Job summary
Dashwood Primary Care Network
Salary -Up to £44,500 WTE dependant on experience
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
NHS Pension
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
Dashwood pharmacy team is growing and we have an exciting opportunity for another Clinical Pharmacist to join us.
We are looking for someone enthusiastic about providing high quality care to our patients and becoming an integral part of our growing clinical pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Pharmacist will be a patient facing role with plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care, and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role.
The post holder will benefit from:
- Regular supervision from a senior pharmacist
- Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
- Support to enrol in and complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
- Progressing to achieving their independent prescribing qualification
- Being part of a friendly and forward thinking PCN team.
About us
FedBucks
is a federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000
patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200
members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned
care services.
As
a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion
primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the
provision of community-based healthcare services. We provide safe and
compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned
healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to
quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.
Patients
are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our
patients feel safe, supported, communicated with, and respected, at a time when
they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless
health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling
supported and cared for.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
- Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
- Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackling inequalities.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
- Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
- Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackling inequalities.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Member of RPS
Desirable
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications eg clinical community therapeutics or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital community or general practice setting
- Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling
- Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary multiagency work
- Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Member of RPS
Desirable
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications eg clinical community therapeutics or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital community or general practice setting
- Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling
- Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary multiagency work
- Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
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).
