Job summary
Oldham Central PCN is seeking a
Clinical Pharmacist to join our well established PCN pharmacy team. This is an exciting
opportunity to join an innovative and supportive multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, providing clinical support within the PCN and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams in general practice. In this role you will receive appropriate clinical supervision. You will ensure practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise the skills mix within teams, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. Perform a patient facing role to include undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy in a variety of settings including the surgery, patient homes and residential care, and with a view to meeting demands of new workstreams in primary care. Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice.
You will be supported to develop your role to become a non-medical prescriber.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic
diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people
with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those
with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) for
encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of
medicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting good
practice in line with national requirements, NICE implementation and
utilisation of.
Action
clinical letters and discharge summaries, providing leadership on person
centred medicine optimisation and quality improvement. Assist with drug
monitoring including high risk drug monitoring, switching medications to agreed
and approved protocols, Manage the repeat prescribing
reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines
reaching review dates, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
About us
Oldham Central PCN compromises of eleven member
practices with a joint patient population of 70,000 (approximately), each with
its unique strengths and expertise. Our aim is to leverage these strengths and
foster collaboration among our network members to Deliver its key objectives
contained in the Directed Enhanced Service Contract (DES) from NHS England and
NHS Improvement and enhance the quality and efficiency of care delivery and By
working together, we can offer a wide range of services, support and
coordinated care effectively, and improve patient outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is an
integral part of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses
our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the PCN. The
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of
national policy, where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy
within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of
hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.
Clinical Pharmacist play a key role,
complementing and working alongside the PCN pharmacy technicians and other
members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
Ideally, the post holder will be a
prescriber, or willing to complete training to become a prescriber. You will be
responsible be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic
diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people
with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those
with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) for
encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of
medicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting good
practice in line with national requirements, NICE implementation and
utilisation of.
Action clinical letters and discharge
summaries, providing leadership on person centred medicine optimisation and
quality improvement. Assist with drug monitoring including high risk drug
monitoring, switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, Manage the
repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat
prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates, minimising clinical risk
and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
Experience of community pharmacy,
Primary or Secondary care would be beneficial to the role, we welcome
applications from newly qualified pharmacists. It is a requirement of the PCN
to complete the CPPE Pathway, The Clinical Pharmacist team will support you
throughout the pathway training, if not already completed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is an
integral part of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses
our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the PCN. The
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of
national policy, where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy
within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of
hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.
Clinical Pharmacist play a key role,
complementing and working alongside the PCN pharmacy technicians and other
members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
Ideally, the post holder will be a
prescriber, or willing to complete training to become a prescriber. You will be
responsible be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic
diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people
with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those
with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) for
encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of
medicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting good
practice in line with national requirements, NICE implementation and
utilisation of.
Action clinical letters and discharge
summaries, providing leadership on person centred medicine optimisation and
quality improvement. Assist with drug monitoring including high risk drug
monitoring, switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, Manage the
repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat
prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates, minimising clinical risk
and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
Experience of community pharmacy,
Primary or Secondary care would be beneficial to the role, we welcome
applications from newly qualified pharmacists. It is a requirement of the PCN
to complete the CPPE Pathway, The Clinical Pharmacist team will support you
throughout the pathway training, if not already completed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Accredited masters degree of pharmacy Degree (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Completed, or working towards, a Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway qualification (CPPE)
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Can work independently on a day-to-day basis and able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Email, telephone & online meetings)
- Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from education, training, and experience
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Good IT skills
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
Desirable
- Experience of using EMIS
- Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Accredited masters degree of pharmacy Degree (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Completed, or working towards, a Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway qualification (CPPE)
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Can work independently on a day-to-day basis and able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Email, telephone & online meetings)
- Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from education, training, and experience
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Good IT skills
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
Desirable
- Experience of using EMIS
- Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
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).