SW Healthcare

Care Home Team Clinical Pharmacist, Droitwich Ombersley and Rurals PCN

The closing date is 26 June 2025

Job summary

Droitwich, Ombersley & The Rurals PCN consists of 7 practices, based across South Worcestershire, serving over 56,000 patients. We aim to offer and deliver excellent, safe, co-ordinated, high quality patient care. Continuously learning, evolving and implementing new models of care, to create inclusion and reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.

We work hard to promote a culture where staff feel engaged, valued and recognised by the organisation and the others they work with.

We have an Additional Roles team of 36 healthcare professionals and are looking for individuals with a passion to deliver excellent service in General Practice and in the local communities.

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Independent Prescriber Clinical Pharmacist to join our established multidisciplinary care home team working across the care homes within our PCN. We are looking for someone to take responsibility for leading on all of the pharmacy and medication related aspects of the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Network Direct Enhanced Service Specification and to support in delivering the highest quality of care to this complex set of patients. You will need to work closely with the care home pharmacy technician, the wider PCN pharmacy team and other local stake holders to provide high quality and efficient pharmacy care home support.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide advice and support on all prescribing and medication related issues for our care home residents. When clinically appropriate, you will be expected to implement and action changes to the patients medical prescribing record as directed by primary, secondary or community care; working at all times within professional limits. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of these patients.

About us

Vertis Health is a fast-growing provider of community-based healthcare services to NHS patients within South Worcestershire. The organisation utilises the excellent clinical expertise that already resides within the local NHS environment and harnesses it with efficient administration pathways to provide patients with more convenient and accessible services. We hope that by doing this we will not only deliver pathway improvements to patients but also go some way to relieving the growing volume pressures that are being experienced within local hospitals and GP practices.

DOR PCN is a member of Vertis Health.

Date posted

05 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Pro rata for part time employees, dependant on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0158-25-0045

Job locations

Droitwich Medical Centre

Ombersley Street East

Droitwich Spa

Worcestershire

WR9 8RD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

Lead, deliver and evaluate a specialist care home pharmacy service by providing in-depth, patient focused Structured Medication Reviews to the care home residents under the care of our PCN care home team.

Support with care home visits and ward rounds as required by the care home team and in line with local need.

Promote the safe, high quality and cost-effective use of medicines in care homes.

Provide specialist pharmaceutical advice in complex situations, where advice may be challenged, to health care professionals across the PCN and to care home staff.

Communicate highly complex medicines related information with residents and or their carers who may have complex care and communication needs.

Work with the care home team to develop and co-ordinate discharge pathways for our care home residents to ensure all patients have appropriate and timely medicines optimisation post-discharge and suitable pharmaceutical management plans moving forwards.

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.

Ensure prescribing and administration of medicines and disposal of medicinal waste follows appropriate legislation and health and safety policies

To support the PCN in ensuring the Network Impact and investment Fund and Clinical Excellence Investment Framework targets are met and maximum reimbursable achieved where possible.

Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through structured medication review.

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues across the network to foster good working relationships and improve their understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the care home team as needed

Oversee the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, including reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Ensure adherence to the Hereford & Worcestershire formulary and the optimizeRx prescribing support software to improve the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Action any relevant medication safety alerts for care home residents in line with local guidance and in liaison with the practice pharmacy teams

Lead on supporting the care homes in the safe and timely monitoring of any high-risk medications in line with appropriate local and national guidance

Lead and develop clinical audit relating to the use of medicines in care homes and for care home SMRs

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

Work with Commissioning organisations and the PCN to comply with local medicines optimisation schemes and projects

Deliver medicines information and training to members of the care home team, local practices within the PCN, care home team members and other local stakeholders as needed.