Are you passionate about making a real difference in patient care? We have an amazing opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our innovative and friendly PCN pharmacy team.
We are seeking to recruit a Part-time Pharmacist required to work 16-18 hours per week including Fridays.
We are a small but dynamic team, on the lookout for someone who's eager to support our practices and patients with safer, more effective medication management.
You will work alongside multi-disciplinary teams, with regular support from a Lead Pharmacist, clinical supervisors, and peers who are always ready to collaborate and share best practices.
We are committed to your professional growth ensuring plenty of opportunities for learning and development, so you will always be growing in your role and skills.
You will play a key role in enhancing the quality of care we provide to our patients, working within local and national guidelines to ensure safe, effective medicine management.
We truly value teamwork, collaboration, and the sharing of ideas and best practices, so a passion for working with others is key.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of something forward-thinking and impactful. If you are ready to join a team that supports you, encourages your growth, and lets you make a real difference in patient care, then please apply.
IF YOU ARE SUCCESFUL IN YOUR APPLICATION THEN INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD IN BELPER ON TUESDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER
Belper PCN is a formal association of 4 GP practices, based in and around Belper, that are working together to provide a selection of health services to our combined list of 46,500 patients.
The two keystones of our approach to healthcare are teamwork and innovation. We believe that by working together and being open to new ideas we can both improve the lives of our patients and contribute to the sustainability and growth of the primary care sector.
The PCN has a history of adopting new approaches in community care and already has an existing team of pharmacists and advanced care practitioners who have delivered real change and improvements to patient care.
Job Decription
The Clinical Pharmacist will work across the Practices to provide:-
Patient facing long-term condition Clinics - be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities.
Clinical medication reviews - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for safer prescribing and monitoring. Supporting patients to practice self-care and reduce risks of long-term harm related to medications.
Care Home Medication Reviews - Undertake clinical medication reviews to produce recommendations for the Lead ACP or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Patient facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews -Where needed undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Risk stratification - Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Unplanned hospital admissions - Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
Patient medicines support - Provide face-to-face and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Medicine information to practice staff and patients - Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
Signposting - Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat prescribing Support the implementation of a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Help oversee the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process to ensure medicines reaching review dates are highlighted and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Service development - Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Information management - Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines quality improvement - Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the PCN lead pharmacist, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
Medicines safety - Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations - Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Education and Training - Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care Quality Commission - Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Clinical supervision actively participate in monthly group clinical supervision and quarterly one-to-one peer support sessions to share learning experiences and support team development.
Continual Professional Development (CPD) ensure CPD requirements for GPhC registration are met and always maintained.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm Degree
- Registration with the GPhC
- Minimum of 2 years post-graduate work experience
- Completed the primary care pharmacy education pathway or has equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Independent Prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
Excellent interpersonal skills including communication, influencing and negotiating
Self-motivated, able to manage own time and work on own initiative
Understand and be able to work in a multidisciplinary team
Computer literate Up to date clinical knowledge and Continuing Professional Development
Experience of working in primary care
Critical appraisal skills
Desirable criteria
Knowledge of local and national priorities
Experience of working in Community pharmacy
Experience working with SystmOne
Understanding of ePACT data
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Pay: £49,000.00-£56,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
