Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and care homes producing prescribing and monitoring guidance for network practices.

Act as an interface with PCN Stakeholders including (but not limited to) acute trust, community services, mental health, community pharmacy and CCG.

Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.

Maximise the use of technology and management systems to provide PCN level management of safety, risk and information.

Focusing on prevention of illness and personalised care and supporting patients to make informed decisions about their care and look after their own health, by connecting them with the full range of statutory and voluntary services.

Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.

Support the network practices in improving the health of their patients through the rational and safe use of medicines.

Undertake responsibility for areas of QoF, Quality Contract and QIPP for the network practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Co-ordinate and lead network initiative meetings ensuring key performance indicators are identified and plans for achievement shared.

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients/polypharmacy patients.

Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses.

Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.

Computer data entry/data allocation and collation, processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures.

Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare professionals and providers.

Participate in the primary care network MDT liaising with key stakeholders to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Responsibility for Administration and the PCN Reputation

Other duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all of the items in thefollowing list:

Helping to maintain a positive, patient focussed culture.

Helping to maintain a positive, supportive culture across the whole of the PCN team.

Duties will vary from time to time under the direction of the clinical director and network management leads, in agreement with the post holder, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Demonstrates understanding of the implications of local and national priorities for the network and its population.
• Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Good communication and record keeping skills.
• Experience in using IT based patient documentation systems.
• Able to professionally and appropriately challenge differing opinions as a patient advocate.
• Experience and awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Able to work autonomously, using own clinical judgment to form clinical plan.
• Dispensing skills as per protocols and patient group directives.
• Knowledge of medical model of documentation.
• Able to give appropriate telephone advice.
• Understanding of health education/promotion.
• Experience of following referral pathways.

Desirable

• Awareness/knowledge of child protection issues.
• Experience of clinical audit and research projects.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working with reach people from all communities.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in pharmacy with post graduate experience in pharmacy.
• Medical Prescriber.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Committee.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to work cooperatively with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able and willing to develop professionally.
• Able to use own initiative.

Desirable

• Able to promote a learning environment.

Other

Essential

• Able to deal with violence, aggression and extreme situations.
• Vaccine and immunity status in accordance with UK Department of Health Guidelines.
• Able to deal with sensitive issues e.g. sudden death/bereavement, child abuse, domestic violence.
• Able to adjust and respond in rapidly changing environments.
• Able to work in a calm and organized manner in situations of extreme workload.
• Hold a current driving licence with business insurance.
• Enhanced DBS disclosure.

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).