Job summary
Mersey Internal Audit (MIAA) is adverting the above role on behalf of Southport and Formby Health Ltd.
We are looking to recruit to the post
of Clinical Pharmacist, to work within our Primary Care Network
multidisciplinary healthcare team.
The post holder is a pharmacist, who
acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a
team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by
a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
The post holder will work as part of a
multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take
responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and
undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with
complex polypharmacy.
CPPE is commissioned by Health Education England to deliver training to pharmacy professionals working in primary care as part of the primary care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
Please note the interview date will be Tuesday 6th September. We are also open to applications for this role on a part-time basis
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide primary
support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication
queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute
prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and
systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice
while addressing both public
and social care needs of patient in the
GP practice(s).
The post holder will provide clinical
leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some
aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the
practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill
mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help
manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and
operational efficiencies, so requires
motivation and passion to deliver an
excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to
develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber.
About us
We are a GP owned company created to enhance the delivery of
healthcare services to people living in Southport and Formby. Our services are
provided locally, meaning fewer visits to large, busy hospitals and faster
treatment in a convenient location. We’re also flexible, offering extended hours access to a GP during
evenings and weekends – recognising that sometimes getting to a daytime
appointment just isn’t possible.
Our member
practices share resources to ensure that the services we offer are the best
they can be. Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown
and people are living longer, often with long term conditions such as diabetes
and heart disease. Primary Care Networks (PCNs) were created to meet the
growing needs of patients, with GP Practices working with community, mental
health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local
areas.
Southport and
Formby PCN is one of the largest PCNs, with 16 GP Practices caring for a
population of around 125,000 people. The services we offer include Enhanced
Health in Care Homes, Cancer Link Support, Social Prescribing and Clinical Pharmacists.
On top of joining
an amazing team of people all dedicated to helping the wider community, we can
offer you an excellent benefits package as well as a commitment to staff
development and wellbeing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Working with GPs and patients to address medicine adherence.
- Reviewing patients on complex medicine regimens.
- Triaging and managing common ailments.
- Responding to acute medicine requests.
- Managing and prescribing for long-term conditions (often with the practice nurse)
- Holding minor ailment clinics.
- Prescription management.
- Dealing with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital.
- Helping the practice deliver on the patients recently discharged from hospital.
- Helping the practice deliver on the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) and Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) agenda and enhanced services.
- Delivering repeat prescription reviews.
- Being the point of contact for all medicine-related queries.
- Overseeing the practice’s repeat prescription policy.
- Taking over clinical medicines reviews from GPs.
- Audit and education.
- Medicines management.
- In dispensing practices, pharmacists can take responsibility for the business management of the dispensary.
- Please see attached for full Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Working with GPs and patients to address medicine adherence.
- Reviewing patients on complex medicine regimens.
- Triaging and managing common ailments.
- Responding to acute medicine requests.
- Managing and prescribing for long-term conditions (often with the practice nurse)
- Holding minor ailment clinics.
- Prescription management.
- Dealing with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital.
- Helping the practice deliver on the patients recently discharged from hospital.
- Helping the practice deliver on the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) and Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) agenda and enhanced services.
- Delivering repeat prescription reviews.
- Being the point of contact for all medicine-related queries.
- Overseeing the practice’s repeat prescription policy.
- Taking over clinical medicines reviews from GPs.
- Audit and education.
- Medicines management.
- In dispensing practices, pharmacists can take responsibility for the business management of the dispensary.
- Please see attached for full Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Desirable
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- 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)
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
Other
Essential
- Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Desirable
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- 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)
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
Other
Essential
- Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).