Lead Clinical Pharmacist - ChAMP PCN

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Approximately 50 per cent of the week to be spent undertaking work to achieve all PCN DES medicine management targets including IIF;

• Work alongside the PCN Management and wider team to identify areas of prescribing requiring improvement and provide leadership in implementing suggested changes;

• Ensure the pharmacy team deliver the requirements of structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation;
• Work with external partners (e.g.; CCG and community pharmacies) to support collaboration in delivery of priorities and targets. Work across organisational boundaries to engage in interagency collaboration;
• Help the PCN Management team identify priority areas of work and provide regular updates to the PCN Board on the delivery of identified priorities for the pharmacy team;
• Promote new ways of working and ensure shared best practice;
• Co-ordinate workload across the team to reduce duplication, increase learning and develop team member strengths and interests;
• Ensure effective induction of new team members and provide clinical supervision and mentorship to support team’s development and capacity
• Build good relationships with practices and help embed the role of Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians to maintain clarity of direction and expectations of pharmacy team;
• Create a supportive culture by encouraging innovation and ideas for improvement through continuous review, quality and service improvements;
• Promote and facilitate an active and positive learning environment to enable others to achieve their potential, particularly by encouraging and supporting reflective practice;
• Facilitate opportunities for team members to learn from each other (e.g.; through improved communication, team meetings, shadowing, etc.);
• Support the creation and delivery of integrated and personalised care models that promotes continuity of care for patients with long-term-conditions and complex needs;
• Lead and coordinate clinical audits through collection and use of process and prescribing data to support quality improvement projects and initiatives;
• Lead on development of policy and procedures to improve quality of structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation;
• Advise PCN Management team and PCN Board of prescribing and medicine management variation and put forward ways to address health inequalities and improve patient care;
• Create, promote and support the use of audit tools to support continuous quality improvement in prescribing and medicine optimisation data across the PCN as specified in QoF/DES/QIS guidance;
• Lead and support the promotion of health literacy projects across the PCN to help promote patients’ self-care;
• Promote public health interventions and initiatives in the PCN to improve patients’ experience of service and health outcomes;
• Commit to your own personal and clinical development.

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Qualifications

Essential

• Master of Pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Independent prescriber

Desirable

• Completion of CPPE pathway

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a PCN Clinical Pharmacy role

Desirable

• Competent user of both TPP SystmOne and EMIS Web
• Experience of managing a team

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Great Leadership skills
• Good negotiation, influencing and motivational skills
• Demonstrated commitment to continual improvement of services and processes.
• Confident in the collection, analysis and presentation of data
• Conversant with quality improvement tools and techniques
• Good understanding of the NHS Long Team Plan and ability to implement relevant guidance on Medicine Optimisation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Innovations in Primary Care

Address

Units 8-11 Orchard Industrial Estate

10-12 Fitzalan Road

Arundel

West Sussex

BN18 9JS

Employer's website

https://innovationsinprimarycare.com (Opens in a new tab)