Job summary
Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supporting
delivery of the Network Contract DES Service specification. These roles are
critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes and reduce
health inequality in practices, care homes and domiciliary settings.
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job,
based on the Job Description and Person Specification, therefore do ensure your
application clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.
***Previous applicants
need not apply***
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for supporting SWAGGA Member Practices in implementing the NHS Long Term Plan which includes effective medicine management, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating, streamlining and managing change and reducing duplication across the Network.
The post holder will be an experienced pharmacist, ideally already qualified as an Independent Prescriber, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.
About us
SWAGGA is a network developing at pace and are now in a
position to recruit further Clinical Pharmacists to shape and drive
therapeutical and pharmaceutical decisions and needs. The network has strong
foundations and we want SWAGGA to be a network that delivers good quality
prescription and financial management and be a leader in providing joined up,
integrated clinical care to its patients, supporting our practices to thrive.
SWAGGA is a large network, with a population of approximately 100,000 patients,
covering 16 practices.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of the role are to:
- Contribute to the
network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding
the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing
action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions
within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.
- Undertake clinical
medication review in patients with single or multiple medical problems. Review
management of long-term conditions, assess the patients needs and optimise
their medications to support in achieving better health outcomes. Pharmacists will be expected to challenge
potentially inappropriate polypharmacy.
- Reviews will be
undertaken as virtual/telephone consultations or face to face: in SWAGGA member
practices; as domiciliary visits or in care homes.
- Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical
audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.
- Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of the
national medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or the
need for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, always
meeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team.
- Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when
patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.
- Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on
achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified
patient cohort.
- Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the
PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to
help nurture a robust team.
- All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent
prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have
personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved
to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must
ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team
and in line with the NMP Policy.
- The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to
practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK
Drivers Licence is therefore essential
Job description
Job responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of the role are to:
- Contribute to the
network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding
the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing
action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions
within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.
- Undertake clinical
medication review in patients with single or multiple medical problems. Review
management of long-term conditions, assess the patients needs and optimise
their medications to support in achieving better health outcomes. Pharmacists will be expected to challenge
potentially inappropriate polypharmacy.
- Reviews will be
undertaken as virtual/telephone consultations or face to face: in SWAGGA member
practices; as domiciliary visits or in care homes.
- Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical
audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.
- Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of the
national medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or the
need for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, always
meeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team.
- Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when
patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.
- Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on
achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified
patient cohort.
- Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the
PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to
help nurture a robust team.
- All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent
prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have
personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved
to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must
ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team
and in line with the NMP Policy.
- The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to
practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK
Drivers Licence is therefore essential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification or equivalent vocational experience
- Independent prescriber.
- Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
- Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).
Desirable
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information.
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments.
- Experience of measuring and understanding KPIs.
Desirable
- Experience of in depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices.
- An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice.
- Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these.
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification or equivalent vocational experience
- Independent prescriber.
- Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
- Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).
Desirable
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information.
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments.
- Experience of measuring and understanding KPIs.
Desirable
- Experience of in depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices.
- An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice.
- Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these.
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex 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).
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).