Job summary
This is an
exciting opportunity to join our team as an enthusiastic and forward thinking
Clinical Pharmacist, working with general practices across our PCN footprint,
with support from our existing clinical teams to deliver excellent patient
care. Based at Tieve Tara Medical Centre this role will involve working across multiple sites within the PCN. We have an established team of
Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy
Technicians, receiving support from a Senior Pharmacist and GPs who are able to develop and mentor our
team.
The role
includes focusing on elements of the Impact and Investment Fund (IIF) and
supporting elements of PCN Contracts which our GP practices follow.
We will aim to interview successful applicants on Tuesday 10th January (this is subject to change).
Main duties of the job
The post
holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a
multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management,
provide face-to-face structured medication reviews, manage long term
conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer
prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation,
acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social
care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. The post
holder will perform face-to-face medication review of patients with
polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and
those with multiple comorbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on
quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the
Quality and Outcomes Framework. This role is pivotal to improving the quality
of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to
deliver an excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be
supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber,if that
qualification is not already held.
About us
Wakefield North Primary Care Network (PCN) are developing our services to support our six general practices and patients in our PCN across the Eastern side of Wakefield District, serving a population of approximately 46,000.
Our PCN is committed to improving the care provided to our patients, reducing health inequalities and raising the standards and quality of our general practices.
You
will be employed by Conexus Healthcare Limited (the confederation of General
Practice in Wakefield)
Conexus Healthcare
Limited is the Confederation for general practice in Wakefield, we have four
areas of work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for further details of this post, including a person specification outlining key requirements for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for further details of this post, including a person specification outlining key requirements for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Current GPhC registration
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (Desirable)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a specialist level with CCG, community or hospital pharmacy services and/or at the interface between primary care and other healthcare providers.
Desirable
- Experience of using SystmOne, General Practices clinical electronic system, desirable
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of general practice and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of the principles of Medicines Optimisation
- Knowledge of polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Awareness and understanding of risk stratification approaches to identify chronic disease and long term conditions patients
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s)
- Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice providers and social care
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective consultation skills within a clinical setting to support people be activated in their own care including use of motivational interviewing techniques, patient education and supported self care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good working relations across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience and/or awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Must have an understanding of the aims of current healthcare policy, including the new GP contract and the NHS Long Term Plan
- Awareness of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems
- Able to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent ability to organise oneself and others
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision; accepts accountability for and learns from their acts and omissions
- Skills in preparing formal documentation for staff, public and patients
- Able to demonstrate tact, empathy and diplomacy in order to communication confidential and sensitive information to patients and healthcare professionals
- Able to demonstrate and engagement of GPs in the effective and appropriate use of medicines and of medicines optimisation services
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to groups
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of activities formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to work with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and service development/new ways of working
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight, and often changing and conflicting deadlines
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and internet to produce simple plans and reports
- A full driving license and access to a car for driving across the PCN as required
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and complex clinical and organisational issues
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to perform patient-centred medication reviews to a proficient level using techniques such as motivational interviewing etc
- Sound problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to establish systems and ensure delivery of data gathering and reporting for highly detailed outcome and output measures relevant to the GP Clinical Pharmacy pilot
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Self-motivated
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
- Able to travel independently across Wakefield District
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Current GPhC registration
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (Desirable)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a specialist level with CCG, community or hospital pharmacy services and/or at the interface between primary care and other healthcare providers.
Desirable
- Experience of using SystmOne, General Practices clinical electronic system, desirable
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of general practice and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of the principles of Medicines Optimisation
- Knowledge of polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Awareness and understanding of risk stratification approaches to identify chronic disease and long term conditions patients
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s)
- Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice providers and social care
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective consultation skills within a clinical setting to support people be activated in their own care including use of motivational interviewing techniques, patient education and supported self care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good working relations across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience and/or awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Must have an understanding of the aims of current healthcare policy, including the new GP contract and the NHS Long Term Plan
- Awareness of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems
- Able to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent ability to organise oneself and others
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision; accepts accountability for and learns from their acts and omissions
- Skills in preparing formal documentation for staff, public and patients
- Able to demonstrate tact, empathy and diplomacy in order to communication confidential and sensitive information to patients and healthcare professionals
- Able to demonstrate and engagement of GPs in the effective and appropriate use of medicines and of medicines optimisation services
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to groups
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of activities formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to work with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and service development/new ways of working
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight, and often changing and conflicting deadlines
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and internet to produce simple plans and reports
- A full driving license and access to a car for driving across the PCN as required
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and complex clinical and organisational issues
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to perform patient-centred medication reviews to a proficient level using techniques such as motivational interviewing etc
- Sound problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to establish systems and ensure delivery of data gathering and reporting for highly detailed outcome and output measures relevant to the GP Clinical Pharmacy pilot
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Self-motivated
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
- Able to travel independently across Wakefield District
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
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
