Fixed-term (9-12 months, maternity cover)
Full-time (option to compress hours into 4 days)
Hybrid working
Start date: August–September
Salary based on experience
- Trumpington Street Medical Practice
- Newnham Walk Surgery
- Lensfield Medical Practice
Job Summary
Overseeing the professional clinical and pharmaceutical aspects of medication management, collaborating with medical staff and adhere to guidelines to ensure safe, cost-effective medication use while minimising inappropriate usage risks. Providing leadership to a team of pharmacy professionals, driving evidence-based pharmaceutical care within primary care, ensuring patient safety and effective outcomes.
Job Description:
Clinical:
- To lead and direct clinical pharmacy activities when delivering a specialist pharmacy service, including identifying and resolving individual patient medicines care issues and providing specialist pharmacy advice. This involves employing a systematic approach to individual patient care, conducting drug monitoring (TDM), and addressing adverse drug reactions (ADR) promptly and effectively.
- To provide education and support, as part of the multidisciplinary team, to patients managing long-term conditions, enhancing patient knowledge and concordance.
- To promptly and efficiently answer medicines information queries from patients and healthcare professionals, improving information provision and pharmacy awareness.
Team Management:
- Provide leadership, direction, and support to the wider pharmacy team in their roles and tasks related to prescribing.
- Set performance objectives, conduct regular evaluations, and provide constructive feedback to ensure high-quality work output from the wider pharmacy team, including clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
- Coordinate the workflow within the team, ensuring efficient processes, and timely completion of tasks related to prescribing activities within the PCN.
- Coordinate the rota, and coordination of tasks and activities among team members, ensuring adherence to NHSE and local protocols and guidelines for efficient processes and timely completion of prescribing-related tasks.
Resource Management:
- Lead the identification and delivery of prescribing efficiencies with medicines, contributing to the managed entry of new medicines and ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations.
- Manage staff on a day-to-day basis, including recruitment and HR functions, to ensure delivery of the clinical pharmacy service within the specialist area aligns with national standards and service specifications.
Prescribing Management:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based prescribing systems for primary care, ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations and attainment of Prescribing Indicators.
- Provide leadership and contribute to the development of clinics and systems to maximise benefits and minimise risks to patients of medicines, particularly in chronic disease management.
Clinical Governance:
- Facilitate the delivery of national and local NHS Health strategy policies, monitoring and evaluating prescribing against quality standards to ensure safe practices and service quality improvement.
Community Pharmacy Development:
- Participate in developing Cam Medical PCN (Primary Care Network), supporting key projects and task groups, and fostering relationships between community pharmacists and practices.
Education and Research:
- Lead pharmacy research and audit, reporting findings at local and national levels.
- Deliver education and training to pharmacists, healthcare professionals, students, patients, and carers through formal settings, workshops, and teaching sessions.
Communication:
- Document pharmaceutical care issues in patient records and inform medical/nursing staff of urgent actions required.
- Implement and communicate clinical governance and medicines management objectives, ensuring adherence to guidelines and safe prescribing practices.
- Provide specialist information and support to junior pharmacists.
- Convey pharmaceutical information tactfully to patients and healthcare professionals, ensuring understanding and compliance.
- Facilitate effective communication within the pharmacy team and with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care.
Quality:
- Lead the development and implementation of pharmacy and practice-wide guidelines and policies, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
Medicines Management:
- Support senior management and partners across the PCN in various activities including CQC requirements, governance, and risk management, with a focus on medicines management.
- Lead the oversight to ensure effective monitoring and action-taking on high-risk drug alerts and patient safety alerts, with accountability for compliance during CQC inspections.
Research & Audit:
- Conduct and lead audits and research to improve services and ensure compliance with guidelines.
- Present audit data and research findings to pharmacy teams and the PCN Board for review and action.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
Experience:
- SystmOne: 1 year (preferred)
- primary care: 1 year (required)
- team management: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cambridge CB2 1EH
