Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

To provide and receive complex or sensitive information to patients/carers, GP practice staff, other members of the Medicines Optimisation Team and wider ICB and ICS. To communicate results of audits and other prescribing related work to ICS partner staff or concisely, presenting information in a suitable format (e.g. written and/or verbal) and style for the target audience. To attend and contribute to partner provider meetings and other prescribing meetings, on issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation. To assist with the monitoring and analysis of complex prescribing data and offer support to partners who are outlying on key prescribing indicators. To undertake audits of SY ICS partners to assess prescribing against local and national guidelines and provide an interpretation of the outputs to colleagues. To interpret and make judgements using clinical and non-clinical data, which may be incomplete from patients notes and other sources, alongside organisational and
national guidance to facilitate patient care and specific issues, ICB priority areas and local /national guidelines. To consider a range of potential options and be confident in deploying one of those options. To plan and organise of multiple tasks, activities, or programmes some of which more be complex and concurrent to be delivered to ICS partners or colleagues e.g.: training on a particular medicines topic, medicine changes. Planning own work to meet assigned targets, some of which may be ongoing work. Co-ordinate with pharmacy technicians and project/ program leads, as well as the service requirement of the ICS partner receiving support. To provide, if deemed necessary by the ICB, direct patient care and consultation related to health initiatives. To provide specialist clinical advice to practitioners and patients based on interpretation of medical data to improve the care of an individual, or groups of patients/clients in the care settings supported by the ICB. To work
with ICS partners towards the delivery of the medicines optimisation Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP agenda) and ICS IPMO agendas, implement and support local formularies, and other prescribing objectives and strategies as determined by the strategic team. Feedback to line managers and colleagues where improvements could be made across the spectrum of work encountered. Postholder should observe their personal duty of care in relation to IT equipment providers and ensure protection of data held in line with the information sharing protocols. To support with the training and induction of new and existing staff members. To deliver agreed core training to provider colleague staff members, and ICB staff on specialist areas of involvement. To commit to continual professional development as per GPhC requirements and maintain a personal portfolio. To accurately make agreed changes to patients medicines and update patients records with details of the
changes made and to update records in a timely manner at the time the change is made. To work with members of the team to develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data. To develop and maintain databases required by job. To maintain administrative and information resources To advise and demonstrate own activities to other colleagues. To participate in research to ensure pharmacy services, medicines optimisation and clinical research involving medicines are provided, developed, and undertaken in accordance with relevant governing frameworks and ethical and quality standards. To evaluate and present the results of the reviews and audits conducted in providerpartners, both individually and collectively, in conjunction with other members of the Medicines Optimisation Team working in the practice. To work on own initiative and unsupervised to design and manage workload to meet set objectives, guided by ICB and NHS processes,
peers, and experience. To deliver against agreed objectives, achieving quality outcomes assigned by line managers. To organise meetings or events in connection with portfolio of work. Light physical effort required, carrying of laptops, projectors, and light event equipment. There is a daily requirement for working at a workstation for much of the day. Frequent requirements for prolonged concentration for much of the working day, i.e., checking documents, analysing statistics, and conflicting priorities. Elements of the work will be unpredictable with need to switch task without warning to support a situation of event e.g.: stock shortage, procurement of service, staff cover of a different area of work within Medicines Optimisation. Expose to accounts involving patient that may cause distress, occasional encounters with patients or practitioners that involve the imparting of difficult or unwelcome information. The role will be a hybrid working environment,
between home and base location utilising IT on daily basis for most of the time, but also travelling to other Acute Trusts / place localities across the South Yorkshire locality. Remote working is often part of a hybrid approach. Postholder must be able to independently travel around the locality.