Job summary
ABOUT THE ROLE
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join and lead our dynamic team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, well organised, and passionate about providing high quality care - preferably with previous experience of working in primary care, to develop and manage medicines optimisation services within our practices.
You will be based within Ashfield North PCN with a patient population in excess of 52,000. You will be part of a wider team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and supported by our PICS leadership team. You will act as a mentor to help develop our current team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and will work on PCN contracts as well as supporting the practices with their general prescription/medication work. You will also spend a portion of time doing the role of a Clinical Pharmacist depending on the number of hours you work each week.
**Flexible working and partial home working to be negotiated**
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To develop and support the Clinical Pharmacist Team (9 Clinical Pharmacists and 3 Pharmacy Technicians). To line manage staff and conduct annual appraisals etc
- Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services
- To help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the PCN to optimise the quality of prescribing
- To audit and assess the prescribing quantity, frequency, shared care protocols in records, and blood tests areas to audit;
- DMARDs
- NOACs
- Controlled drug and drugs causing dependency
- NSAIDs
- Lithium
- Sodium valporate in females at risk of pregnancy
- Inhalers
- Antibiotic prescribing
- Atrial fibrillation CHADVASC, HASBLED, CVA risk reduction
- Nationally identified low priority medicines
- Liaise with the clinical pharmacist lead for PICS and actively participate in regular Senior Clinical Pharmacist meetings (2 monthly)
- To work at each of the 4 PCN practices located around Sutton In Ashfield
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a pharmacist, preferably demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Preferably completed/to get enrolled on CPPE Pathway for Clinical Pharmacists
- May hold/be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- Be working at/willing to work towards, Advanced Clinical Practitioner Level
About us
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
We offer a comprehensive package which includes:
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
- Works collaboratively with the PCN Clinical Director and PCN GP partner lead for prescribing
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) East Midlands)
- Demonstrates ability to lead a team
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB Pharmacists (medicines optimisation team) on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaises with ICB Pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
- Liaises with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including, but not limited to
- Patients
- GP, Nurses and other practice staff
- Other healthcare professionals including ICB Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Dieticians, Social Prescribing Link Workers, First Contact Physiotherapists, Paramedics, mental health practitioners, mental health occupational therapists, research nurse, etc.
- Locality / GP prescribing lead
- Locality Managers/PCN Business Manager
- Community Nurses and other Allied Health Professionals
- Community and Hospital Pharmacy Teams
- Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Completion of a Bachelors/Masters degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Desirably working as, or working towards, Advanced Clinical Practitioner Level.
- Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Holds an independent prescribing qualification.
- Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to PICS Lead Clinical Pharmacist, GPs /other clinical/managerial colleagues when appropriate
- Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
LEADERSHIP:
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Demonstrates an ability to lead a team and provide mentoring and support to the other Clinical Pharmacists
MANAGEMENT:
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
- Lead and mentor a team of differing experience and abilities
- To line manage staff, annual appraisals etc
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT:
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service
- Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process
- Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague
- Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Lead Clinical Pharmacist to identifying areas to develop
- Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes
- Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
- Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION:
- Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
- Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
- Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place
- Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Please see supporting documents for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
- Works collaboratively with the PCN Clinical Director and PCN GP partner lead for prescribing
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) East Midlands)
- Demonstrates ability to lead a team
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB Pharmacists (medicines optimisation team) on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaises with ICB Pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
- Liaises with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including, but not limited to
- Patients
- GP, Nurses and other practice staff
- Other healthcare professionals including ICB Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Dieticians, Social Prescribing Link Workers, First Contact Physiotherapists, Paramedics, mental health practitioners, mental health occupational therapists, research nurse, etc.
- Locality / GP prescribing lead
- Locality Managers/PCN Business Manager
- Community Nurses and other Allied Health Professionals
- Community and Hospital Pharmacy Teams
- Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Completion of a Bachelors/Masters degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Desirably working as, or working towards, Advanced Clinical Practitioner Level.
- Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Holds an independent prescribing qualification.
- Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to PICS Lead Clinical Pharmacist, GPs /other clinical/managerial colleagues when appropriate
- Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
LEADERSHIP:
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Demonstrates an ability to lead a team and provide mentoring and support to the other Clinical Pharmacists
MANAGEMENT:
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
- Lead and mentor a team of differing experience and abilities
- To line manage staff, annual appraisals etc
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT:
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service
- Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process
- Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague
- Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Lead Clinical Pharmacist to identifying areas to develop
- Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes
- Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
- Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION:
- Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
- Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
- Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place
- Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Please see supporting documents for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
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).
