Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinically, the post holder will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases undertaking clinical medication reviews to support the proactive management of complex polypharmacy patients. This will include, but not be limited to, elderly people in care homes, patients with multiple co-morbidities and those with learning disability and autism.

As an independent prescriber, the postholder will provide clinical leadership in the delivery of person-centred medicines optimisation, helping to support standardised approaches to care across the PCN and forging strong relationships with both specialist and community pharmacists to promote system-wide medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist will coordinate the workload and allocation of workload of PCN Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the network. The post-holder will provide day-to-day support to team and practices in respect to management of medication and prescription queries. They will support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safe prescribing providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, whilst proactively and reactively addressing both public and social care needs of the network population.

The post-holder will directly provide the duties outlined in the Job Description in addition to any other tasks deemed relevant to the role and providing support and supervision to both Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in the delegation of relevant responsibilities as appropriate.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Audit and quality improvement, including the review and analysis of data; risk/issue management and addressing quality/performance in practice
• Digital skills, including ability to access and competently use clinical systems and electronic transfer of prescriptions
• Strong clinical leadership, management, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to apply effective clinical judgement in the prioritisation and decision-making aspects of the role

Desirable

• Clinical research skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified from CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway
• Hold an independent prescribing qualification
• Knowledge and awareness of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures relevant to the role

Desirable

• Masters or ACP qualification
• Leadership and management qualification
• Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care Network arrangements and their contribution to the NHS 10-Year Plan
• Knowledge, awareness and experience of brief intervention and referral pathways that provide opportunistic advice and support for preventable illness and/or long-term conditions receptive to lifestyle/pharmacological support

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience
• Previous experience of leading and support a team
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience in conducting medication reviews
• Experience in developing and implementing new policies and processes to improve the quality and safety of practice, in the context of medicines optimisation
• Experience in supporting common acute and long-term conditions
• Experience in working in a care home setting in the capacity of providing patient-centred medicines optimisation support.

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

East Cleveland PCN Ltd

Address

Hillside Practice

Windermere Drive

Skelton-in-cleveland

Saltburn-by-the-sea

Cleveland

TS12 2TG

Employer's website

https://www.eastclevelandpcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)