PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

Provide clinical leadership on medicines management and quality improvement as well as managing some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility includes but not limited to: Long-term condition Clinics, Structured Medication Review, medicines support, medicine information to practice staff and patients, unplanned hospital admissions reviews, management of medicines at discharge from hospital, repeat prescribing, risk stratification, service development, information management, medicines quality improvement, medicines safety, implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.

Experience

Essential

• -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
• -Professional Indemnity Insurance is required and will be reviewed on an annual basis.
• -Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• -Independent prescriber or
• -working towards/intent of
• -gaining independent
• -prescribing qualification
• -Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• -In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• -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 (eg, patients).
• -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.
• -Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• -Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• -Self-motivation
• -Adaptable
• -Full driving licence and use of vehicle

Desirable

• -A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• -Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/ experience
• -In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• -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.
• -Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• -Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.

Qualifications

Essential

• 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
• Professional Indemnity Insurance is required and will be reviewed on an annual basis.
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/ experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• 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.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical 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).