Job summary
Altrincham Healthcare Alliance Primary Care Network (PCN) is providing an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join a proactive PCN of five GP Practices covering 48,000 patients.The ideal candidate will be a forward-thinking, enthusiastic individual with initiative who is keen to work within a team of like-minded people and deliver excellent pharmacy-led services to our population in south Trafford.
You will become part of an evolving team of Clinical Pharmacists with clinical support from the Lead GP. Working across the five GP practices within Altrincham Healthcare Alliance PCN, you will work closely with GPs, nurse practitioners, social prescribers and existing pharmacists as part of a multidisciplinary team while also building strong effective working relationships with the local community, hospitals, the PCN community pharmacy lead and wider pharmacy teams to improve the care and services to our patients.
The role will focus on PCN initiatives as set out in the PCN contract, NHS Long Term Plan and deliverables agreed by the network members to improve place based patient care.
Main duties of the job
- Management of patients with chronic diseases to proactively manage patients with complexpolypharmacy
- Clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specificdisease areas
- Provision of specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address publichealth and social care needs and tackling inequalities across the PCN area
- Development of relationships and close working with pharmacy professionals across thewider health and social care economy
- Provision of leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement
- Delivery of first-class, professional service to support patients and GP practices across thePCN
About us
We are an enthusiastic, friendly PCN committed to improving the health of our population and providing a first-class, caring, patient-centred health service. We are constantly striving to improve patient healthcare outcomes and the post holder will play an integral role within the network and be part of the MDT enabling this to happen.
NHS England has significant ambitions for PCNs, with the expectation that they will be a key vehicle for delivering many of the commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan. Pharmacists will play a key role in providing a wider range of services to patients.
Our pharmacy goals are: to improve patient lives, to make medicines safer for patients, to raise the profile of PCN Clinical Pharmacists as medicines experts in the multi-disciplinary team of general practice, and to reduce GP workload.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE:
To support Altrincham Healthcare Alliance Primary Care Network in all aspects of medicines optimisation.
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:
• Management of long-term conditions
• Minor illness
• Management of medicines on transfer of care
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.
• Action acute prescription requests
• Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
• Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes.
• Undertaking clinical audit
• Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial).
Please refer to the attached document which provides full details of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE:
To support Altrincham Healthcare Alliance Primary Care Network in all aspects of medicines optimisation.
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:
• Management of long-term conditions
• Minor illness
• Management of medicines on transfer of care
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.
• Action acute prescription requests
• Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
• Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes.
• Undertaking clinical audit
• Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial).
Please refer to the attached document which provides full details of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent + 1 year pre-registration training.
- Holds or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- Successful completion of/working towards completion of the CPPE Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice Education Programme
- Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
Essential
- Commensurable experience working at foundation level of the RPS pharmacy framework, demonstrated within practice portfolio
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
- Post registration experience minimum of two years
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with internal and external agencies/ stakeholders
- Experience of planning complex medicines management projects and programmes
- Evidence of significant personal development, professionally
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent + 1 year pre-registration training.
- Holds or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- Successful completion of/working towards completion of the CPPE Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice Education Programme
- Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
Essential
- Commensurable experience working at foundation level of the RPS pharmacy framework, demonstrated within practice portfolio
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
- Post registration experience minimum of two years
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with internal and external agencies/ stakeholders
- Experience of planning complex medicines management projects and programmes
- Evidence of significant personal development, professionally
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).
