About the role
Salary: Negotiable
South Rural Primary Care Network are looking to recruit a PCN Clinical Pharmacist to join their established team based at Holbrook and Shotley Practice. Offered on either a full or part-time basis, the successful candidate will be expected to work across both practices.
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
Act as the PCN point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships
Liaise with the practices and, where practicable, to standardise the medicines management process across the PCN
Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
Manage a caseload of complex patients
Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc.
Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly
Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
If you would like to find out more information about this
role, please see the attached job specification.