PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Patient facing Long-term condition reviews - Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases where medicine optimisation is required. E.g. COPD, asthma, mental health and diabetes.
• Telephone and Patient facing clinical medication reviews - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate recommendations for the clinical team on prescribing and monitoring. Through structured medical reviews the post holder will support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care. Medication reviews for patients who are regular A+E, Urgent Care Centre or hospital attenders.
• Patient facing medication reviews for housebound patients - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate recommendations for the clinical team on prescribing and monitoring. Work with carers and care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Possible future management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments whilst working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals as appropriate.
• Management of repeat prescribing and develop standardised protocols across network practices for reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates etc.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients at PMC and help in tackling inequalities.
• To have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider health care teams (community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload. The role has the potential to significantly improve the quality of care and safety for patients.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PMC .
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, audit, clinical research with medicines, liaise with specialist pharmacists, community pharmacists and drug monitoring including anticoagulation and DMARDS.

Education, training, development and research

Essential

• Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service
• Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process
• Induction, on the job training and on-going mentoring will be given to the successful candidate
• Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague.
• Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity
• Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes
• Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice
• Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
• Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
• Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level
• Demonstrates ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice
• Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance
• Demonstrates ability to work as a member of the research team

IT

Essential

• Commitment to the use of IT, data entry, read coding and targets.
• Extraction of data and use of spread sheets to analyse and present information to determine trends or highlight potential problem, as required by PMC.

Desirable

• Previous experience of Emis web desirable but not essential.

Leadership and Management

Essential

• The post holder will supervise him/herself by making decisions regarding meeting targets independently, producing reports highlighting performance information.
• Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace
• Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
• Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
• Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
• Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
• Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
• Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Demonstrate the ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer as appropriate.
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and procedures and codes of conduct.
• Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

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).