PCN – Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary

Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist with proven leadership qualities who is passionate about advancing clinical pharmacy services in primary care? The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking for 2 Senior Clinical Pharmacists to join their growing pharmacy team, to support and enhance the clinical pharmacy service at practice level. This is an exciting opportunity, in a new and innovative supernumerary post, to collaborate with an experienced lead pharmacist, as part of an established and innovative pharmacy leadership group, developing the knowledge and skills of our team and the clinical and operational services it delivers, to meet the diverse needs of our patients. The ideal candidate will be an experienced clinical pharmacist and independent prescriber with leadership and management qualities, who is committed to improving patient care and passionate about the positive impact pharmacy professionals in general practice can make. The candidate must be able to lead a pharmacy team across multiple practices working in an effective and integrated way as part of a diverse range of practice teams. An understanding and appreciation of general practice is essential, to identify the need of practices, and develop a team and the services it delivers to meet these needs. You will be expected to enroll on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) if you have not completed already or can be exempted.

Main Duties of the Job

The post holder will have line-management oversight over a team of pharmacy professionals in ensuring these teams work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical pharmacy, patient-facing medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisation and re-authorisation, acute prescription requests, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. In this role the senior clinical pharmacist will have the support of the lead clinical pharmacist. One successful candidate will work across our neighbourhood practices in the village of Dronfield (Dronfield Medical Practice, Stubley Medical Centre and Oakhill Medical Practice), whilst the other successful candidate will work across our neighbourhood practices to the North and West of Chesterfield (Chatsworth Road Medical Practice, Newbold Surgery and Whittington Moor Surgery). Practice-based/home-based flexible working arrangements are available, but the innovative nature of the role is not consistent with predominately home-working. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offer structured pay progression and NHS pension. Interviews will be held face to face on Thursday 21 May from 12.00 onwards at Dunston Innovation Centre, Chesterfield, S41 8NG.

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is the umbrella organisation of the Primary Care Network (PCN) in Chesterfield and Dronfield. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is an alliance of GP Practices. The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], formed by ten member practices is one of the largest Primary Care Networks in the UK and covers circa 100,000 patients, in North East Derbyshire. The PCN has an established and growing team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, who are embedded in practices across the PCN, and are committed to delivering high quality care for our patients. We deliver enhanced services within the PCN designed to support and enhance the services offered by our member GP Practices within Chesterfield. We do this by employing staff to work through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme and finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the changing needs of the Practices; we bid for contracts to help tackle health inequalities and drive up standards of care within the Chesterfield and Dronfield locality. Our mission: Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and wellbeing for all. Benefits of working with us: NHS Pension Scheme, 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff), Up 5 days professional/study leave per annum (pro rata), Access to Wellbeing support & Employee Assistance Programme, Blue light Card Discount.

Job Responsibilities

• Patient facing medicines support: Hold clinics for patients requiring medication reviews, stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicines adherence reviews (including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-term condition/clinical reviews or holistic long-term condition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews).
• Medicines related clinical support for care homes: Deliver clinical medication reviews in collaboration with patients, care home staff, and the Ageing Well team.
• Long-term condition Clinics: See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.
• Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews: Deliver clinical medication reviews with patients in care home or domiciliary settings.
• Risk stratification: Identify cohorts of patients at increased risk of harm from medicines using agreed searches.
• Unplanned hospital admissions: Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions.
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital: Reconcile medicines following discharge.
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients: Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries.
• Signposting: Ensure patients are referred to appropriate healthcare professional.
• Repeat prescribing: Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process.
• Service development: Contribute pharmaceutical advice for development of new services.
• Information management: Analyse, interpret and present medicines data.
• Medicines quality improvement: Undertake clinical audits of prescribing.
• Medicines safety: Implement changes from MHRA alerts.
• Implementation of local and national guidelines: Monitor practice prescribing.
• Education, Mentoring and Clinical Supervision: Provide education and training.
• Care Quality Commission: Work to ensure practices are compliant with CQC standards.
• Public health: Support public health campaigns.

Person Specification

Other (Essential)

• Adaptable and self-motivated
• Meets DBS reference standards
• Appropriate Immunisation Status
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality

Qualifications (Essential)

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Independent Prescribing or working towards qualification
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in General Practice or 5 years in other clinical pharmacy
• Demonstrates understanding of relevant standards

Qualifications (Desirable)

• Clinical Diploma
• Membership Primary Care Pharmacists Association
• Membership Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience (Essential)

• Experience of working in Primary Care

Skills and Knowledge (Essential)

• In depth therapeutic & clinical knowledge
• An appreciation of GPs and General Practice
• Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing & negotiating skills
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Ability to lead, motivate and manage a team
• Experience of collaborative working
• Demonstrate ability to communicate complex information
• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise & review medicines optimisation issues
• Knowledge of IT systems
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Understand systems of research governance
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability
• Able to recognise personal limitations
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk

Employer Details

Employer name: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
Address: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], Dunston Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 8NG

Contact: Lead Clinical Pharmacist Adam Yates - [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]