Job summary
Job summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join the growing Torentum Primary Care Network. Working across 3 GP practices we currently employ a PCN Manager, Clinical Lead (Paramedic), 3 Clinical Pharmacists and a Pharmacy Technician, Social Prescribers, Paramedic, Care Co-ordinators and a mental health team.
With regular MDT meetings, we work collaboratively supporting our colleagues throughout the network, and the wider healthcare community.
Please apply by providing your CV and a supporting letter within the same document. We also encourage informal visits from interested candidates to meet the team and find out more about the role and the work we do - please get in touch with us.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for dynamic pharmacists who like a challenge and who can bring their energy and innovation to further develop clinical pharmacy within our PCN. This role will involve being part of the PCN multi-disciplinary team and requires you to provide a high level of expertise in clinical medicines management.
The role will include delivering face to face structured medication reviews, including for housebound patients and those with long term conditions and project work. The role will also involve working with the PCN practices on day to day business and improving collaborative systems for safer prescribing, addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients. This role requires someone with the motivation and passion to deliver anexcellent service within general practice. The successful candidate will be supported to become a non-medical prescriber, if not already, and will also benefit from our commitment to professional development and peer support.
The role will enable the PCN organisation to deliver their annual NHS contract and project management of the PCN service by achieving goals and targets using a combination of personal involvement, motivation of other staff and delegation when appropriate.
About us
What is a Primary Care Network?
The aim of a Primary Care Network is to enable the provision of proactive, accessible, coordinated and more integrated primary and community care improving outcomes for patients.
They are formed around natural communities based on GP registered lists, serving populations of around 30,000 to 50,000.
The Torentum Primary Care Network
The Torentum Primary Care Network was formed in June 2020, as a collaboration of 3 GP Practices, Cleveleys Group Practice, The Crescent Surgery and The Thornton Practice serving a population of registered patients on our list equating to approximately 33,000 patients.
Networks need to be small enough to provide the personal care valued by both patients and GPs, but large enough to have impact through deeper collaboration between practices and others in the local health (community and primary care) and social care system. We will provide a platform for providers of care to be sustainable into the longer term.
Now is an exciting time to join Torentum PCN, we are expanding our team and remain passionate about delivery high quality care. We offer supportive development opportunities working across our 3 GP practices and are keen to hear from motivated candidates who share our passion for healthcare.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A key job
role for PCN Clinical Pharmacists is to undertake patient facing structured
medication reviews, ensuring patients have appropriate monitoring tests in
place, maximising QoF achievements, when required for patients:
a.
in care homes,
b.
with complex and problematic polypharmacy,
specifically those on 10 or more medications,
c.
on medicines commonly associated with medication
errors,
d.
with severe frailty,
e.
who are particularly isolated or housebound or
who have had recent hospital admissions and/or falls,
f.
using particularly addictive pain management
medication.
·
Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews to
address polypharmacy and improve concordance.
·
Patients identified as requiring extra support
with their medication or those with questions, queries and concerns about their
medication.
Other duties are not limited to, but may
include:
·
Telephone consultations and multimedia
contacts will also be undertaken where appropriate
·
Work to collaborate in a common framework for
medication standards agreed by all PCN practices to ensure equity, clarity and
consistency for all patients and health and social care staff.
·
Work to maximise GP practice incomes through
pro-active involvement in QoF and Healthier Fylde Coast Contract to achieve
targets through high quality clinical reviews and data analysis.
·
Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of
harm from medicines - this might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
·
Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit
and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing
of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
·
Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries
from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy)
and patients with queries about medicines.
·
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the
development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components
(e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
·
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data
to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
·
Contribute to the implementation of changes
that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national
guidance.
·
Contribute to the implementation of local and
national guidelines and formulary recommendations, monitor practice prescribing
and make recommendations to GPs.
·
Provide education and training to primary
healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
·
Work with the general practice teams to ensure
the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
·
Provide specialist knowledge on all public
health programmes available to the general public.
·
Support the practices with clinical practice
pharmacist work where needed, e.g. during annual leave, medicines
reconciliation, clinical letters etc.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A key job
role for PCN Clinical Pharmacists is to undertake patient facing structured
medication reviews, ensuring patients have appropriate monitoring tests in
place, maximising QoF achievements, when required for patients:
a.
in care homes,
b.
with complex and problematic polypharmacy,
specifically those on 10 or more medications,
c.
on medicines commonly associated with medication
errors,
d.
with severe frailty,
e.
who are particularly isolated or housebound or
who have had recent hospital admissions and/or falls,
f.
using particularly addictive pain management
medication.
·
Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews to
address polypharmacy and improve concordance.
·
Patients identified as requiring extra support
with their medication or those with questions, queries and concerns about their
medication.
Other duties are not limited to, but may
include:
·
Telephone consultations and multimedia
contacts will also be undertaken where appropriate
·
Work to collaborate in a common framework for
medication standards agreed by all PCN practices to ensure equity, clarity and
consistency for all patients and health and social care staff.
·
Work to maximise GP practice incomes through
pro-active involvement in QoF and Healthier Fylde Coast Contract to achieve
targets through high quality clinical reviews and data analysis.
·
Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of
harm from medicines - this might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
·
Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit
and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing
of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
·
Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries
from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy)
and patients with queries about medicines.
·
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the
development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components
(e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
·
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data
to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
·
Contribute to the implementation of changes
that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national
guidance.
·
Contribute to the implementation of local and
national guidelines and formulary recommendations, monitor practice prescribing
and make recommendations to GPs.
·
Provide education and training to primary
healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
·
Work with the general practice teams to ensure
the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
·
Provide specialist knowledge on all public
health programmes available to the general public.
·
Support the practices with clinical practice
pharmacist work where needed, e.g. during annual leave, medicines
reconciliation, clinical letters etc.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
- Good all-round clinical knowledge and practical skills.
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions or work towards this skill.
- An appreciation of the role of GP and the wider primary care teams.
- Knowledge of general practice funding streams especially Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) and Quality Schemes and ability to transfer data interpretation skills alongside clinical skills to support practice income generation.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to make judgements involving complex facts or situations that require the analysis and interpretation of a range of options.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy environment and meet deadlines by effective prioritisation of work whilst also supporting others.
- Experience of effective team working and ability to accept guidance and constructive criticism as part of personal development.
- Ability to work effectively, autonomously and be able to proactively use own initiative within your own recognised professional limitations.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Demonstrates attention to detail, able to work accurately, identify errors quickly and easily.
Desirable
- Experience of working within primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Evidence of commitment to CPD (continuing professional development)
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- Completed/intention to enrol onto the CPPE Primary Care Pathway
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
- Good all-round clinical knowledge and practical skills.
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions or work towards this skill.
- An appreciation of the role of GP and the wider primary care teams.
- Knowledge of general practice funding streams especially Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) and Quality Schemes and ability to transfer data interpretation skills alongside clinical skills to support practice income generation.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to make judgements involving complex facts or situations that require the analysis and interpretation of a range of options.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy environment and meet deadlines by effective prioritisation of work whilst also supporting others.
- Experience of effective team working and ability to accept guidance and constructive criticism as part of personal development.
- Ability to work effectively, autonomously and be able to proactively use own initiative within your own recognised professional limitations.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Demonstrates attention to detail, able to work accurately, identify errors quickly and easily.
Desirable
- Experience of working within primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Evidence of commitment to CPD (continuing professional development)
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- Completed/intention to enrol onto the CPPE Primary Care Pathway
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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).
