Job summary
GPA is a medium sized organisation, and rapidly expanding GP Federation based in Northampton, leading the transformation of equitable healthcare across the town and beyond.
We are excited to be recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to work across Grand Union PCN.
Our Clinical Pharmacists are highly
valued and well-integrated members of the practice teams, as well as being
supported by the wider GPA team. It is due to the success of our existing team
that our practices are keen for us to expand.
We will offer you:
- Full induction to primary care, our team, and your practices.
- Great work/life balance and flexibility
- Hybrid working:
- Using face-to-face patient consultation and examination skills.
- Great working relationships and involvement by working in practice.
- Support in working from home, providing you with necessary equipment and ensuring you still have support of colleagues in practice.
- Regular supervision and support with senior pharmacist and the wider team.
- Protected study leave & funded access to:
- Centre of Postgraduate Pharmacy Education (CPPE) PCPEP pathway. More information is available here: https://www.cppe.ac.uk/career/pcpep/pcpep-training-pathway.
- Independent Prescribing course.
- Career development and progression, we already have a specialist depression clinic, heart failure reviews and host a shared foundation year pharmacist each year.
- Expenses covered including Indemnity insurance, GPhC, RPC.
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff).
Main duties of the job
The role of the Clinical Pharmacist in primary care is hugely varied and challenging. We meet
regularly with our practices to ensure the Pharmacists have clear workplans and
objectives. This has been hugely successful in ensuring we are using individuals
skills, delivering on the GP contracts, and supporting the practices as needed.
The successful
candidate will be integral part of the practice team, answering medicine
queries from patients and colleagues, delivering structured medication reviews,
supporting our care home patients with their medicines, working closely with
the pharmacy technicians in our team.
We have great links
with our local prescribing team, our community pharmacies, the local DGHs, the
Primary Care Training Hub and the new ICS. These links mean we can support and
work with our colleagues from all sectors to give our patients high quality
medicine support. For example our team support local initiatives within the
prescribing achievement framework.
We are passionate about developing pharmacy
professionals of the future and currently share both trainee pharmacist and
apprentice posts with NGH. We have plans to host undergraduate pharmacy
students from the next academic year. All our team support in training new
staff, other healthcare professionals and students.
Interview dates: 13th/14th/15th June
Please indicate any preference on your application and we will try to accommodate, however this cannot be guaranteed.
About us
GPA provides a pharmacy service to 3 PCNs. We aim to enhance patient experience within Primary Care. We are passionate about training and supervision, supporting our staff to achieve their potential. As a team we work closely with other services. This means we are aware of local issues and can work to overcome any issues across healthcare boundaries.
This is what some
of our team have said about working for us:
'Very supportive
team, friendly and caring. I feel lucky to be part of a great team who helped
me believe in myself and helped me achieve so much in a short time.'
'I can honestly say
all the team members are easily approachable and supportive of each other. A
wide variety of skill sets within the team to utilise. I have been able to
learn so much and develop my clinical skills. It is a privilege to work
alongside all members of the team.'
'Having worked in a
different sector of pharmacy for many years I find the GPA pharmacy team to
incredibly supportive, professional, and very well respected by other
healthcare professionals. Love being part of this team.'
For more information about GPA and the pharmacy team please
visit our website: https://northantsgpalliance.com/
Please contact Philippa Jones, Principal Clinical Pharmacist or Zoe Webb, Lead Pharmacy technician for an informal chat or more information.
Email: Philippa.jones10@nhs.net Tel: 07708476743
Email: Zoe.webb5@nhs.net Tel: 07708473000
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full Job Description please see supporting documents.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Undertake SMRs in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Using tools available to identify and prioritise patients according to clinical risk and contract requirements.
Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to clinicians or action recommendation for medicine improvement as appropriate.
Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines.
Provide patient facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Answers medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the public.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full Job Description please see supporting documents.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Undertake SMRs in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Using tools available to identify and prioritise patients according to clinical risk and contract requirements.
Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to clinicians or action recommendation for medicine improvement as appropriate.
Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines.
Provide patient facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Answers medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the public.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Completion of CPPE PCPEP (or equivalent) pathway, or willingness to undertake this.
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and General Practice
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Independent prescriber
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Full Driving Licence or ability to travel between practices
- Enhanced DBS
- Safeguarding adult and children level three
Job Circumstances
Essential
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own home
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Completion of CPPE PCPEP (or equivalent) pathway, or willingness to undertake this.
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and General Practice
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Independent prescriber
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Full Driving Licence or ability to travel between practices
- Enhanced DBS
- Safeguarding adult and children level three
Job Circumstances
Essential
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own home
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
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).
