practice) and review for ongoing need and appropriate monitoring, making recommendations to senior staff/GP as appropriate. Arrange suitable follow up appointment(s) to monitor the effect of any changes implemented.

Kingswinford & Wordsley Primary Care Network is a network of 5 practices with a list size of over 50,000 patients. This role exists to support the delivery of the Kingswinford & Wordsley Primary Care Network agenda. The post will form an integral part of the PCN leadership team working alongside the Practice Managers and the Clinical Director and the PCNPartners.