Job summary
Clinical Pharmacist Primary Care
£47,500 - £56,700 a year depending on experience, yearly salary increments, NHS Pension
Working Hours: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Location: Ashton GP Service, Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 7SR, Gordon Street Medical Centre, Ashton Under Lyne,OL6 6PR and Guide Bridge Medical Practice, Audenshaw, M34 5HY.
gtd healthcare is one of the
largest NHS commissioned Primary and Urgent care providers in North West
England.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to join our practice teams and provide care for our patients
at Ashton GP Service, Gordon Street Medical Centre and Guide Bridge Medical Practice.
The Clinical
Pharmacist will be part of
a busy and proactive team working alongside clinical and non-clinical colleagues to innovate and progress the clinical pharmacy service, enhancing patient care and outcomes.
The successful candidate will participate in and support the Deputy Lead Pharmacist, medicines optimisation to deliver change for the benefit of patients and/or the organisation.
You will be a key member of the senior clinical team being proactive in providing safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in their care.
Main duties of the job
- The successful applicant will be a registered pharmacist with a non-medical prescribing qualification (V300).
- You will provide support to other clinicians with regards to prescription and medication queries/repeat prescriptions, and will demonstrate clinical reasoning and critical thinking, as well as the undertaking of comprehensive structured medication reviews and assessing/processing repeat prescription requests. The role may also involve the management of long term conditions and diagnosed or undiagnosed undifferentiated illness within your scope of practice.
- You will ensure that services integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. There will be an element of clinical audits and be expected to feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice/service as part of the medicines optimisation programme.
- You will lead on the development of innovation bids, new services or a new mode of service delivery to meet the demands of the changing healthcare environment. Ongoing Quality Improvement forms part of the organisational ethos and gtd healthcare have demonstrated their commitment to this by investing in non-clinical hours for all clinicians to ensure protected time to facilitate the development of quality for staff and services.
For further detials, please refer to the job description attached.
About us
At gtd healthcare we believe we do things differently. Our not-for-profit ethos, with a drive to innovate care offers patients the best experience possible and a unique opportunity to transform services.
We are keen to develop and support staff to excel their career aspirations whilst making a positive difference to patients and the community. We put our people at the heart of everything we do. We are a values driven organisation and we are passionate about providing the best possible healthcare for our patients.
Benefits package
As an employee of gtd healthcare, you'll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, including:
- working for a values-driven organisation;
- Real living wage employer;
- access to Wagestream, which provides flexible and on-demand access to stream your pay during the month, in real-time, when picking-up extra shifts;
- 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service;
- flexible pension benefits including NHS pension scheme;
- flexible working hours and policies;
- family friendly and carer policies;
- opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards;
- access to gtd healthcares wellbeing initiatives, which offer a wide range of tools and resources;
- gtd healthcare social and fun activities;
- cycle to work scheme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Collaborative Working Relationships:
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs and PCNs).
- Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
- Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.
- Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB/PCN Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
- Liaises with ICB/PCN pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management / Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
- Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff, other healthcare professionals including ICB pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. Locality / GP prescribing lead, Locality managers, Community nurses and other allied health professionals, Community and hospital pharmacy teams and hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation.
Leadership:
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices where appropriate.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
Management:
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve medicines related risk management issues according to policy/protocol, whilst understanding the process of escalation where appropriate.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to their own performance management.
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.
Research and Evaluation:
- Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature to ensure evidence based medicines and best practice are followed.
- Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.
- Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.
- Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place.
- Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Other duties:
- Any other duties, as agreed with the line manager to meet the needs of the organisation. This may include travel to other sites within the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Collaborative Working Relationships:
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs and PCNs).
- Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
- Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.
- Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB/PCN Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
- Liaises with ICB/PCN pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management / Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
- Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff, other healthcare professionals including ICB pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. Locality / GP prescribing lead, Locality managers, Community nurses and other allied health professionals, Community and hospital pharmacy teams and hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation.
Leadership:
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices where appropriate.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
Management:
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve medicines related risk management issues according to policy/protocol, whilst understanding the process of escalation where appropriate.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to their own performance management.
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.
Research and Evaluation:
- Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature to ensure evidence based medicines and best practice are followed.
- Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.
- Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.
- Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place.
- Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Other duties:
- Any other duties, as agreed with the line manager to meet the needs of the organisation. This may include travel to other sites within the organisation.
Person Specification
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within primary care and/or general practice as a clinical pharmacist, with an understanding of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information and utilise data to improve clinical outcomes, including the review of medicine related incidents.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- 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.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Able to undertake clinical audit and suggest changes of practice based on outcomes.
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
Person Specification
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within primary care and/or general practice as a clinical pharmacist, with an understanding of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information and utilise data to improve clinical outcomes, including the review of medicine related incidents.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- 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.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Able to undertake clinical audit and suggest changes of practice based on outcomes.
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
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).
