Job summary
Would you like to join a growing, supportive medicines management team with the opportunity for personal development, impactful quality improvement and patient facing clinic's, if so Regis PCN have the perfect role for you...
The role of PCN Lead Clinical
Pharmacist is to ensure collaboration between Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy
Technicians within the PCN team. The Lead Clinical Pharmacist will develop
close links and initiatives between primary and secondary care as well as
community pharmacy partners to build fruitful relationships with local
practices and the wider system. The post-holder will work closely with the PCN Management
team, particularly Clinical Directors and Prescribing Leads, to ensure that PCN
priorities around Structured Medication Review and Medicines Optimisation are
identified, communicated, and addressed. This role is an extension of the PCN Clinical
Pharmacist role and requires providing
day to day leadership to the Regis clinical pharmacy team.
Interviews to be held on: 6th March 2024
Main duties of the job
The Lead Clinical Pharmacist will be responsible for a combination of patient facing work such as medication reviews, chronic disease management, prescription queries and management of medicines through transfer of care. Working within the PCN, they will also play a significant role in service and quality improvement through audits of relevant work processes, sharing of best practice and current guidance with regard to prescribing and through work in medicines optimisation.
The lead Clinical Pharmacist will line manage the Pharmacy Technicians within the PCN, completing 1:1's, appraisals and supporting with development pathways. They will work closely with the Workforce Manager, ensuring compliance and KPI's are upheld and escalating any concerns as required.
The successful candidate will be supported in terms of clinical learning and professional development through regular access to a GP clinical supervisor, other clinical pharmacists and through a formal education pathway through the Centre of Postgraduate Pharmacy Education. As part of a growing team of Clinical Pharmacists there is also a programme of peer support events and team meetings in place.
About us
Innovations in Primary Care (IPC), a federation of the GP Practices within the Coastal West Sussex area arean innovative and ethical company providing high quality, integrated, patient-focused NHS services. We achieve this by harnessing the collective knowledge, skills, experience and energy of our clinicians and staff. If you believe in the importance and effectiveness of providing excellent care where patients need it and would like to apply to join us in this role, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Pharmacist Duties:
- A key role in General Practice combining patient-facing,
analytical and administrative elements of work, bringing expert knowledge of
medicines to multi-disciplinary primary care teams.
- To use expert knowledge of medicines to provide
effective patient services in a Primary Care Network and contribute to the
continued learning of colleagues.
- Contribute
to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between
hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication
changes and communication accordingly.
- Promote public health interventions and
initiatives in the PCN to improve patients experience of service and health
outcomes.
- Provide
specialist expertise in the use of medicines, while helping to address both the
public health and social care needs of patients, supporting them via medication
reviews to reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Take
responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and
proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
- Contribute
to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced
services.
- Create,
promote and support the use of audit tools to support continuous quality
improvement in prescribing and medicine optimisation data across the PCN as
specified in QOF/DES/QIS guidance.
- Ensuring
all duties and responsibilities are compliant with CQC Standards and Regulatory
requirements.
- Commitment
to Professional Development including undertaking the Centre for
Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
and where required Independent Prescribing qualification.
Clinical
Lead Duties:- Work alongside the PCN Management and wider team
to identify areas of prescribing requiring improvement and provide leadership
in implementing suggested changes.
- Support the PCN Management team to identify
priority areas of work and provide regular updates to the PCN Board on the
delivery of identified priorities for the pharmacy team.
- Promote new ways of working and ensure shared
best practice.
- Build good relationships with practices and help
embed the role of Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians to maintain
clarity of direction and expectations of pharmacy team.
- Lead and coordinate clinical audits through
collection and use of process and prescribing data to support quality
improvement projects and initiatives.
- Lead on development of policy and procedures to
improve quality of structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
- Advise the PCN Board and management team regarding
prescribing and medicine management variation, putting forward ways to address
health inequalities and improve patient care.
- Lead and support the promotion of health
literacy projects across the PCN to help promote patients self-care.
- Provide summary reports as required including
regular reporting on structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
- Create, promote and support the use of audit
tools to enable continuous quality improvement in prescribing and medicine
optimisation data across the PCN as specified in QOF/DES/QIS guidance.
Team Leader Duties:
- Support the induction of new Pharmacy
team members.
- Conducting quarterly 1_1s with each of
the team ensuring Key Performance Indicators are being met and checking in to
ensure the following:
- Duties
are aligned with the job description and needs of the PCN
- Appropriate
support is being provided to enable completion of required pathways where
applicable
- Learning
needs to enable performance of required duties are identified and training is
scheduled
- Attendance
at peer support sessions to enable growth and development
- Compliance
with mandatory training requirements
- Performing annual appraisals with each
of the team, completing the IPC templates and sharing with the workforce
manager
- Recognising situations and issues that
need escalating to the allocated PCN Workforce Manager.
- Commit to your own development to
enable effective coaching and line management skills.
- Facilitate opportunities for team
members to learn from each other in an active and positive learning environment.
