Job summary
Do you want to be instrumental in developing pathways and services to transform the way that care is delivered locally? Are you interested in improving the health of our local population? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then we are looking for you.
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust (DIHC) has developed and integrated primary care with community-based services within the Dudley healthcare system since 2020 with its core aim being community where possible and hospital when necessary. Our purpose is to improve the health and wellbeing of our local population in Dudley. We are currently working with organisations within the health care sector in Dudley and the Black Country System to look at the best way to continue to deliver the services to our patients. As such the services within the organisation may transfer to other organisations over the course of the next 12 months.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide medicines optimisation and prescribing support activities within the Pharmaceutical Public Health Team PCN DES and strategic DIHC work programmes. The post holder will contribute to safe patient care through provision of clinical audits, regular review and monitoring of patients based on clinical need. The post holder will act as an advisory resource to practices in relation to medicines optimisation, medicines waste, medicines adherence, admissions avoidance and repeat prescribing.
Main duties of the job
The duties and responsibilities are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the post holder. As Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust develops, the requirements of the job may develop and change.
However, to provide an insight into this role, the successful applicant could be expected to be involved the below:
- Contribute to medicines safety work through the analysis and prioritisation of PINCER, medication safety indicators and other practice based clinical audits to promote safe and effective prescribing.
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
- Undertake clinical structured medication reviews with patients taking high risk drugs (within scope of professional practice) and review for ongoing need and appropriate monitoring, making recommendations to senior staff/GP as appropriate. Arrange suitable follow up appointment(s) to monitor the effect of any changes implemented.
For further detail regarding the main duties of this role please refer to the attached job description
About us
DIHC is committed to embracing diversity and we recognise the need to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities we serve to enable us to achieve our purpose and commitments.
We recognise that we are under-represented in a number of areas, and therefore want to positively encourage applications from individuals from black, Asian or other ethnically diverse groups, people with disabilities and people from the LGBT community.
We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
Flexible working options can also be discussed in more detail with the Recruiting Manager for the post, or line manager once in post as part of our Flexible Working Policy. Please be advised that requests will be considered based upon the service structure and service needs once in post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification for more specific information about this post.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccinations.
DIHC presents the unique opportunity to welcome staff into a new type of NHS Trust where they can work in partnership with others to create A Great Place to Work. For more information, please look at our website www.dihc.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification for more specific information about this post.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccinations.
DIHC presents the unique opportunity to welcome staff into a new type of NHS Trust where they can work in partnership with others to create A Great Place to Work. For more information, please look at our website www.dihc.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Qualficiation
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent (BPharm)
Skills , knowledge and experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience
- Understanding of the evidence-based principles of healthcare
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Good IT skills
- Able to interpret patient audit data and implement necessary patient interventions
- Able to recognise boundaries of competence and refer to senior pharmacists or GPs when appropriate.
Other
Essential
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Production of timely reports.
- Work effectively as part of a team and independently
- Self-motivation
- Adaptability
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Qualficiation
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent (BPharm)
Skills , knowledge and experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience
- Understanding of the evidence-based principles of healthcare
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Good IT skills
- Able to interpret patient audit data and implement necessary patient interventions
- Able to recognise boundaries of competence and refer to senior pharmacists or GPs when appropriate.
Other
Essential
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Production of timely reports.
- Work effectively as part of a team and independently
- Self-motivation
- Adaptability
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
