Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Senior PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Accountable and reporting to:

Location:

Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Rushcliffe PCN

THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

General Practice is at the heart of the Health and Social Care System, and it is critical to have thriving, sustainable general practices that meet local peoples health needs. The Senior Clinical Pharmacist is instrumental in supporting their own practices clinically and developing and mentoring the more junior pharmacy workforce within Rushcliffe PCN. This is a key role, intended to support the delivery and development of the pharmacist role in primary care and ensure that we continue to provide high quality, accessible and responsive services to both practices and patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and GP Clinical Lead for pharmacy to deliver the strategy for clinical pharmacy within the PCN.
• Delivers effective clinical and managerial leadership to allocated members of the pharmacy team.
• Supports Lead Clinical Pharmacist with the training and clinical supervision of the wider PCN pharmacy team
• Demonstrates understanding and implementation of appropriate governance.

• Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.

• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

• Acts within professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in general practice.

• Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role.

• Takes responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertakes clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

• Provides primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. (helps support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice)

• Provides clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manages some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

• Ensures that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

• The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

Summary of primary duties of the senior PCN pharmacist

1. Line manager for PCN clinical pharmacy team

Day to day line management of clinical pharmacy team who have differing competencies and abilities.

Complete monthly 1-1 reviews with all staff for whom you have line management responsibilities.

Responsible for 3-month probation review, 6-month probation review and annual appraisals for all staff for whom you have line management responsibilities.

Responsible for 6 monthly prescribing audits for all Independent Prescribers for whom you have line management responsibilities

Be the link between PCN leadership and management team (including PCN Clinical Pharmacy lead) and PCN pharmacy team.

Create development plan for all staff that you have line management responsibility for.

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Follow all HR processes correctly

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

2. Development/training and supervision of PCN clinical pharmacy team.

Support with recruitment and induction.

Ensure the team are receiving regular supervision.

Provide training to support the development of individuals, as well as to the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

Provide support for supervisees with CPPE pathway

Willing to be DPP for pharmacists within the team who are studying for their IP qualification and/or undergraduate pharmacists.

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service

Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process

3. Service development

Work in partnership with PCN leadership for the implementation and delivery of the medicines related elements of the Network Contract DES and other significant contracts / frameworks.

Work in partnership with PCN leadership to deliver digital and operational transformation.

Work closely with stakeholders to lead on reviewing, developing, and providing high quality pharmacy services within the PCN.

Look at service improvement and development through lens of reducing local health inequalities.

4. Lead quality improvement for the PCN pharmacy service

5. Representation of service

Attend relevant meetings related to their speciality, role, and experience.

Management skills

Essential

• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
• Experience of managing a team, including performance review
• Experience of training junior colleagues

Professional registration

Essential

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Membership of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Qualifications and training

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy
• Holding an independent prescribing qualification
• Clinical Diploma or significant Clinical Experience
• Demonstrates understanding of and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• An understanding of the role of the clinical pharmacist within a primary care network.
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to communicate and create plans and reports
• Knowledge and ability to use GP clinical systems
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Understand the principles of research governance

Personal Qualities and attributes

Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of colleagues from the NHS and other organisations and with patients using appropriate media including good written, and oral communication skills
• Ability to identify and manage risk when working with individuals
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Ability to provide leadership and finish work tasks
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
• Can work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding lone working information governance, and health and safety

Desirable

• A Passion for Digital innovation. Using technology to improve patient outcomes.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualifying experience as a pharmacist
• Minimum 2 years' experience of working as a pharmacist within primary care (GP Practice)

Qualifications

Essential

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Self-motivated
• Ongoing up to date safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Immunisation status
• Access to own transport or ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
• Ability to work in different locations and help to provide cover for absent colleagues, and to take part in an extended working day in line with other general practice colleagues

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).