Job summary
This is an exciting
opportunity to join our established and award-winning Cheltenham Central PCN
Pharmacy team and help deliver an ambitious, patient-focused service that
supports NHS priorities and public health. You'll lead on medicines
optimisation through structured medication reviews, promote safe, effective and
cost-conscious prescribing, and empower patients to manage their health,
medicines and long-term conditions. This role
offers the chance to shape the future of General Practice healthcare and
advance the pharmacy profession. You'll work collaboratively within a
supportive team that shares knowledge, tackles complex queries together, and
encourages professional growth, while also working independently and
recognising your limits.
We are looking
for a GPhC registered pharmacist with strong clinical knowledge and a good
understanding of evidenced-based healthcare.
It is advantageous, but not essential, to have completed
the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway and be a qualified Independent
Prescriber.
You will
excel if you have:
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong organisation and prioritisation
- Flexibility and resilience
- A proactive, adaptable approach
In return, we
can offer you a flexible and supportive working environment which values both
your personal wellbeing and professional development. If you're passionate
about helping people get the most from their medicines and want to contribute
to a sustainable NHS, wed love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Your role will
be to support the ongoing work within Cheltenham Central PCN, to deliver
medicines optimisation and offer high quality, safe and cost-effective
medicines and patient centred care. You will work closely with individual
practice leads at your designated practice(s) and the pharmacy team to tailor
the delivery of network priorities and targets with a practice-based focus. Main duties include medication reviews and
management of long-term conditions, providing medicines information and advice
to patients and colleagues, audit and quality improvement work, leading of safe
prescribing and ensuring the practices are CQC compliant. This list is not
exhaustive: see full details in the attachment to this advert.
About us
Cheltenham
Central PCN consists of 5 GP practices serving a population of over 50,000
people.Our well-established pharmacy team of 7 Pharmacists and 3 Pharmacy
Technicians benefit from experienced joint Lead Pharmacists, who will support
you both professionally and personally to help embed you into the role.
We have a
forward thinking and supportive PCN Leadership Team, who champion the benefits Pharmacists
and Pharmacy Technicians can bring to General Practice. With teaching practices
within the PCN, there is a positive learning environment with the opportunity
to teach various members of the MDT. We have generous leave allowances and
consider flexible working, aiming to optimise work life balance whilst
providing a high quality and reliable service.
Our team are
supportive of one another, embrace our diversity, and constantly learn from
each other. We benefit from a fresh and modern joint working space, allowing
the team to consult colleagues for help. We champion face to face clinics and
developing our clinical skills via access to clinic rooms, where available,
whilst managing the day-to-day medicines management workflow (medication
requests, clinical letters and queries and discharges).
If you enjoy a
sociable, friendly and collaborative team, as well as autonomous working,
helping to develop other professionals and up-skill yourself, then this is the
environment to grow your talents and strive to work to the top of your
professional capabilities and beyond.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full job description and personal specification attached to this advert.
Brief description (Job Summary and Purpose):
The post holder will work within the Cheltenham Central PCN,
which includes 5 practices across Cheltenham, ensuring that medicines management
processes within these practices are optimised to achieve highly effective,
safe and patient-centred prescribing. You will be allocated practices (up to
two practices depending on hours worked) to work between within your working hours.
Each practice has a buddy system in
place, to allow for cross cover and support. This helps embed the individuals in the surgery and improve communications and consistency in cover by sharing knowledge and experience of practice working.
We aim for each practice to have a
primary or lead Pharmacist who will lead on pharmacy related workflow at the individual
practice and be their point of contact with the PCN pharmacy team. This person
will liaise with the other pharmacists in the PCN and practice-based teams, and
work with the PCN team Lead Pharmacists as required to share best practice and
gain support and advice, and top down information from county wide meetings to
share with the practice.
The post holder will be a pharmacist,
who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside
a team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In this role they will be
supported by the Lead Clinical Pharmacists who will develop, manage and mentor
them
The post holder will work as part of a
multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take
responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and
undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with
complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary
support to general practice staff dealing with prescription and medication
queries. They will help support the repeat prescription process, deal with
acute prescription requests, and carry out medicines reconciliation on transfer
of care. They will help implement systems for safer prescribing, providing
expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public health and
social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical
leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and help in the
management of some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and local
enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure 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.
The post holder will ideally already be
an Independent Prescriber and have undertaken the CPPE Primary Care
Education Pathway or have completed the Exemption and equivalence
processes for the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway. However, if they
do not hold these qualifications then training will be provided and
supported.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full job description and personal specification attached to this advert.
Brief description (Job Summary and Purpose):
The post holder will work within the Cheltenham Central PCN,
which includes 5 practices across Cheltenham, ensuring that medicines management
processes within these practices are optimised to achieve highly effective,
safe and patient-centred prescribing. You will be allocated practices (up to
two practices depending on hours worked) to work between within your working hours.
Each practice has a buddy system in
place, to allow for cross cover and support. This helps embed the individuals in the surgery and improve communications and consistency in cover by sharing knowledge and experience of practice working.
We aim for each practice to have a
primary or lead Pharmacist who will lead on pharmacy related workflow at the individual
practice and be their point of contact with the PCN pharmacy team. This person
will liaise with the other pharmacists in the PCN and practice-based teams, and
work with the PCN team Lead Pharmacists as required to share best practice and
gain support and advice, and top down information from county wide meetings to
share with the practice.
The post holder will be a pharmacist,
who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside
a team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In this role they will be
supported by the Lead Clinical Pharmacists who will develop, manage and mentor
them
The post holder will work as part of a
multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take
responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and
undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with
complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary
support to general practice staff dealing with prescription and medication
queries. They will help support the repeat prescription process, deal with
acute prescription requests, and carry out medicines reconciliation on transfer
of care. They will help implement systems for safer prescribing, providing
expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public health and
social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical
leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and help in the
management of some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and local
enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure 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.
The post holder will ideally already be
an Independent Prescriber and have undertaken the CPPE Primary Care
Education Pathway or have completed the Exemption and equivalence
processes for the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway. However, if they
do not hold these qualifications then training will be provided and
supported.
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in GP practice
- An appreciation of the nature of general practice & PCNs
- Sound therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidencebased healthcare
- Experience of patient facing working
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good time keeping
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Self-motivation & Initiative
Desirable
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Good IT skills
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber
- Primary Care Education Pathway, Statement of Progression.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in GP practice
- An appreciation of the nature of general practice & PCNs
- Sound therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidencebased healthcare
- Experience of patient facing working
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good time keeping
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Self-motivation & Initiative
Desirable
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Good IT skills
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber
- Primary Care Education Pathway, Statement of Progression.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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).
Additional information
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).