Job summary
Aylesbury Central Primary Care Network
Salary: Circa £41,000 WTE dependant on experience
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week including network core hours- part time considered minimum of 15 hours per week.
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic growing team. 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
Aylesbury Central Primary Care Network (PCN) is a coloration of two practices in central Aylesbury, Whitehill Surgery and Berrycroft Community Health Centre, collectively we care for a patient population of 41,000. The successful applicant will be working with a team of clinical pharmacist and become part of a fast-moving PCN looking for innovative ways to meet our patient needs.
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.
You will be provided support, mentorship and training by our Senior Clinical Pharmacist and also be assigned a GP supervision time as well.
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 47 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 are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
i) Clinical pharmacists will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
ii) They will be prescribers, or will be completing training to become prescribers, and will work with and alongside the general practice team. They will take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic disease and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
iii) They will 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.
iv) Clinical Pharmacists will provide leadership on person centred medicines optimization (including ensuring prescribers in the practices conserve antibiotics in line with antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Through structured medication reviews, clinical pharmacists will support patients to take their medicines and to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
v) Clinical pharmacists will have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practices with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and to help manage general practice workload. The role has the potential to significantly improve quality of care and safety for patients.
vi) They will develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system
vii) Clinical pharmacists will 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.
viii) All clinical pharmacists will be part of a professional clinical network and will have access to appropriate clinical supervision as outlined in the Network Contract DES guidance. As the number of clinical pharmacists working in PCNs increases, this should be on a ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to five junior clinical pharmacists, and in all cases appropriate peer support and supervision must be in place.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
i) Clinical pharmacists will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
ii) They will be prescribers, or will be completing training to become prescribers, and will work with and alongside the general practice team. They will take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic disease and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
iii) They will 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.
iv) Clinical Pharmacists will provide leadership on person centred medicines optimization (including ensuring prescribers in the practices conserve antibiotics in line with antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Through structured medication reviews, clinical pharmacists will support patients to take their medicines and to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
v) Clinical pharmacists will have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practices with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and to help manage general practice workload. The role has the potential to significantly improve quality of care and safety for patients.
vi) They will develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system
vii) Clinical pharmacists will 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.
viii) All clinical pharmacists will be part of a professional clinical network and will have access to appropriate clinical supervision as outlined in the Network Contract DES guidance. As the number of clinical pharmacists working in PCNs increases, this should be on a ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to five junior clinical pharmacists, and in all cases appropriate peer support and supervision must be in place.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Member of RPS
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist
- Effective interpersonal, communication (both written and oral) presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
- Ability to communicate medicines and service-related information to decision makers at all levels and have advice challenged
- Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation for long periods
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines, often with frequent interruptions and urgent requests
- Ability to motivate people and facilitate change
- Ability to define, collate, analyse and interpret data
- Able to utilise databases and information technology, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation packages effectively
- Ability to communicate information to patients and carers in an appropriate manner, using well developed empathy skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Member of RPS
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent
- Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
- Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist
- Effective interpersonal, communication (both written and oral) presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
- Ability to communicate medicines and service-related information to decision makers at all levels and have advice challenged
- Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation for long periods
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines, often with frequent interruptions and urgent requests
- Ability to motivate people and facilitate change
- Ability to define, collate, analyse and interpret data
- Able to utilise databases and information technology, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation packages effectively
- Ability to communicate information to patients and carers in an appropriate manner, using well developed empathy skills
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).
