Clinical Pharmacist - Maternity Cover

Undertake structured medication reviews (face-to-face or remotely), focusing on high-risk groups such as care home residents, housebound patients and patients with polypharmacy or complex chronic conditions 

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge, ensuring continuity of therapy and safe handover with community pharmacists 

Implement MHRA alerts, drug withdrawals and evidence-based guideline changes within the practice or across the PCN 

Support chronic disease management clinics (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, osteoporosis, mental health) 

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews - QOF domains and register improvements 

Lead prescription management processes, including repeat prescribing authorisation (including reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions, medicines reaching review dates, ensuring drug monitoring is being done and prescribing clerks support) 

Provide medicines information, training and prescribing advice to practice staff 

Collaborate with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues to align services (e.g. Discharge Medicines Service, New Medicine Service) 

Identify high-risk patient cohorts through computer searches (e.g. AnalyseRx) to reduce harm and prevent avoidable admissions 

Participate in audits, quality improvement initiatives and local medicines optimisation schemes (e.g. QPMS, DSQS, QIPP) 

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across the patient population, e.g. drug withdrawals and MHRA alerts, aimed at improving medicines safety 

Provide primary support to general practice staff and patients with regards to prescription and medication queries, answering relevant medicine related enquiries (e.g. doses, side effects, adverse events, alternative formulation, out of stocks)