Job summary
Dene & Stour Valley 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.
Job type:Full time 37.5 hours. Part time role will be considered.
Salary:£42,633 - £54,164. Salary depending on experience.
Location:The successful applicant will be based at Hastings House Surgery in Wellesbourne, but must be willing to travel to other practices where necessary to support the business.
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
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.
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33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
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NHS Pension
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Health & Wellbeing support
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Bike2work Scheme
TheDene and Stourconsists of the following practices.
Hastings House Surgery - Rivers Way,
Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, CV35 9RH
Meon Medical Centre - Goose Lane, Lower
Quinton, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8TA
Shipston Medical Centre - Badgers Crescent, Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4BQ
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
