PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description:

Please note: the PCN is unable to sponsor any overseas applications, please only apply if you are legally able to work in the UK.

Job Summary

Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supporting delivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications. These roles are critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes in practices, care homes and domiciliary settings.

We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based on the Job Description and Person Specification, therefore do ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.

***Previous applicants need not apply***

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for supporting SWAGGA Member Practices in implementing the NHS 10 Year Plan which includes effective medicine management, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating, streamlining and managing change and reducing duplication across the Network.

About us

SWAGGA are a network developing at pace and are now in a position to recruit further Clinical Pharmacists to shape and drive therapeutical and pharmaceutical decisions and needs. The network has strong foundations and we want SWAGGA to be a network that delivers good quality prescription and financial management and be a leader in providing joined up, integrated clinical care to its patients, supporting our practices to thrive. SWAGGA is a large network, with a population of approximately 100,000 patients, covering 16 practices.

Job responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of the role are to:

1. Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.

2. Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.

3. Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of the national medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or the need for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, always meeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team.

4. Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.

5. Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified patient cohort.

6. Provide care home SMR reviews

7. Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to help nurture a robust team.

8. All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team and in line with the NMP Policy.

9. The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK Drivers Licence is therefore essential.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification
• Significant relevant and ongoing CPD
• Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments

Desirable

• * Completed an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)
• * Experience of in depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare
• * Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices
• * An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice
• * Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these
• * Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex 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).

Employer details

Employer name

SWAGGA PCN Limited

Address

South Liverpool Treatment Centre

32 Church Road

Garston

Merseyside

L19 2LW

Employer's website

https://www.swaggapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)