PCN Advanced Practitioner - Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team;

Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action;

Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice;

Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person; and

Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional AP clinical practice and CPD supervision across all four pillars (with relevant training) to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles. Team Management

Lead and line manage your team located across the practices within the Rugby Health PCN.

Provide mentorship and guidance to your team to support each of them to develop in their roles.

Operationally oversee the PCN Clinical Pharmacy service provided through the Clinical Pharmacists.

Manage and monitor performance of Rugby Health Clinical Pharmacists.

Provide support to the Senior Pharmacy Technician and team where required.

Work closely with Advanced Practitioner- CP Lead to manage and develop the service and the overall team, providing cover for leave as needed.

These duties are in addition to those of a PCN Clinical Pharmacist.

The Advanced Practitioner Roadmap details the required competencies needed for this role.

Qualifications

Essential

• GPHC Registration as a Clinical Pharmacist
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Completed CPPE pathway
• Independent prescriber
• Enrol on or have completed the CP Advanced
• Practice Programme/ Portfolio. Completion is a
• requirement of the role.

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years postqualification experience
• Experience of supervising a clinical team
• Experience of leadership
• Experience of working with patients in a community setting.
• Experience of managing common acute and long-term conditions.
• Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences including staff, managers and patients
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise when problem solving and identify deviations from normal pattern
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• 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.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organizational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional and direct service provision
• Ability to recognize personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and discretion at all times
• Experience of working across agency boundaries and in local partnerships
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidencebased healthcare
• An understanding of the nature of general practices
• An understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent IT Skills and experience of computer-based GP clinical systems (EMIS, AccuRx)

Desirable

• People/line management experience
• Experience of working in a primary care setting
• Experience of contract monitoring
• Experience of performance management
• Able to collect, store and analyse data for service evaluation purposes

Other

Essential

• Self-motivated
• Proactive self-starter
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence and access to a car

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).