Senior Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership Role

Provide leadership in supporting further integration of general practice with wider healthcare systems.

Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

To support the chief pharmacist in delivering on KPIs and strategic organisational goals.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to, the workplace vision.

As part of the medicines management team, to monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.

Lead and provide support to other clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and prescribing support staff.

Line management and leadership of PCN pharmacists and technicians, objectives, ensuring all team members have clarity of purpose.

Support educational development of PCN clinical pharmacists and future pharmacists/independent prescribers in the form of clinical supervision and mentorship.

Understand the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service and manage the team

through these changes.

Identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.

Practice & Service Development Work

Focusing on QOF Domains, improving disease registers.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients, (such as around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives, i.e. around out of stocks). Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Prescribing Safety audits, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support.

Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff).

Actioning of MHRA safety alerts and lead on clinical safety team meeting as required by the Chief Pharmacist.

Provide guidance and/or training on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge.

Participate in the PCN MDT.

Liaise with colleagues including ICB,STP/ICS Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients.

Work with the Chief Pharmacist and clinical leads to develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway (e.g. new oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation).

Security and Safety

The post-holder must always comply with the Practices Health and Safety policies, 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) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Note

The job holder will be expected to undertake any other duties which are not specifically listed but are within the remit, responsibility, and accountability of the job.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 1. Proven experience of leading a team and/or through change
• 2. Post qualifying experience as a pharmacist
• 3. Demonstrable line management skills
• 4. Evidence of delivering results through managing others, using a range of levers to motivate and mobilise others
• 5. Experience of training junior colleagues

Desirable

• 1. 2 years' experience of working as a pharmacist within primary care

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• 1. Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding lone working information governance, and health and safety
• 2. Holds an independent prescribing qualification
• 3. Clinical Diploma or significant Clinical Experience
• 4. Completion of CPPE pathway as per PCN DES requirement or willing to complete within 2 years of joining
• 5. Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• 6. Knowledge of Digital IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to communicate and create plans and reports

Desirable

• 1. An interest in innovation and transformation, identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes
• 2. Knowledge and ability to use GP clinical systems

Qualifications

Essential

• 1. Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• 2. Completion of a Masters degree in pharmacy

Behavioural Attributes

Essential

• 1. A demonstrable commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• 2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with a wide range of colleagues, stakeholders and with patients using appropriate media
• 3. Resilient and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, adapting to team and patient needs
• 4. Demonstrates accountability for delivering against team and personal objectives and contractual requirements
• 5. Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative

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

GPS Healthcare

Address

198 Tanworth Lane

Shirley

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4DD

Employer's website

https://www.gpshealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)