Clinical Pharmacist
Wokingham North PCN
The closing date is 14 March 2025
Job summary
WOKINGHAM NORTH PCN LTD
Clinical Pharmacist
Salary - Band 7
Location Wargrave Surgery, Berkshire fully onsite working.
An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist has arisen to join our Primary Care Network team.
Wokingham North PCN comprises 3 GP surgeries with a total population of 38,000 patients. We aspire to be a progressive and innovative team, working collaboratively to share best practice and to delivery excellent clinical pharmacy services to our patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual who enjoys challenging and varied work and who will share our vision of providing excellent patient care.
The successful applicant will ideally have completed their CPPE pathway and have experience in a PCN or Community Pharmacy bringing with them knowledge or experience in writing policies and completing audits.
They will be joining an established Pharmacy Team and will work closely with the wider clinical team to help deliver safe and high-quality medicines management for our patients. As well as having up to date clinical knowledge, preferred candidates will have an understanding of primary care medicines management. We are also seeking a commitment to addressing health inequalities and proactively reaching people from all communities.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. You will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management, undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy and oversight of our dispensary including policies and audits. You will have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
About us
Wokingham North PCN comprises 3 GP surgeries with a total population of 38,000 patients and we aspire to be a progressive and innovative team, working collaboratively to share best practice and to delivery excellent clinical pharmacy services to our patients
Date posted
27 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A5622-25-0006
Job locations
The Surgery
Victoria Road
Wargrave
Reading
RG10 8BP
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post Title: Clinical Pharmacist
Reports to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Partners and Practice Managers
Practices Covered: Wargrave Surgery
Base: Practice based on site working only.
Working Hours: 25 - 30 hours - 4 / 5 days per week - Flexibility on start and finish times
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
Maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
Assist in the writing and implementing of policies for our dispensary and overseeing audits and targets for the dispensary
JOB PURPOSE
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address social needs of patients in GP practices
Annual review of Dispensary policies in accordance with national guidance.
Annual oversite and reviews of dispensary DRUM Audit.
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorisation process by, reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
Support achievement of PQS and QOF targets.
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Working with the practice-based teams to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups.
Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practices
Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacies to align support for medicines adherence such as NMS
Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs
It is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out
Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
May have / working towards CPPE completion.
Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Complete appropriate Continuing Professional Education and Development and remain in good standing with pharmacist registration and regulation bodies.
Maintain appropriate professional insurance.
Responsibility for administration
To provide regular support and feedback to practices on prescribing action plans
To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems, including advice given and action taken.
To advise the primary health care team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
Communication
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. You do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Additional responsibilities for practice participating in the Dispensing Services Quality Scheme,
staff competency recording,
development and maintenance of standard operating procedures, and
recording and analysis of medication dispensing and prescribing significant events.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post Title: Clinical Pharmacist
Reports to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Partners and Practice Managers
Practices Covered: Wargrave Surgery
Base: Practice based on site working only.
Working Hours: 25 - 30 hours - 4 / 5 days per week - Flexibility on start and finish times
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
Maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
Assist in the writing and implementing of policies for our dispensary and overseeing audits and targets for the dispensary
JOB PURPOSE
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address social needs of patients in GP practices
Annual review of Dispensary policies in accordance with national guidance.
Annual oversite and reviews of dispensary DRUM Audit.
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorisation process by, reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
Support achievement of PQS and QOF targets.
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Working with the practice-based teams to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups.
Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practices
Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacies to align support for medicines adherence such as NMS
Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs
It is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out
Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
May have / working towards CPPE completion.
Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Complete appropriate Continuing Professional Education and Development and remain in good standing with pharmacist registration and regulation bodies.
Maintain appropriate professional insurance.
Responsibility for administration
To provide regular support and feedback to practices on prescribing action plans
To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems, including advice given and action taken.
To advise the primary health care team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
Communication
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. You do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Additional responsibilities for practice participating in the Dispensing Services Quality Scheme,
staff competency recording,
development and maintenance of standard operating procedures, and
recording and analysis of medication dispensing and prescribing significant events.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Thorough and pay attention to detail.
- Work well under pressure.
- Sensitivity and understanding.
- Customer service skills.
- Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
- Excellent verbal communication
- Maths knowledge. skills.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Completion of the CPPE pathway.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
- Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
- Complete appropriate Continuing Professional Education and Development and remain in good standing with pharmacist registration and regulation bodies.
- Maintain appropriate professional insurance.
Desirable
- May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
- May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Thorough and pay attention to detail.
- Work well under pressure.
- Sensitivity and understanding.
- Customer service skills.
- Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
- Excellent verbal communication
- Maths knowledge. skills.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Completion of the CPPE pathway.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
- Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
- Complete appropriate Continuing Professional Education and Development and remain in good standing with pharmacist registration and regulation bodies.
- Maintain appropriate professional insurance.
Desirable
- May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
- May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Wokingham North PCN
Address
The Surgery
Victoria Road
Wargrave
Reading
RG10 8BP
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Wokingham North PCN
Address
The Surgery
Victoria Road
Wargrave
Reading
RG10 8BP
Employer's website
For questions about the job, contact:
Charlotte Kidd
Date posted
27 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A5622-25-0006
Job locations
The Surgery
Victoria Road
Wargrave
Reading
RG10 8BP