Job summary
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the district. This role will be a flexible role with remote working as you will be working in the pharmacy Hub with a Team of pharmacy technicians and Clinical pharmacist The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice. Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines. Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams 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.
Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively. As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
About us
Penwith PCN has around 67,000 registered practice population, in the far West of the country. We have 7 GP practices, and our geography includes some remote rural locations as well as towns, surrounded on 3 sides by the coast. This role may be working mainly from one practice, but the successful applicant may be required to change location as per the business's needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overview
Penwith Primary Care Network is a
large forward thinking and well-integrated PCN covering the westerly point of
Cornwall comprising of seven GP practices. The PCN have recently implemented a
pharmacy virtual hub which supports practices to complete project & audit
work as well as functioning as a space for sharing best practice across the
PCN.
The post holder will be contributing
towards a one team culture throughout the organisation and promoting
personalised care, focused on what matters to you, not what's the matter
with you. The post holder will be an
integral part of the practice team working as part of the multi-disciplinary
team of doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and reception/administrators, as
well as functioning as a member of the wider PCN pharmacy team.
Clinical Responsibilities
- Support the pharmacist to provide a clinical pharmacy service in
general practice;
- Participate in practice meetings and other meetings to improve the
integration of the pharmacy technician within general practice & promote
issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation.
- Undertake patient facing
and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared
decision-making conversations with patients;
- Carry out medicines
optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking
inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines
reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in
partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively;
- Support, as determined by
the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home
patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care
settings and linking with local community pharmacists;
- Provide specialist
expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care
needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in
tackling local health inequalities;
- Take a central role in the
clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist
pharmacists for more complex patients;
- Support initiatives for
antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;
- Assist in the delivery of
medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety
audits;
- Support the implementation
of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes
and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking
clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures
and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
Technical and Administrative
- Use and maintain
information systems and databases relevant to the positions including incident
reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient
outcomes;
- Be responsible for the
organisation, planning of own workload & meet set deadlines;
- Work with the PCN
multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including
implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;
- Supervise practice
reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to
allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex
requests;
- Provide leadership for
medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range
of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and
implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and
timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines;
- Provide training and
support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the
implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS);
- Develop relationships with
other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary
team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care
including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overview
Penwith Primary Care Network is a
large forward thinking and well-integrated PCN covering the westerly point of
Cornwall comprising of seven GP practices. The PCN have recently implemented a
pharmacy virtual hub which supports practices to complete project & audit
work as well as functioning as a space for sharing best practice across the
PCN.
The post holder will be contributing
towards a one team culture throughout the organisation and promoting
personalised care, focused on what matters to you, not what's the matter
with you. The post holder will be an
integral part of the practice team working as part of the multi-disciplinary
team of doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and reception/administrators, as
well as functioning as a member of the wider PCN pharmacy team.
Clinical Responsibilities
- Support the pharmacist to provide a clinical pharmacy service in
general practice;
- Participate in practice meetings and other meetings to improve the
integration of the pharmacy technician within general practice & promote
issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation.
- Undertake patient facing
and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared
decision-making conversations with patients;
- Carry out medicines
optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking
inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines
reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in
partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively;
- Support, as determined by
the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home
patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care
settings and linking with local community pharmacists;
- Provide specialist
expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care
needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in
tackling local health inequalities;
- Take a central role in the
clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist
pharmacists for more complex patients;
- Support initiatives for
antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;
- Assist in the delivery of
medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety
audits;
- Support the implementation
of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes
and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking
clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures
and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
Technical and Administrative
- Use and maintain
information systems and databases relevant to the positions including incident
reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient
outcomes;
- Be responsible for the
organisation, planning of own workload & meet set deadlines;
- Work with the PCN
multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including
implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;
- Supervise practice
reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to
allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex
requests;
- Provide leadership for
medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range
of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and
implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and
timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines;
- Provide training and
support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the
implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS);
- Develop relationships with
other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary
team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care
including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential criteria
- Qualifications and Experience Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Desirable criteria
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in primary care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential criteria
- Qualifications and Experience Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Desirable criteria
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in primary care
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Penwith Primary Care Network
Address
Atlantic Medical Group
St. Clare Street
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 3DX