Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Altrincham Healthcare Alliance Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking to recruit a Independent Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist to join a PCN of five GP Practices covering 48,000 patients in South Trafford. Working 30-32 hours per week, the ideal candidate will be a forward-thinking, enthusiastic individual with initiative who is keen to work within a team of like-minded people and deliver excellent pharmacy-led services. You will become part of an evolving team of 7 Clinical Pharmacists with clinical support from the Lead GP.

Working across the five GP practices within Altrincham Healthcare Alliance PCN, you will work closely with GPs, nurse practitioners, social prescribers and existing pharmacists as part of a multi-disciplinary team while also building strong effective working relationships with the local community, hospitals, the PCN community pharmacy lead and wider pharmacy teams to improve the care and services to our patients.

The role will focus on achieving PCN initiatives as set out in the PCN contract, NHS Long Term Plan and deliverables agreed by the network members to improve place based patient care.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities of the role include

Management of patients with chronic diseases to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy

Clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas

Provision of specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address public health and social care needs and tackling inequalities across the PCN area

Development of relationships and close working with pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care economy

Provision of leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement

Delivery of first-class, professional service to support patients and GP practices across the PCN

About us

Altrincham Healthcare Alliance are an enthusiastic, friendly PCN committed to improving the health of our population and providing a first-class, caring, patient-centred health service. We are constantly striving to improve patient healthcare outcomes and the post holder will play an integral role within the network and be part of the MDT enabling this to happen.

Our pharmacy goals are: to improve patient lives, to make medicines safer for patients, to raise the profile of PCN Clinical Pharmacists as medicines experts in the multi-disciplinary team of general practice, and to reduce GP workload.