Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regard to prescription and medicines management at different sites. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on the transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice (s). They will deliver an efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality clinical service by providing clinical and professional development to the clinical workforce within K&W Healthcare & member practices.,

• Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent (especially locum GP time) by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patients or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines. Ensuring they get the best use of their medicines
• Minor ailments triage: Managing caseload of patients with common /minor/self-limiting ailments requesting GP appointments and triaging patients appropriately.
• Provide patient-facing clinics for those patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medication in order to improve medication adherence.
• Minor ailments appointment slots as appropriate
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  K&W Healthcares primary objective is to support GP Practices and services across the Brent localities of Kingsbury, Willesden and Wembley.Our aim is to develop quality primary care for patients within Brent and strive for continuous improvement in the delivery of primary healthcare services across our GP practices.
K&W Healthcare is a GP-led organisation made up of 24 GP practices serving a registered population of over 300,000 patients. We are committed to improving the care provided to patients, reducing health inequalities and raising the quality and standards of GP practices. You can find out more about our governing body, member practices and how we work with Brent Integrated Care Partnership to provide better outcomes for our patients