PCN PharmacistNHS

Job summary

Grow your impact across primary care

What if your next role gave you the opportunity to make a real difference to people's health every day?

At Lincolnshire Co-op, our pharmacies are trusted healthcare destinations, providing expert advice, clinical care and support to local communities.

As a PCN Pharmacist, you'll work within an evolving Primary Care Network, supporting medicines optimisation, improving prescribing safety and helping deliver joined-up care across General Practice and Community Pharmacy.

Develop your clinical practice and make a difference

No two days are the same. You could be carrying out structured medication reviews for patients with long-term conditions, responding to prescribing queries, supporting clinical audits or working with GP practice teams to improve the safe and effective use of medicines.

You'll use your clinical knowledge and professional judgement to provide personalised, patient-centred care, helping people get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.

Working alongside GPs, community pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, you'll build valuable relationships, broaden your clinical experience and contribute to improving healthcare across our communities.

This is an opportunity to develop your expertise, grow your confidence and play an important role in shaping the future of primary care.

Main duties of the job

Support better outcomes through medicines optimisation

Behind every prescription is a person who needs the right support.

Your work will combine patient-facing care, medicines optimisation and professional collaboration. As a PCN Pharmacist, you'll:

• Prioritise patient care by supporting patients with one or multiple medical conditions where medicines optimisation is required
• Undertake clinical medication reviews, review monitoring needs and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and ongoing care
• Work closely with GPs, community pharmacy teams and other healthcare professionals, answering medicines-related queries and supporting safe, effective prescribing
• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by GPs, feeding back results and implementing changes with the practice team
• Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorisation process by reviewing patient requests, monitoring review dates and flagging those needing further clinical review
• Support signposting and referrals to community pharmacy and other healthcare professionals where appropriate
• Help practices achieve Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators and support the development of services with medicinal components
• Use the Electronic Prescription Service tracker correctly to support claims and manage processes effectively
• Train and support primary healthcare teams on therapeutics and medicines optimisation

Job description

Job Purpose -

• Providing support to general practice colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.
• Prescribing to patients, providing advice on appropriate dosing and routes of administration, addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.
• Providing clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Ensuring that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

Your duties and responsibilities -

• Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)
• Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions
• Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
• Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
• Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics.
• Answering relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines
• Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
• Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
• Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.
• Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.
• Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) indicators.
• Checking patients' prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another.
• Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.
• Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.
• Securing inventories-controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.
• Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions.
• Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.
• Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.
• Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.

About us

From a single store in 1861, Lincolnshire Co-op has grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. Were proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, were a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.

We're owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more! Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagues here.

We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can email [email protected].

We may choose to close our vacancies in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.