Leeds GP Confederation

Professional Lead for Pharmacy

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Job summary

This role will involve the leading of the clinical pharmacy team within the Leeds GP Confederation. The successful applicant will provide all aspects of professional leadership to all members of the pharmacy team. This will include the assurance of quality and patient safety, together with individual support to team members. Engagement and close working with the wider Leeds GP Confederation team will be an essential aspect of this role ensuring quality, safe, evidence-based and cost-effective services are provided. Additional aspects of this role will be to support the Leeds GP Confederation in other aspects of service development where pharmacy related services are being discussed and developed.

This post will require enthusiasm, self-motivation and commitment to forge excellent communication between primary care/PCN, community and secondary care teams and drive the pharmacy team forward. The senior clinical pharmacist who is successful in this role will provide leadership to all pharmacists within the Leeds GP Confederation in addition to line management of any pharmacists employed or engaged working to support the work of the GP Confederation.

Main duties of the job

Actively works towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and out with the organisation.

Fosters and maintains strong links with all services across the Leeds Health Economy

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Uses negotiation and influencing skills to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders

To lead and coordinate clinical pharmacy services within the Leeds GP Confederation to improve quality of care, personalised care and patient experience.

To lead on Enhanced Access Pharmacy service in Leeds

To provide clinical leadership to ensure high quality and cost-effective prescribing.

To identify, plan, organise, and co-ordinate the Leeds GP Confederations role in the implementation of medicines optimisation initiatives, objectives and complex changes at GP practice, PCN and service level to bring about quality improvements in prescribing behaviour and better outcomes for patients including reducing patient harm & improving medication safety.

To maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process.

About us

The Leeds GP Confederation has three purposes:

Supporting practice resilience and PCN developmentWe provide expert resource for individual practices in the city to remain viable and resilient, as well as supporting the collective development of primary care networks. Our data, tools, facilitation, and guidance all help you maximise your impact.
Being a voice for primary care in LeedsLeeds GP Confederation acts as a single, unified voice for general practice across Leeds. We do this by firstly gathering and representing local general practice views. Secondly, we provide a range of ways for practices and PCNs to contribute to priorities in the Leeds place-based partnership arrangements.
Delivering services & initiatives Finally, we host at-scale NHS contracts and deliver training and education programmes. Our wealth of experience working with local partners and delivering high quality services means we can provide practices with additional patient access. In turn, this makes better use of NHS resources and means we can reinvest any profits back into local general practice.

For further information, please go to:www.leedsgpconfederation.org.uk

Date posted

20 December 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0348-23-0010

Job locations

Leeds GP Confederation, Building 3 White Rose Office Park

Millshaw Park Lane

Leeds

LS11 0DL

Job description

Job responsibilities

To analyse and interpret complex information and communicate this information using a variety of methods to patients, carers and other health professionals to promote the safe, high quality & cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions.

To provide specialised advice and support in risk management, clinical governance issues and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, patient safety advisory notices and other established good practices to manage and minimise risk.

Regularly use independent non-medical prescribing qualification within the service model to improve patient care and medicines optimisation where appropriate.

Line management and leadership of pharmacists, setting direction, objectives, ensuring all team members have clarity of purpose. Dealing with all employee/worker relations issues for direct reports e.g. disciplinary, grievance, sickness, appraisal.

Formal and informal teaching of pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, both those who report to the post holder and others

Produce timely reports and papers, updating databases on benefits/outcomes of services, using relevant appropriate IT packages where required including excel and PresQuipp. This should be carried out to agreed criteria and plans developed for correcting mitigating circumstances if targets not achieved.

To lead and develop clinical audit, including relevant quality improvement work.

To plan and organise own workload, including project work and support for members of the Clinical pharmacy team, multidisciplinary team (MDT), PCN, practice team, Local Care Partnerships, patients, carers, etc within their scope of practice.

To liaise with Operational Team Leaders, recruitment and administration teams within LGPC as needed to help deliver and improve pharmacy services.

Liaise with prescribing colleagues across Leeds in primary, community and secondary care to ensure consistency with Leeds-wide prescribing strategies including working with secondary care to reduce the impact of inappropriate secondary care influenced prescribing.

Attend and present highly complex pharmacy and medicines information to; MDT, Local Care Partnerships, Members Meetings, Prescribing Leads Meetings, PCN Meetings, where there may be contention or negotiation required in order to successfully convey information.

To attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance

To deputise for Senior members of the team, as appropriate.

To being open to contribute to future Virtual Ward or other new service development

To support the service, prescribers and practices in maintaining financial balance

Ensures the effective and efficient use of resources within their own sphere of responsibility.

To work to ensure best value for money and avoidance of waste in relation to medicines and contribute to the reduction in fraud related to medicines consistent with the post holders position in the organisation.

Manage allocated financial responsibility for a delegated budget in line with financial rules and will be an authorised signatory where required.

It is the responsibility of each member of staff to maintain confidentiality at all times.

Staff must be aware of and adhere to the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act and to ensure their own safety and the safety of colleagues and patients.

Mandatory training requirements that are relevant to the post must be decided during Personal Development Review and a training plan developed.

Staff should be aware of their individual responsibilities under the Equal Opportunities Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy.

Manages Self

Maintains the highest standards of conduct and integrity within organisation adhering to relevant Codes of Conduct.

Participate in the organisations appraisal system, matching organisational aims with individual objectives.

Takes responsibility for own and others health and safety in the working environment.

Complies with all organisational and statutory requirements.

Ensures that a professional service and image is maintained at all times.

Leads in line with agreed values.

Equality & Diversity

Able to adjust communication effectively to meet the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders

Well-developed understanding of equality, diversity and human rights issues and an ability to communicate these clearly to a broad range of stakeholders

Actively delivers projects that address inequality and/or improve equality outcomes for stakeholders and /or workforce.

This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It may be subject to change in the light of developing organisational and service needs and wherever possible change will follow consultation with the post holder.