PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following is not an exhaustive list and the post holder may at times need to undertake duties as per the needs of the PCN

Lead Duties

Lead a team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team providing support to team members and ensure there is appropriate clinical supervision in place for all pharmacists

Undertake clinical supervision and systematic peer caseload review of colleagues on an individual or group basis

Ensure all pharmacists are engaged with the review and appraisal systems within the PCN

Act as a role model demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis and promote the behaviours of being proactive positive respectful supportive reliable and trustworthy

Conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague

Understand the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service and manage the team of Clinical Pharmacists through these changes

Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice acting on results thereby ensuring safe delivery of care

Follow professional and organisational policies and procedures relating to performance management

Participate in maintaining systems for risk assessment and minimisation including promoting a fair blame culture in order that near misses and incidents are reported and investigated

Contribute to investigation of incidents and complaints when required; participate in identifying lessons learnt and the sharing of learning across the organisation

Ensure dignity privacy and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times

Continually monitor standards of care through quality markers achievement of PCN targets and benchmarking

Be aware of local quality data and use it to identify practice development required

Work proactively in managing change in own speciality to improve practice and health outcomes

Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing and medicines optimisation Conduct clinical audits and improve projects or work with colleagues such as PCN staff Practice staff etc

Present results and provide leadership on suggested changes

Contribute to national and local research initiatives

Clinical Responsibilities

• Conduct patient-facing long-term condition clinics e g COPD asthma ensuring medicine optimisation and ongoing medication monitoring
• Undertake structured clinical medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy multiple comorbidities or specific clinical needs
• Carry out medication reviews in care homes working closely with staff to improve safety in medicines ordering and administration
• Perform domiciliary medication reviews attending and referring patients to multidisciplinary case conferences when appropriate
• Manage a caseload of patients presenting with minor self-limiting conditions within clinical competence referring where needed
• Run face-to-face and telephone clinics to support patients with medicine-related concerns or queries
• Prescribing and Medicines Management
• Act on acute and repeat prescription requests ensuring appropriate authorisation monitoring and safety
• Reconcile medications following discharge from hospitals care homes or intermediate care identifying discrepancies and ensuring continuity
• Analyse use of high-risk medicines linked to unplanned admissions and implement prescribing changes to reduce risk
• Monitor and action prescribing alerts from the MHRA local medicines optimisation teams or formulary updates
• Implement and audit practice compliance with local/national prescribing guidelines and NICE technology appraisals
• Medicines Optimisation and Safety
• Identify patients at risk of medicine-related harm using clinical systems and data analysis tools
• Carry out clinical audits and quality improvement projects in priority prescribing areas
• Provide advice and input into practice-level formulary decisions and maintain formulary compliance
• Develop and implement repeat prescribing policies including managing reauthorisations and monitoring test requirements
• Communication and Patient Support
• Respond to complex medicine-related queries from GPs practice staff community pharmacists and patients
• Provide follow-up to patients after medication changes to monitor response and manage concerns
• Support patients post-discharge to understand and use their medicines effectively
• Leadership and Service Development
• Provide clinical leadership in medicines optimisation across the practice/PCN
• Contribute to the development and implementation of services involving medicines e g treatment pathways
• Analyse and present prescribing data to inform decision-making and improve safety
• Participate in local medicines management groups or committees as needed
• Education and Training
• Deliver education and training sessions to practice staff on therapeutics prescribing safety and medicines optimisation
• Promote a learning culture around prescribing and medicines use within the PCN
• Care Quality Commission CQC and Governance
• Support practices in meeting CQC requirements where medicines and prescribing are involved
• Ensure adherence to best practice and governance standards related to medicines use and storage
• Public Health and Prevention
• Support national and local public health campaigns e g vaccinations smoking cessation
• Provide expert advice on public health initiatives relevant to medicines and therapeutic interventions
• Signposting and Integration
• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional or service in a timely and effective manner
• Foster strong links between general practice community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy teams to ensure cohesive care and efficient skill mix utilisation
• Other responsibilities
• To act at all times in an anti-discriminatory manner
• To be able to plan and respond to workload according to operational priorities
• To support the delivery of these functions across wider locality areas where necessary
• To undertake any training required in order to maintain competency including mandatory training
• To contribute to and work within a safe working environment
• To take responsibility for self-development on a continuous basis undertaking on the-job training as required
• To be aware of individual responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report as necessary any untoward accident incident or potentially hazardous environment
• Confidentiality
• In the course of seeking treatment patients entrust us with or allow us to gather sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that employees will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description you may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers PCN and practice employees and other healthcare workers You may also have access to information relating to the PCN and practices as a business organisation All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients carers colleagues other healthcare workers or the business of the PCN or the practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
• Health & safety
• The post-holder must always comply with the organisation and Practices Health and Safety policies in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System
• The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act 1984 The General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and the Access to Health Records Act 1990
• The post-holder will comply with all necessary training requirements relevant to the role as identified by the organisation; in particular the post holder must complete the specified care coordinator training delivered by the Personalised Care Institute
• Equality and Diversity
• The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment Co-workers patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender ethnic origin age disability sexual orientation religion etc
• Communication
• Recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to
• o Communicate effectively with other team members
• o Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• o Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC
• Independent Prescriber
• MPharm or equivalent with postgraduate clinical qualification

Desirable

• Minimum 3 years post-qualification experience including advanced practice in primary care

Experience

Essential

• Strong leadership, communication and analytical skills
• Enthusiasm to join and develop a fantastic pharmacy team in a dynamic forward thinking PCN
• Experience in medicines optimisation, audit, governance and service development
• Proficient IT skills including EMIS and medicines safety systems

Desirable

• Minimum 3 years post-qualification experience, including advanced practice in primary care
• Experience with Clinical Systems such as EMIS

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Taunton Deane West Primary Care Network

Address

Wellington Medical Centre

Mantle Street

Wellington

Somerset

TA21 8BD

Employer's website

https://tauntondeanewestpcn.gpweb.org.uk/our-primary-care-network (Opens in a new tab)