Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Organise and develop clinical pharmacy services in designated patient populations. The designated population will be more than one primary care network, Directorate service or other population/cohort across Newcastle geography of a similar size (e.g. care home residents or the frail population). Responsibilities include building and developing relationships between pharmacy professionals, regardless of employing organisation, and other NHS services.
• Provide professional leadership for the teams of pharmacy professionals.
• Perform the role of line manager and clinical supervisor for up to ten pharmacy professionals working across the designated populations.
• To promote the safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with colleagues from all disciplines to share good practice and change prescribing behaviours where necessary.
• To coordinate the activities of clinical pharmacy staff within Community Health and other designated directorates.
• To perform the professional role of a registered Independent Prescriber (Non-Medical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individual’s scope of competence. 
• Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
• Provide expertise in structured clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients, regardless of setting. This could be in secondary care, primary care, intermediate care or domiciliary settings as befits the needs of the patients. 
• Run clinics where medicines pay a key role in the management of patients with long term conditions; for example, up titration of heart failure and hypertension medicines when clinically appropriate, reduction of cardiovascular risk, anticoagulation, management of chronic lung diseases. Help patients to meet their health goals, reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and unnecessary medicines waste through structured clinical medication review.
• Reconcile medicines following transfer between care settings and work with patients and their usual care providers to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post transfer of care.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.
• Interface and collaborate with community pharmacy, medicines optimisation and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of Stock Shortage Protocols and the Repeat Dispensing and New Medicines services.
• Support the development of safe, efficient systems for prescribing and managing medicines. This can include but is not limited to advising on prescribing workflow and procedures, sharing good practice in and between care settings and promoting the use of facilitative technologies.
• Manage patients and health care professionals’ medicine queries.
• Collaborate with colleagues in all settings to implement drug withdrawals, shortages and alerts e.g. from the Clinical Commissioning Group or Medicines Health Regulatory Authority aimed at improving medicines safety.
• Work with other healthcare professionals and patients to implement NICE, Shared Care and other evidence based guidelines.
• Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews, multidisciplinary reviews and learning from serious incidents and near-misses.
• Provide medicines information, clinical supervision and training to healthcare professionals and administrative staff.
• Review and interpret pathology results for patients in their care.
• Act as a source of medicines information for healthcare professionals patients and carers (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stock medicines).