Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part our large pharmacy team at Shrewsbury PCN. We are actively recruiting with our partner Shropshire Community Trust, where the Medicines Management Team has a long-standing history of delivering high quality services to support the community. This is a permanent role with clinical and leadership opportunities.
At Shrewsbury PCN we have an established clinical team to help to deliver the Direct Enhanced Service (DES) for our patients. Our PCN is made up of 15 practices and you will be allocated dedicated practices, in addition, you will also spend time working at our dedicated PCN hub (Morgan Place) in Shrewsbury business park and local care homes within the network.
You will be supported with your training and developmental needs. The Trust and PCN will provide:
- one to one mentorship with a dedicated Lead Pharmacist during induction phase
- For band 6 applicants, we will develop you towards reaching band 7 level.
- regular team meetings focussing on group-based learning to support clinical knowledge
- a senior management team with a clinical background
- peer mentorship from our Principal Pharmacist
- regular access to clinical supervision
- access to CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (if not already completed)
- Option to undertake independent prescribing qualification as part of role development
Main duties of the job
You will work alongside other band 6 / 7 clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Clinical supervision and role development will be provided by a lead pharmacist along with the Trust's Principal Pharmacist.
You will be a key member of the practice teams and an integral part of the team working across the network. Your clinical work in the practices and care homes will involve face to face consultation with patients in managing their long-term conditions.
Your clinical work will involve the management of long-term conditions, structured medication reviews, deprescribing and supporting staff with medication queries. In addition to this, we are also undertaking some exciting work with our patients that take high dose opiates or gabapentoids for chronic pain to ensure dosing is safe as per NHS England guidance to reduce mortality due to the overuse of these agents.
You will be a clinical pharmacist or pharmacist wishing to develop themself. Once embedded into the team and having reached band 7 level, you will be provided with opportunities to support the training of the Foundation Pharmacists we host as part of a partnership with our local Acute Trust as well as pre-registration pharmacy technicians (SCHT levy) and therefore, you will be able to hone your mentoring skills within this role. You will be a key member of the practice teams and an integral part of the team working across the network.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies to provide specialist pharmaceutical support to all practices of the PCN including working with members of the wider healthcare team to improve care and support safe and effective prescribing.
Moving between practices, the role will have a patient facing element either face to face or telephone - including chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews. This will also include the management and review of patients with polypharmacy.
The post holder will need to be proactively involved in quality improvement and audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
There will also be the requirement for the post holder to contribute to the provision of out of hours/extended hours/improved access services.
The post holder will be supported to help develop the role and work to improve the care and outcomes for the patients across Shrewsbury PCN.
To play a pivotal role in the delivery of high-quality primary health care within Shrewsbury
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies to provide specialist pharmaceutical support to all practices of the PCN including working with members of the wider healthcare team to improve care and support safe and effective prescribing.
Moving between practices, the role will have a patient facing element either face to face or telephone - including chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews. This will also include the management and review of patients with polypharmacy.
The post holder will need to be proactively involved in quality improvement and audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
There will also be the requirement for the post holder to contribute to the provision of out of hours/extended hours/improved access services.
The post holder will be supported to help develop the role and work to improve the care and outcomes for the patients across Shrewsbury PCN.
To play a pivotal role in the delivery of high-quality primary health care within Shrewsbury
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent prescriber or willing to work towards qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post-qualification experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare (band 7 only)
- 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
- Can demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients) (band 7 only)
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions. (band 7 only)
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Able to recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent prescriber or willing to work towards qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post-qualification experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare (band 7 only)
- 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
- Can demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients) (band 7 only)
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions. (band 7 only)
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Able to recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
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).
