Senior/Lead PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

To review and reduce were possible inappropriate polypharmacy 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

Leadership:

Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace

Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision

Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service

Reviews last years progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others

Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals

Management:

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice

Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Education, Training & Development:

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service and demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity

Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice

Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Independent prescribing qualification
• CPPE Pathway

Experience

Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Demonstrates use of appropriate commuanication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other
• NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
• 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
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• 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
• Minimum of two years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated, within a practice portfolio.
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• 2 years primary care experience

Desirable

• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Experience as a lead pharmacist
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Rochdale Health Alliance

Address

The Old Post Office

No 2 The Esplanade

Rochdale

Greater Manchester

OL16 1AE

Employer's website

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