Primary Care Clinical Advisor - Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication:

• Communicate highly complex or sensitive information to therapy staff and primary care leads in a language that is understandable to them. This may include imparting unwelcome news eg. Impact of service constraints, performance issues.
• Use advanced communication skills to present and represent the AHP Directorate at a Conference level.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with Medical, Nursing, Therapy, private and voluntary staff to ensure service development is co-ordinated and linked with other service development plans.
• Provide expert information to managers regarding the role and value of therapies in the treatment of people across Primary Care, Health & Social care, education, housing, acute, secondary care and community pathways.
• Initiate, plan, organise and chair meetings, which have a clear purpose and outcome, such as Clinical Network Forums and Focus Groups.
• Use advanced and innovative interpersonal skills of negotiation, persuasion and conflict resolution in the development of the service and individuals.
• Use Information Technology to communicate via email, social media, webinars, podcasts and to obtain and input data to systems.
• Provide the training hub, ICB, NHSE - WTE with the information as required to use to ensure effective communication up to Board level eg. Plans, presentation, papers, reports
• Represent Primary Care in a highly professional manner, using effective communication skills when in a public or professional forum
• Promote sound working relationships within Primary Care and across the ICB within Lancashire and South Cumbria, Universities and other external agencies

Training and Development:

• Work collaboratively with the Training Hub, NHSE-WTE and the ICB to identify areas for improvement to ensure that profession specific staff within Primary Care have access to appropriate professional development and leadership training opportunities.
• Alongside Training Hub, NHSE-WTE and the ICB, the post-holder will identify the access to profession specific staff and their access to an appropriate level of clinical supervision and personal/professional development.
• Inform the workforce planning process for primary care to ensure the profession specific staff have access to appropriately trained workforce, optimising opportunities for apprenticeships and other access routes to training.
• Lead the development of a prioritised programme of clinical training and development for profession specific staff members throughout primary care.
• Develop and maintain close working links with higher education institutes.
• Maintain own professional registration and competency to practice at an advanced/expert level, taking responsibility for ensuring own knowledge and skills are up-to-date, by engaging in and directing continuous professional development, including maintenance of a CPD portfolio.
• Alongside Primary Care leads, support the maintenance of professional registration and competency for practice, using continuous professional development and lifelong learning.
• Attend Mandatory Training as required.
• Actively participate in internal and external post-registration training to the equivalent of Masters Level, maintaining and developing advanced practice skills.
• Support audit and research activities across the service.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Work at all times within the Code of Professional Conduct defined by the relevant professional body.
• Meet the requirements of registration of the professional body ie. Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work.
• Actively promote and ensure that all aspects of the service offered is of a high clinical standard and evidence based, in-line with professional codes of conduct, local policies and procedures.
• Take responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and others and to comply at all times to the requirements of Health & Safety regulations.
• Oversee and support staff within legal aspects of their professional assessment and interventions.

Organisational Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the development and guidance of a robust training and development strategy for profession specific staff across Primary care.
• Be responsible for the planning and organisation of professional forums.
• Advise Primary Care and the Training hub on the service development required to meet local and National policies and priorities.
• Implement innovative strategies to ensure the recruitment, induction, retention and redeployment of high calibre clinical, support and temporary staff.
• Ensure National professional standards are maintained.
• Keep up-to-date with clinical/professional developments, analysing current research, implementing changes in practice accordingly.
• Be responsible for collating and interpreting statistical information (as required), in order to monitor service delivery and plan future service development.
• Implement quality initiative and service improvements in line with best practice, available evidence, legislation and local/national guidance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Must be a Registered Health Care Professional with a relevant professional body.

Experience

Essential

• Must be a Senior Health Care Clinician - with either direct or indirect experience or knowledge of primary care.

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

Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative

Address

Moor Lane Mills

Moor Lane

Lancaster

Lancashire

LA1 1QD

Employer's website

https://mbpcc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)