Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our PCN Pharmacy Team, which comprises of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, and a Care Coordinator, supported by a Senior Pharmacist, PCN Clinical Director and wider PCN team. The post will be directly employed by a core practice, but will be expected to work across a number of CWW PCN Practices to help deliver the Primary Care Network DES and local practice priorities.

Working alongside pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within our GP practices and across the wider health system, you will help develop and deliver high-quality pharmacy services across CWW PCN. The postholder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role and will collaborate proactively with healthcare professionals across the practices and PCN.

We are particularly keen to hear from pharmacists with primary care experience and those who hold or are working towards an Independent Prescriber (IP) qualification or completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway. However, we welcome applications from pharmacists of all backgrounds and levels of experience.

*Salary is Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) dependent upon primary care experience*

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Pharmacist will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, building effective working relationships, and contributing positively within a multidisciplinary team.

The postholder will:

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
• Support the delivery of Primary Care Network Directed Enhanced Service (DES) specifications.
• Undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Provide expert clinical medicines advice and support to patients and practice teams.
• Contribute to improving prescribing quality and safety across the Primary Care Network.
• Support service improvement and quality assurance through activities such as clinical audit and quality improvement projects.
• Liaise with community pharmacy, secondary care and other healthcare professionals to resolve medication-related issues and improve continuity of care.
• Support the delivery of pharmacy services to care homes, including structured medication reviews where appropriate.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of pharmacy services across the PCN.
• Complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway and Independent Prescribing qualification if not already achieved.

Job description

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. The role will contribute to successful clinical management of patients and build capacity in the workforce at the right levels.
• Using clinical skills to provide specialist medication review and assessment of patients with long term conditions having complex medicine regimes and produce the best outcomes for the patient.
• To further proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular Frailty, COPD and Asthma); people with Learning Disabilities or Autism (through STOMP-Stop Over Medication Programme)
• Providing specialist expertise and advice in respect to the management and use of medicines and medicines management to patients, carers, practice staff as well as a wide range of health and social care professionals in helping to tackle inequalities
• Be a Prescriber, or completing training to become a Prescriber
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the Practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs 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 antipsychotic use in people with learning disabilities) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation
• Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
• To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes
• To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with all local providers of healthcare
• To plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions.
• To record personally generated information and maintain a database of information relating to the work done in the practice(s) personally generated information includes information and records relating to audit and clinical work undertaken by the post holder, reference notes relating to clinical/technical information, etc the database includes maintaining up-to-date, detailed
• Maintain records of all work done in the practices for which the post holder is accountable, assisting the GP Practice team with appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing budgets
• As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process
• To attend Practice meetings and other meetings (e.g. PPG/CCG) as appropriate to report on workstreams and to give advice on appropriate use of medicines.
• Help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the Practice to optimise the quality of prescribing
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the post holders line manager

About us

Central and West Warrington PCN is a dynamic team of 7 Practices who have a strong and cohesive relationship:

Causeway Medical Centre

Dallam Lane Medical Centre

Eric Moore Partnership

Folly Lane Medical Centre

Helsby Street Medical Centre

Penketh Health Centre

Westbrook Medical Centre

We are committed to delivering good quality care to our patients.

Our vision is to provide safe, effective and sustainable healthcare for our member practice patient population in partnership with other local healthcare providers.

Training Support

Most roles in our PCN require a training element. Staff partaking in training that meets certain requirements will be required to sign a Training Agreement that outlines associated costs to the training. Staff may be liable for reimbursing those costs to the Practice / PCN if they leave their PCN role before, during or after the training. Further detail will be provided to you if this applies to you and your role