Job summary
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist
Responsible to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Location: Washington PCN
Salary: £47,327.95
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours / Sessions: Full time, 37.5 Hours
Main duties of the job
Working within your professional and clinical
boundaries as part of an established multi-disciplinary team to provide
expertise in all areas of medicine related practice in a patient facing role.
Working in partnership with various organisations,
to improve the quality and safety of care offered to our patients. Using
independent prescribing to support better access to medicines, clinical
medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews,
tackling polypharmacy and manage long term conditions.
To manage medicines on transfer of care and systems
for safer prescribing including manage repeat prescriptions, acute prescription
requests and antibiotic stewardship, while addressing both the public health
and social care needs of patients across the primary care network practices.
To ensure that PCN practices integrate with
community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient
outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
This 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.
About us
Sunderland GP Alliance is owned by the GP Practices of Sunderland and helps GPs work collaboratively for the benefit of patients and staff. We are a not-for-profit organisation, ensuring any surplus is reinvested back into better services for patients.
By working together, our General Practice community is able to provide innovative services across the city, and work collectively with other key system partners. Youll find great examples of this approach across our website including information on ourEnhanced Access service,Clinical Pharmacist provision, andECG service.
We also run a number of practices where we aim to provide the best possible services for patients. All of our practices (where inspected) have been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
The focus of the post holders work will depend on
the qualifications, skills and experience of the individual and the needs of
the PCN Practice(s) both of which may develop over time. Therefore, the breadth
of duties are outlined in the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
The focus of the post holders work will depend on
the qualifications, skills and experience of the individual and the needs of
the PCN Practice(s) both of which may develop over time. Therefore, the breadth
of duties are outlined in the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- The post holder must either have completed the CPPE primary care pathway or be willing to work towards it
- UK driving licence
- UK work permit (if required)
Desirable
- Clinical diploma or other post graduate qualification
- Independent prescriber or working towards qualification
- Minimum of two years post qualification experience
Experience
Essential
- Appreciation of General Practice and working alongside General practice staff
Desirable
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare including clinical audit
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience
- Direct experience of primary care
Motivation and Skills
Essential
- Ability to motivate self and other members of the team
- Drive and determination to promote and support the role of pharmacy staff in General Practice
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
- Able to influence, motivate and persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Good IT skills
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately;
- Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
Desirable
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issue in core areas for long term conditions
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel and holds business car insurance
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Immunisation status
- Understands the principles of equality and diversity
- Commitment to addressing health inequalities and patient empowerment
Desirable
- Hold up to date safeguarding adult and children level three training
- Hold up to date Information Governance training
- Hold up to date basic life support training
- The above will be provided as mandatory training if not already held.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- The post holder must either have completed the CPPE primary care pathway or be willing to work towards it
- UK driving licence
- UK work permit (if required)
Desirable
- Clinical diploma or other post graduate qualification
- Independent prescriber or working towards qualification
- Minimum of two years post qualification experience
Experience
Essential
- Appreciation of General Practice and working alongside General practice staff
Desirable
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare including clinical audit
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience
- Direct experience of primary care
Motivation and Skills
Essential
- Ability to motivate self and other members of the team
- Drive and determination to promote and support the role of pharmacy staff in General Practice
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
- Able to influence, motivate and persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Good IT skills
- 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
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately;
- Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
Desirable
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issue in core areas for long term conditions
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel and holds business car insurance
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Immunisation status
- Understands the principles of equality and diversity
- Commitment to addressing health inequalities and patient empowerment
Desirable
- Hold up to date safeguarding adult and children level three training
- Hold up to date Information Governance training
- Hold up to date basic life support training
- The above will be provided as mandatory training if not already held.
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
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).
