Job summary
Leeds Student Medical Practice and The Light Surgery
Primary Care Network Limited (LSMP & TLS PCN) are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Clinical Pharmacist, preferably who has previous PCN Clinical Pharmacist experience.
The role will involve working alongside our Lead GP, senior clinical pharmacist, clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technician. This will be an
exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to join our team and help
influence and shape the future direction of the team. Direct patient care
is a large part of this role and patient reviews will be carried out alongside
the team of PCN Clinical Pharmacists. It
is essential for the successful candidate to have experience of service
development and experience in working in Primary Care.
The PCN comprises of two Practices; both are
committed to creating a supportive working environment where the role will
develop over time. The successful candidate will be supported to complete the
CPPE pathway with dedicated training and support from GPs and the Senior Clinical
Pharmacist.
- Interviews will be held in person on 14th August 2024
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Pharmacist should be able to work
autonomously and be able to provide support to our patients to manage their
long-term conditions effectively, through complex polypharmacy medication
reviews. In addition to playing a pivotal role in our vaccination
programmes.
The patient population across the PCN is
predominantly students and young working professionals; therefore, it is
essential that the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate interest in
helping young people manage their medication and also have a proactive view on
disease prevention. Experience or an interest in Mental Health management and
prescribing is desirable as the patient population based across the PCN has a
large percentage of mental health patients.
The successful candidate should be able to provide
advice and guidance to practice staff and patients with regards to prescription
and medication queries, policies, procedures, PCN DES, QOF, local incentive
schemes, audits and medicines safety.
Our PCN does not have any care homes attached to
our footprint.
About us
Leeds Student
Medical Practice and The Light Surgery form our Primary Care Network (LSMP
& TLS PCN), which works collaboratively to ensure high quality, equitable,
and sustainable care. We work together to represent over 63,000 patients and
strive to provide outstanding patient service. Our work remains rooted in the
local communities that we serve which is predominately a student population. We want the most resilient people to join our growing
PCN team.
This role does not come with parking.
LSMP & TLS PCN is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We welcome
applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex,
gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil
partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work closely with LSMP &
TLS PCN Pharmacy Team under the supervision of the Senior Clinical Pharmacist
and PCN Clinical Director to support the PCN with regards to prescription and
medication queries. The
clinical pharmacist will contribute to the implementation and delivery of the Primary
Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
They will provide clinical support to the
pharmacy technician and clinicians and support with queries around medication,
acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation. You will help
patients to get the best from their medicines by proactively identifying unmet
pharmaceutical need using risk stratification tools, provision of predominantly
level 3 medication reviews, supporting self-care, minimising clinical risk,
answering complex medicines queries, and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
The post holder
will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of
the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and with
other stakeholders and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic
developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national
requirements, NICE implementation, and utilisation of medicines optimisation
initiatives.
The post holder will be undertaking structured
medication reviews, improving medicine optimisation and safety, as well as
running practice clinics. To provide professional specialist medicines advice
to health care professionals associated with the PCN to promote the safe,
effective, and high quality, cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing
decisions for the benefit of the Practice's patients. You will also be
actioning acute prescription requests and conducting medicines reconciliation.
Please see attached Job description for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work closely with LSMP &
TLS PCN Pharmacy Team under the supervision of the Senior Clinical Pharmacist
and PCN Clinical Director to support the PCN with regards to prescription and
medication queries. The
clinical pharmacist will contribute to the implementation and delivery of the Primary
Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
They will provide clinical support to the
pharmacy technician and clinicians and support with queries around medication,
acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation. You will help
patients to get the best from their medicines by proactively identifying unmet
pharmaceutical need using risk stratification tools, provision of predominantly
level 3 medication reviews, supporting self-care, minimising clinical risk,
answering complex medicines queries, and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
The post holder
will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of
the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and with
other stakeholders and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic
developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national
requirements, NICE implementation, and utilisation of medicines optimisation
initiatives.
The post holder will be undertaking structured
medication reviews, improving medicine optimisation and safety, as well as
running practice clinics. To provide professional specialist medicines advice
to health care professionals associated with the PCN to promote the safe,
effective, and high quality, cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing
decisions for the benefit of the Practice's patients. You will also be
actioning acute prescription requests and conducting medicines reconciliation.
Please see attached Job description for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council up to date
Desirable
- Completion of relevant CPPE Primary Care Pathways
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
Desirable
- An appreciation of nature of GPs and general practice
- Previous PCN Clinical Pharmacist Experience.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work and set targets within healthcare.
- An appreciation of the nature or primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing strategies for improving prescribing.
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relation to performance management
Desirable
- Understand of relevant IT systems: EMIS, SystmOne
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Polite and confident
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Flexible and cooperative
- Displays self-confidence and self-awareness
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information in situations where there may be barriers to understanding both to patients, their families /carers and other professionals
- Ability to work under pressure
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council up to date
Desirable
- Completion of relevant CPPE Primary Care Pathways
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
Desirable
- An appreciation of nature of GPs and general practice
- Previous PCN Clinical Pharmacist Experience.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work and set targets within healthcare.
- An appreciation of the nature or primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing strategies for improving prescribing.
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relation to performance management
Desirable
- Understand of relevant IT systems: EMIS, SystmOne
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Polite and confident
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Flexible and cooperative
- Displays self-confidence and self-awareness
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information in situations where there may be barriers to understanding both to patients, their families /carers and other professionals
- Ability to work under pressure
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).
