Job summary
As
part of East Cleveland Group multi-disciplinary team, the post-holder will play
a key role in developing and maintaining clinically and cost-effective
prescribing provision across the network population - improving patient
outcomes and helping to relieve service and financial pressures across the PCN.
The
role will include supported progression through the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy
Education Pathway, providing an exciting opportunity to develop knowledge and
skills in relation to patient-facing, person-centred and integrated care.
Main duties of the job
The
post holder will be responsible for the care management of patients with
chronic diseases undertaking clinical medication reviews to support the
proactive management of complex polypharmacy patients. This will include, but
not be limited to, elderly people in care homes, patients with multiple
co-morbidities and those with learning disability and autism.
The
post-holder will additionally provide clinical leadership in the delivery of
person-centred medicines optimisation, helping to support standardised
approaches to care across the PCN and forging strong relationships with both specialist
and community pharmacists to promote system-wide medicines optimisation and
quality improvement.
The post-holder will provide
day-to-day support to practices and will be responsible for supporting and
supervising Pharmacy Technicians.
Ideally
the post-holder will be a non-medical prescriber though there will be an
opportunity to work towards a prescriber qualification following completion of
the Pathway and this will be supported by the network as part of continued
professional development.
About us
East Cleveland PCN consists of 5 member practices serving a patient population of approximately 42,000. The successful applicant will be expected to work in any of these practices to support with service delivery.
East Cleveland PCN offers access to the NHS Pension scheme, 6 weeks paid annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff) plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff) and provides an employee assistance and benefits scheme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Led
by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and working alongside a wider team of Clinical
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the network, the post-holder will
provide day-to-day support to practices in respect to prescription and
medication queries. They will support the repeat prescription system, deal with
acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care
and systems for safe prescribing providing expertise in clinical medicines
advice, whilst proactively and reactively addressing both public and social
care needs of the network population.
The
post-holder will directly provide the duties outlined in the job description in
addition to any other tasks deemed appropriate to the role
Further information is available in the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Led
by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and working alongside a wider team of Clinical
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the network, the post-holder will
provide day-to-day support to practices in respect to prescription and
medication queries. They will support the repeat prescription system, deal with
acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care
and systems for safe prescribing providing expertise in clinical medicines
advice, whilst proactively and reactively addressing both public and social
care needs of the network population.
The
post-holder will directly provide the duties outlined in the job description in
addition to any other tasks deemed appropriate to the role
Further information is available in the attached job description.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Audit and quality improvement, including the review and analysis of data; risk/issue management and addressing quality/performance in practice
- Digital skills, including ability to access and competently use clinical systems and electronic transfer of prescriptions
- Strong clinical leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to apply effective clinical judgement in the prioritisation and decision-making aspects of the role
- Full driving licence
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Knowledge and awareness of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures relevant to the role
Desirable
- Hold or be working toward an independent prescribing qualification (although this will be offered as part of the role)
- Qualified or enrolled on CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway (although this will be offered as part of the role)
- Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care Network arrangements and their contribution to the NHS 10-Year Plan
- Knowledge, awareness and experience of brief intervention and referral pathways that provide opportunistic advice and support for preventable illness and/or long-term conditions receptive to lifestyle/pharmacological support
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience
Desirable
- Experience in conducting medication reviews
- Experience in developing and implementing new policies and processes to improve the quality and safety of practice, in the context of medicines optimisation
- Experience in supporting common acute and long-term conditions
- Experience of working in GP practice
- Experience in working in a care home setting in the capacity of providing patient-centred medicines optimisation support
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Audit and quality improvement, including the review and analysis of data; risk/issue management and addressing quality/performance in practice
- Digital skills, including ability to access and competently use clinical systems and electronic transfer of prescriptions
- Strong clinical leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to apply effective clinical judgement in the prioritisation and decision-making aspects of the role
- Full driving licence
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Knowledge and awareness of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures relevant to the role
Desirable
- Hold or be working toward an independent prescribing qualification (although this will be offered as part of the role)
- Qualified or enrolled on CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway (although this will be offered as part of the role)
- Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care Network arrangements and their contribution to the NHS 10-Year Plan
- Knowledge, awareness and experience of brief intervention and referral pathways that provide opportunistic advice and support for preventable illness and/or long-term conditions receptive to lifestyle/pharmacological support
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience
Desirable
- Experience in conducting medication reviews
- Experience in developing and implementing new policies and processes to improve the quality and safety of practice, in the context of medicines optimisation
- Experience in supporting common acute and long-term conditions
- Experience of working in GP practice
- Experience in working in a care home setting in the capacity of providing patient-centred medicines optimisation support
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).