Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Pontefract &
Knottingley Primary Care Network (PCN) for a Pharmacist to join our friendly
and dynamic team.
Pontefract and Knottingley PCN is made up of four GP Practices, Ash Grove
Medical Centre, Friarwood Medical Centre, Northgate Medical Centre and Stuart
Road Medical Centre serving a population of approximately 49,000 registered
patients. The practices are located across Pontefract and Knottingley district.
The PCN covers four GP practices in the district serving
a patient population of around 49,000 and we are looking to recruit
enthusiastic, forward thinking GP Assistants to work as part of a team covering
the GP practices and also work alongside Care Co-ordinators in our Care
Homes. The role also includes
collaboratively working across the network area with our community partners to
look after the health and wellbeing of our local population.
You will be joining our growing Pharmacy Team, and be a part of our larger ARRS team which is made up of a variety of different staff members who all link in with each other to support the Practice's and each other.
Further ongoing support will be provided through both
local and countrywide governance and peer support groups. Additional
professional development in line with the individuals needs will be available
with shadowing, mentoring, e-learning, and relevant courses/conferences.
Main duties of the job
The post
holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a
multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management,
provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term
conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer
prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation,
acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social
care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. The post
holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with
polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and
those with multiple comorbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on
quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the
Quality and Outcomes Framework. 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. The post holder will be supported
to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification
is not already held.
About us
Conexus Healthcare
Limited is the Confederation for general practice in Wakefield, we have four
areas of work.
1. Delivery of high-quality public
facing Health and Wellbeing services across the Wakefield District: We develop, manage,
and deliver health and care services that support the population of the whole
Wakefield district
2. Delivery of Training, Development
and Consultancy support across the United Kingdom: We design and
deliver a range of training courses, development activity and provide advice
and guidance that supports general practices and other primary care
organisations.
3. Supporting Our Practices and
Primary Care Networks (PCNs): We support general practices and PCNs across the
Wakefield district to be more resilient, sustainable and deliver better patient
care and care for the health needs of their populations.
4. Providing a voice and influence for
General Practice in the Health and Care System: We provide a forum to develop a unified voice for
General Practice and support general practices to cooperate and work
collaboratively with the wider health and care sector partners in the district.
Built
within primary care, for primary care, Conexus Healthcare Limited works with
local GPs and their practices to champion investment in and deliver effective
primary care at scale. By connecting in this way, we are stronger, more
resilient and can care effectively for over 370,000 local people together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role please see the additional documents attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role please see the additional documents attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Current GPhC registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a specialist level with CCG, community or hospital pharmacy services and/or at the interface between primary care and other healthcare providers
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (Desirable)
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of general practice and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of the principles of Medicines Optimisation
- Knowledge of polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Awareness and understanding of risk stratification approaches to identify chronic disease and long-term conditions patients
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s)
- Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice providers and social care
- Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of chair
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and complex clinical and organisaional issues
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to perform patient-centered structured medication reviews to a proficient level using techniques such as motivational interviewing etc
- Sound problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to establish systems and ensure delivery of data gathering and reporting for highly detailed outcome and output measures relevant to the GP Clinical Pharmacy pilot
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Self-motivated
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
- Able to travel independently across practices if needed
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective consultation skills within a clinical setting to support people be activated in their own care including use of motivational interviewing techniques, patient education and supported self-care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good working relations across multidisciplinary teams
- Must understand the aims of current healthcare policy, including the new GP contract and the NHS Long Term Plan
- Awareness of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems
- Able to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent ability to organise oneself and others
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision; accepts accountability for and learns from their acts and omissions
- Skills in preparing formal documentation for staff, public and patients
- Able to demonstrate tact, empathy and diplomacy in order to communicate confidential and sensitive information to patients and healthcare professionals
- Able to demonstrate and engage GPs in the effective and appropriate use of medicines and of medicines optimistation services
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to groups
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of activities formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to work with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and service development/new ways of working
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight, and often changing and conflicting deadlines
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Current GPhC registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a specialist level with CCG, community or hospital pharmacy services and/or at the interface between primary care and other healthcare providers
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (Desirable)
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of general practice and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of the principles of Medicines Optimisation
- Knowledge of polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Awareness and understanding of risk stratification approaches to identify chronic disease and long-term conditions patients
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s)
- Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice providers and social care
- Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of chair
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and complex clinical and organisaional issues
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to perform patient-centered structured medication reviews to a proficient level using techniques such as motivational interviewing etc
- Sound problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to establish systems and ensure delivery of data gathering and reporting for highly detailed outcome and output measures relevant to the GP Clinical Pharmacy pilot
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Self-motivated
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
- Able to travel independently across practices if needed
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective consultation skills within a clinical setting to support people be activated in their own care including use of motivational interviewing techniques, patient education and supported self-care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good working relations across multidisciplinary teams
- Must understand the aims of current healthcare policy, including the new GP contract and the NHS Long Term Plan
- Awareness of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems
- Able to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent ability to organise oneself and others
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision; accepts accountability for and learns from their acts and omissions
- Skills in preparing formal documentation for staff, public and patients
- Able to demonstrate tact, empathy and diplomacy in order to communicate confidential and sensitive information to patients and healthcare professionals
- Able to demonstrate and engage GPs in the effective and appropriate use of medicines and of medicines optimistation services
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to groups
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of activities formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to work with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and service development/new ways of working
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight, and often changing and conflicting deadlines
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).
