PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide support to meet the individual needs of Practices. Responsibilities may vary across Practices and can include:

Repeat prescribing and medication reviews.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing and address public health and social needs of patients through clinical medication review. This would be a level 3 medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition e.g. blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation.

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the Practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives if stock issues).

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Confidentiality

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow up to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers.

They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the PCN policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health and Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the PCN Health and Safety policy.

Safeguarding

All employees are responsible for taking all reasonable measures to ensure that the risk of harm to children and vulnerable adults are minimised. They should take all appropriate actions to address concerns, working to agreed local policies and procedures, including the guidance on Safeguarding, in partnership with other relevant agencies. This includes accessing appropriate training, advice, and support.

Disclosure and Barring Services

This post will be subject to a DBS Disclosure check at the point of recruitment and thereafter.

Infection Control

All employees have an individual responsibility to have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection prevention and control practice. All employees must comply with Infection Prevention and Control mandatory training requirements.

Equality and Diversity

The post holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Accredited masters degree of pharmacy Degree (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Completed, or working towards, a Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway qualification (CPPE)
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Can work independently on a day-to-day basis and able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Email, telephone & online meetings).
• Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from education, training, and experience.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Good IT skills.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.

Desirable

• Experience of using SystmOne
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data

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).

Employer details

Employer name

BWM PCN Limited

Address

Whitehall Surgery, Wortley Beck Health Centre,

Ring Road, Lower Wortley

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS12 5SG

Employer's website

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