Hinckley And Bosworth Medical Alliance Ltd

PCN Pharmacist

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Job summary

To deliver a Clinical Pharmacy Service to our member GP Practices defined within Primary Care Network geographical locations, as part of an established PCN Pharmacy Team.

You will be working for an established GP Federation, which supports 3 Primary Care Networks incorporating 12 GP Practices, that is actively recruiting clinical pharmacists to add to the already successful Clinical Pharmacist team in place. You will be working across Hinckley and Bosworth, and be part of a successful Federation and Primary Care Network.

Relevant experience of service delivery within the NHS, working in, or closely with, general practice. Involving & empowering a range of clinical professionals to make healthcare services more cost effective & better quality, excellent influencing and relationship skills with colleagues

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who has:

Excellent communication & presentation skills
An ability to work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team environment.
An ability to engage effectively, commanding respect from a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, patients and the public.
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, registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership, Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Holds a prescribing qualification (desirable)
May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions.

About us

You will be working within a successful GP Federation comprising 12 member practices across the Hinckley and Bosworth locality.

We already have an established team of 14 Pharmacists, supported by 3 Senior Pharmacists, that we are looking to expand. We have structures in place to support Pharmacists with training and development, and have created a network to enable our Pharmacists to share learning and identified good practice across the team.

We see a real potential to be actively involved in the care of patients beyond the traditional surgery front door with a real drive, commitment, passion, determination and ambition for the future, ensuring that the patients of Hinckley & Bosworth can access high quality, responsive integrated care.

Our Visions and Values are:

Creating accessible patient centred healthcare
Delivering better healthcare, closer to home
Enhancing patient experience
Working collaboratively with local services
Improving lives of patients, carers and practice staff in Hinckley & Bosworth

Date posted

24 May 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,000 to £48,000 a year Higher rate for Independent Prescribers

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0055-22-3234

Job locations

Willow View,Field Farm Business Ctre

Hinckley Road,

Sapcote

LE9 4LH

Hinckley & Bosworth Medical alliance

Field Farm Business Centre

Sapcote

Leicestershire

le9 4lh

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose/Summary

To participate in the provision of a Clinical Pharmacy Service to our member GP Practices defined within Primary Care Network geographical location;

Provision of routine clinical medicines reviews whilst addressing the public health and social needs of patient population.

To review and reduce were possible inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through timely and effective clinical medication reviews.

Reconcile patients 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

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation 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

Manage Primary Care Network practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines

Run clinics where appropriate to meet the needs of the Primary Care Network e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics , diabetic reviews etc

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews-

Provide medicines information and training to Primary Care Network healthcare professionals and admin staff

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines

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)

Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately