Job summary
Colne Valley Primary Care Network has an exciting opportunity for an experienced, hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network. You will be based at The Pump House Surgery, Earls Colne but will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a part time basis, for 30 hours per week on 5 days, with flexibility to work outside of core office hours.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for implementing an effective medicines management system.
- Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines & medicine information
- Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review.
- Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation & quality improvement.
- Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation & adult immunisation programmes.
- Processing specialist treatment letters.
- Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
- Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
- Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits & implementing change.
- Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, & end-of-life patients.
- Reviewing daily pathology results & act on results.
- Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, communitypharmacy & care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
- Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research withmedicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists
- Being part of a professional clinical network & having access to appropriate clinicalsupervision
- Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates
About us
The Colne Valley Primary Care Network is a collaboration of six GP practices serving approximately 54,000 patients, from the Kelvedon, Finchingfield, Halstead, Earls Colne, Coggeshall, and Hedingham areas.
We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme, remote working where appropriate and minimum 33 days annual leave FTE.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information
about this role, please see the attached job specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information
about this role, please see the attached job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this.
- Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in primary care.
- Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
- Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions.
- Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals.
- Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate.
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
- Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
- Understand the need for patient confidentiality.
- EMIS / SystmOne / Ardens /Vision user skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this.
- Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in primary care.
- Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
- Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions.
- Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals.
- Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate.
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
- Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
- Understand the need for patient confidentiality.
- EMIS / SystmOne / Ardens /Vision user 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).
