Job summary
Mid Chiltern Primary Care Network
Salary: From £44,500 WTE dependant on experience
Post working hours: 37.5 hours per week including network core hours
NHS Pension
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
Please visit our website and find out more about our PCN, the staff that work for us and the services we provide to our local community-About Us - Mid Chiltern PCN- www.midchilternpcn.nhs.uk
Mid Chiltern Primary Care Network have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join their dynamic team.
Main duties of the job
Mid Chiltern Primary Care Network have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join their dynamic team.
We are looking for someone enthusiastic about providing high quality care to our patients and becoming an integral part of our growing clinical pharmacy team.
The Clinical Pharmacist will be a patient facing role with plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care, and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role.
You will be provided support, mentorship and training by our Senior Clinical Pharmacist and also be assigned a GP supervision time as well.
Requirements of role:
- GPhC
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Successfully attainment of CPPE via Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
- Experience of Primary Care and Primary Care Networks
The post holder will benefit from:
- Regular supervision from a senior pharmacist
- Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
- Progressing to achieving their independent prescribing qualification
- Being part of a friendly and forward thinking PCN team.
About us
About FedBucks
FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 47 GP practices covering a population of over 500,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services.
As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting general practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
- Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
- Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackling inequalities.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
- Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
- Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackling inequalities.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of Primary Care and Primary Care Networks
- Member of RPS
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications eg clinical, community, therapeutics or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
- Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling
- Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work
- Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
- Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
- Experience in undertaking clinical audit
Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
- Successfully attainment of CPPE via Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist
- Effective interpersonal, communication both written and oral presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
- Ability to communicate medicines and service-related information to decision makers at all levels and have advice challenged
- Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation for long periods
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines, often with frequent interruptions and urgent requests
- Ability to motivate people and facilitate change
- Ability to define, collate, analyse and interpret data
- Able to utilise databases and information technology, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation packages effectively
- Ability to communicate information to patients and carers in an appropriate manner, using well developed empathy skills
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of Primary Care and Primary Care Networks
- Member of RPS
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications eg clinical, community, therapeutics or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
- Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling
- Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work
- Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
- Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
- Experience in undertaking clinical audit
Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
- Successfully attainment of CPPE via Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist
- Effective interpersonal, communication both written and oral presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
- Ability to communicate medicines and service-related information to decision makers at all levels and have advice challenged
- Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation for long periods
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines, often with frequent interruptions and urgent requests
- Ability to motivate people and facilitate change
- Ability to define, collate, analyse and interpret data
- Able to utilise databases and information technology, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation packages effectively
- Ability to communicate information to patients and carers in an appropriate manner, using well developed empathy skills
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).
