Burmantofts, Harehills and Richmond Hill PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical Pharmacists to come on board and provide care for patients as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team.

The successful candidate will work alongside the current PCN Pharmacy team which consists of 2 Lead Pharmacists, 1 Senior Pharmacist, 4 Clinical Pharmacists, and 2 Pharmacy technicians. The post holder will be expected to provide care and support to patients registered across all 12 member practices within the PCN and rotating support through care homes. We cover a diverse population of patients with a variety of long-term condition needs. You will be working with a multi skilled and proactive PCN team to deliver a safe and effective service, developing new ways of working and clinical pathways in accordance with key local and national clinical standards.

If you are an enthusiastic team player with a professional approach to your work, we'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to get in contact with Aamina or Jaya to discuss the role.

These roles are exciting, with a real opportunity to develop and use your clinical pharmacy skills in a patient-facing environment. SEL GP Group is the ideal employer for these roles as you will benefit from peer support and mentoring from a team of Pharmacists and technicians.

Please note all PCN pharmacy staff are required to enrol on (or be exempted from) the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.

The PCN pharmacy team aims to provide the best patient care possible. You will work in a patient-facing role, supporting patients to manage long-term conditions effectively through structured medication reviews. Pharmacists work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and provide support to practice staff and patients with prescription/medication queries, care homes, medicines policies and procedures, QOF/local incentive schemes, prescribing processes, audit and medicines safety.

You need to be a non-medical prescriber or prepared to work towards this. You will be a great team player, but also capable of independent, autonomous work. You will have excellent inter-personal skills and some experience of developing new services. You will have excellent communication skills and be committed to providing exceptional patient-care.

We welcome applications from trainee pharmacists about to join the register this summer as well as those with experience in any sector.

SEL GP Group employs PCN posts on behalf of our seven member PCNs, one of which is Burmantofts, Harehills and Richmond Hill. We employ an established team of PCN pharmacists and technicians and are well placed to support you in this new role.

SEL GP Group is the ideal employer for these roles as you will benefit from substantial peer support with an extended team of pharmacists and technicians. You will be supported with mentoring from the Head of Clinical Pharmacy and our Education & Training Pharmacist, who provide regular peer support meetings involving all the PCN pharmacists and technicians, as well as a separate technician meeting helping to build relationships and learn from each other's experiences. Additionally, you will be part of the citywide Leeds GP Pharmacy Network, which has 100+ members.

Please visit our PCN website for further information about the services we provide. https://www.bhrprimarycarenetwork.co.uk/

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of colleagues from the NHS and other organisations and with patients using appropriate media including good written, and oral communication skills
• 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
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• 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
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
• Demonstrates leadership experience and previous experience of supervising and mentoring more junior staff
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Holds an independent prescribing qualification and has experiencing of working as an autonomous independent prescriber.
• Successful completion of the CPPE Primary care education pathway or holds equivalence or exemption certificate
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Desirable

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Qualified pharmacist demonstrably established as practicing at an advanced level, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Able to 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
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Understand the principles of research governance

Professional registration

Essential

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a practice-based or PCN-based clinical pharmacist
• Qualified pharmacist demonstrably established as practicing at an advanced level, 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
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups

Desirable

• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations

Other

Essential

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Adaptable
• Work effectively independently and as a team player
• Self-motivated
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Ability to work in different locations and help to provide cover for absent colleagues, and to take part in an extended working day in line with other general practice colleagues
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes

Desirable

• Immunisation status

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).