- Ensure adequate clinical supervision and
mentorship to support the development of the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Pharmacist Duties:
- A key role in General Practice combining patient-facing,
analytical and administrative elements of work, bringing expert knowledge of
medicines to multi-disciplinary primary care teams.
- To use expert knowledge of medicines to provide
effective patient services in a Primary Care Network and contribute to the
continued learning of colleagues.
- Contribute
to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between
hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication
changes and communication accordingly.
- Promote public health interventions and
initiatives in the PCN to improve patients experience of service and health
outcomes.
- Provide
specialist expertise in the use of medicines, while helping to address both the
public health and social care needs of patients, supporting them via medication
reviews to reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Take
responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and
proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
- Contribute
to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced
services.
- Create,
promote and support the use of audit tools to support continuous quality
improvement in prescribing and medicine optimisation data across the PCN as
specified in QOF/DES/QIS guidance.
- Ensuring
all duties and responsibilities are compliant with CQC Standards and Regulatory
requirements.
- Commitment
to Professional Development including undertaking the Centre for
Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
and where required Independent Prescribing qualification.
Clinical
Lead Duties:- Work alongside the PCN Management and wider team
to identify areas of prescribing requiring improvement and provide leadership
in implementing suggested changes.
- Support the PCN Management team to identify
priority areas of work and provide regular updates to the PCN Board on the
delivery of identified priorities for the pharmacy team.
- Promote new ways of working and ensure shared
best practice.
- Build good relationships with practices and help
embed the role of Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians to maintain
clarity of direction and expectations of pharmacy team.
- Lead and coordinate clinical audits through
collection and use of process and prescribing data to support quality
improvement projects and initiatives.
- Lead on development of policy and procedures to
improve quality of structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
- Advise the PCN Board and management team regarding
prescribing and medicine management variation, putting forward ways to address
health inequalities and improve patient care.
- Lead and support the promotion of health
literacy projects across the PCN to help promote patients self-care.
- Provide summary reports as required including
regular reporting on structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
- Create, promote and support the use of audit
tools to enable continuous quality improvement in prescribing and medicine
optimisation data across the PCN as specified in QOF/DES/QIS guidance.
Team Leader Duties:
- Support the induction of new Pharmacy
team members.
- Conducting quarterly 1_1s with each of
the team ensuring Key Performance Indicators are being met and checking in to
ensure the following:
- Duties
are aligned with the job description and needs of the PCN
- Appropriate
support is being provided to enable completion of required pathways where
applicable
- Learning
needs to enable performance of required duties are identified and training is
scheduled
- Attendance
at peer support sessions to enable growth and development
- Compliance
with mandatory training requirements
- Performing annual appraisals with each
of the team, completing the IPC templates and sharing with the workforce
manager
- Recognising situations and issues that
need escalating to the allocated PCN Workforce Manager.
- Commit to your own development to
enable effective coaching and line management skills.
- Facilitate opportunities for team
members to learn from each other in an active and positive learning environment.
- Ensure adequate clinical supervision and
mentorship to support the development of the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy or equivalent qualification.
Desirable
- Qualified as/or willing to commit to independent prescriber status.
Experience
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Minimum 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
- Previous experience of working in Healthcare environment supporting patients with common acute and long-term conditions.
- Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, SOPs and codes of conduct.
- Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of leadership and the skills required to line manage others.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effective with a diverse range of people.
- Good insight into the needs of stakeholders, colleagues and committed to staff wellbeing.
- Excellent administrative skills and ability to maintain high level of detail and thoroughness.
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise tasks.
- Ability to collect, organise and present data effectively.
- IT literate Word, Excel, Outlook and Power point.
- Willing to commit to/or have completed the CPPE pathway.
- Flexibility to travel within the Bognor Regis area.
Desirable
- Previous experience in Quality Improvement work.
- User of TPP SystmOne or Emis.
- Experience of working in a regulated environment.
- Previous experience of line management and leadership.
- Previous experience of working in a GP surgery.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy or equivalent qualification.
Desirable
- Qualified as/or willing to commit to independent prescriber status.
Experience
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Minimum 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
- Previous experience of working in Healthcare environment supporting patients with common acute and long-term conditions.
- Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, SOPs and codes of conduct.
- Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of leadership and the skills required to line manage others.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effective with a diverse range of people.
- Good insight into the needs of stakeholders, colleagues and committed to staff wellbeing.
- Excellent administrative skills and ability to maintain high level of detail and thoroughness.
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise tasks.
- Ability to collect, organise and present data effectively.
- IT literate Word, Excel, Outlook and Power point.
- Willing to commit to/or have completed the CPPE pathway.
- Flexibility to travel within the Bognor Regis area.
Desirable
- Previous experience in Quality Improvement work.
- User of TPP SystmOne or Emis.
- Experience of working in a regulated environment.
- Previous experience of line management and leadership.
- Previous experience of working in a GP surgery.
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).
