Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to deliver medicines
optimisation services within our
Primary Care Network (PCN) and to support development and delivery of a new
pharmacist led spirometry service.
The successful candidate will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary
team in a patient facing role to promote high-quality prescribing and optimise
the management of long-term conditions across the PCN. The role will include
providing spirometry service along with the comprehensive clinical services to
complement testing.
Main duties of the job
Responsible to: Clinical Director, Associate Clinical Director PCN Pharmacist Lead, Practice Manager
Accountable to: Hastings and St Leonards PCN
Salary: £ 42,840- £57,830 a year depending on previous experience and postgraduate qualifications.
Job Purpose
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in all aspects of medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews and diagnoses and management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with direct patient contact,and may include contributing to:
- Diagnosis and management of other long-term conditions
- Minor illness
- Management of medicines on transfer of care
- Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
- Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.
- Action acute prescription requests
- Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
- Contributing to achievement of The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), The Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) indicators and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
- Undertaking clinical audit
- Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost-effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial).
About us
Hastings and St. Leonards Primary Care Network is a large PCN comprising 9 GP practices that serve a population of 100,000 patients. The network team works closely with each of the constituent practices to provide collaborative services, resolve shared problems and explore shared opportunities. The PCN team includes a dedicated infrastructure of Clinical Directors, Practice Representatives, Operational and Financial Management and Clinical and Non-Clinical Service teams including Covid Vaccination, Health Coaching, Clinical Pharmacy, First Contact Physiotherapy, Social Prescribing and Occupational Therapy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Patient-Facing Structured Medication
Review
- Diagnoses and Management of Asthma and Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Medicines Quality Improvement
- Medicines Safety
- Leadership and Management
- Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting
Ailments
- Patient-Facing Medicines Support
- Management of Medicines at Change of Care
Setting
- Medicine Information to Practice Staff
and Patients
- Drug Monitoring
- Signposting
- Repeat Prescribing
- Service Development
- Information Management
- Education and Training
- Care Quality Commission
- Public Health
- Collaborative Working
- Professional Development
- Research and Evaluation
- Health and Safety/Risk Management
- Special Working Conditions
- Equality and Diversity
- Respect for Patient Confidentiality
(Full Job Description attached)
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Patient-Facing Structured Medication
Review
- Diagnoses and Management of Asthma and Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Medicines Quality Improvement
- Medicines Safety
- Leadership and Management
- Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting
Ailments
- Patient-Facing Medicines Support
- Management of Medicines at Change of Care
Setting
- Medicine Information to Practice Staff
and Patients
- Drug Monitoring
- Signposting
- Repeat Prescribing
- Service Development
- Information Management
- Education and Training
- Care Quality Commission
- Public Health
- Collaborative Working
- Professional Development
- Research and Evaluation
- Health and Safety/Risk Management
- Special Working Conditions
- Equality and Diversity
- Respect for Patient Confidentiality
(Full Job Description attached)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. ICBs)
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
- Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern, knowing when to escalate
- Able to work under-pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with recommended agreed course of action, breaking down significant barriers
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Be able to work well independently and as a team member
- Should be accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Understand the principles of research governance
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Self Motivation
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Holds or working towards an Independent prescribing course
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Postgraduate Diploma in Respiratory Medicine
- Completion of Spirometry Training
- Completion of CPPE 18-month Primary care pharmacy education pathway
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. ICBs)
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
- Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern, knowing when to escalate
- Able to work under-pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with recommended agreed course of action, breaking down significant barriers
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Be able to work well independently and as a team member
- Should be accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Understand the principles of research governance
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Self Motivation
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Holds or working towards an Independent prescribing course
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Postgraduate Diploma in Respiratory Medicine
- Completion of Spirometry Training
- Completion of CPPE 18-month Primary care pharmacy education pathway
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
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).
