Job summary
Warwickshire East PCN are looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist who is passionate for delivering a quality service to their patients. The Clinical Pharmacist role supports to improve patients health outcomes and of the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise, including face to face. Clinical Pharmacist proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.
Main duties of the job
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.
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to be directly responsible for care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
- To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
- To lead and promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation for specialist area in the wider medicines agenda ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes.
- To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery for specialist area in order to ensure a high-quality service and to further develop provision.
- To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.
About us
Why us?
SWGP Federation is made up of 31 GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.
o 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
o NHS Pension
o Health & Wellbeing support
o Bike2work Scheme
The Warwickshire East PCN consists of the following practices...
Southam Surgery - Stowe
Drive, Southam CV47 1NY
St Wulfstan Surgery - Northfield
Road, Southam CV47 0FG
Harbury Surgery - Mill
Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HR
Fenny Compton Surgery - High
St, Fenny Compton, Southam CV47 2YG
Kineton Surgery - Old
School, Market Square, Kineton CV35 0LP
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.
Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patients outcomes, reflect the needs of the PCN population and shift workload from other disciplines.
Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approaches acute illness.
Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines.
Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff
Organize and oversee the PCNS medicines optimisation system including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
Deliver high quality medication review and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission)
Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance
Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards.
Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities
Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issue
Deliver training, monitoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.
Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patients outcomes, reflect the needs of the PCN population and shift workload from other disciplines.
Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approaches acute illness.
Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines.
Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff
Organize and oversee the PCNS medicines optimisation system including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
Deliver high quality medication review and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission)
Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance
Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards.
Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities
Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issue
Deliver training, monitoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Must understand the background to and aims of General practice. Has appreciation of new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners. Understanding of the current national policies those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
Desirable
- Good understanding of primary care. Experience of undertaking evidence reviews. Evidence of experience in using independent prescribing.
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development. Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training. Member of GPHC.
Desirable
- GPHC Independent Prescribing Qualification.
Attitude, skills & abilities
Essential
- Ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of clinicians and managers. Proven verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Good interpersonal skills. Considers most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; can take actions which support and promote this agenda. Ability to travel round the PCN GP Practices. Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop. Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary/secondary. Evidence of planning and delivering of programmes and projects and services on time. Ability to summarise and present information in relevant concise and proactive way. Current and valid UK driving license with access to a car. Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to apply to practice. Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carer can understand. Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
Desirable
- Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a range of stakeholders.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Must understand the background to and aims of General practice. Has appreciation of new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners. Understanding of the current national policies those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
Desirable
- Good understanding of primary care. Experience of undertaking evidence reviews. Evidence of experience in using independent prescribing.
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development. Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training. Member of GPHC.
Desirable
- GPHC Independent Prescribing Qualification.
Attitude, skills & abilities
Essential
- Ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of clinicians and managers. Proven verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Good interpersonal skills. Considers most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; can take actions which support and promote this agenda. Ability to travel round the PCN GP Practices. Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop. Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary/secondary. Evidence of planning and delivering of programmes and projects and services on time. Ability to summarise and present information in relevant concise and proactive way. Current and valid UK driving license with access to a car. Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to apply to practice. Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carer can understand. Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
Desirable
- Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a range of stakeholders.
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).
