Avon Valley PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be part of a multi-skilled primary care team in a patient facing role providing patient centred medical services based on patient needs with a focus on continuity of care.

Clinical Medication Review

Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)

Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare

Review the on-going need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and use the opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes through shared decision-making conversations

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas

Make appropriate recommendations to GPs when necessary

Long-term condition clinics

Help to set up pharmacist run long term condition clinics particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes

Care Home Medication Reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews, formulate a medicines optimisation plan jointly with the patient/ carer and facilitate its implementation by working with other professionals, services and agencies as necessary

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Medicines information

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients.

Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources

Medicine Reconciliation

Support the pharmacy team to carry out medication reviews and reconciliation for care home patients and for patients whose care is transferred back into primary care.

Medicines Management

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Support the Pharmacy team to manage blood monitoring of High-Risk Drugs and DOAC dose checking across the PCN.

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practices and to help in tackling inequalities

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

Undertake and lead on any specific medicines optimisation-based projects/portfolio areas of work as may be required by the Pharmacy Team

Collaborating Working Relationships

Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system

Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation

Education and Training

Be a prescriber and work with and alongside the general practice team

Provide specialist education to pharmacy colleagues, nursing staff and GPs on aspects of medicines optimisation

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development

Develop a good working knowledge of the clinical systems used by the practices

Attend internal and external meetings and any training courses and supervision sessions as required.

Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.

Practice Targets

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES

Service development

Work with colleagues to create processes which offer improvement in consistency and delivery of our services to patients.

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

Identify areas of good practice and help to disseminate across the PCN

To liaise with the practices and, where practicable, to standardise the medicines management process across the PCN

Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

The applicant will need to have access to transport as they may need to travel across the whole of the Avon Valley Primary Care Network area (Ringwood, Bransgore and Fordingbridge) over the course of a working week.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• Be able to organise workload, multi-task and work under pressure to achieve tight deadlines. Be able to work autonomously.
• Excellent team player working well within a team
• Ability to be flexible with hours if required
• Clear understanding of confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Clear, concise record keeping and report writing skills
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• Have a flexible working attitude and willingness to adopt new ways of working
• Self-motivated
• Friendly and approachable
• Ability to drive/ have own car

Qualifications

Essential

• Pharmacy Degree
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education primary care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) qualification
• Registered non-medical prescriber
• Primary Care experience

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Experience of working with clinical management systems, especially SystmOne.

Experience

Essential

• Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice and evidence-based medicine
• An appreciation of NHS agenda, national policies and government targets
• An understanding of the current PCN DES specifications
• A wide range of IT skills especially Microsoft 365 software and specifically Excel.

Desirable

• 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
• 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 organisations
• Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Fordingbridge Surgery

Address

The Fordingbridge Surgery

Bartons Road

Fordingbridge

Hampshire

SP6 1RS

Employer's website

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