Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

To lead

and mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute

to competency assessment, supervision and professional development

To provide

operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,

electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

To promote

medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate

monitoring for high-risk therapies.

To help

to translate national and local priorities into effective practice

To

deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,

including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex

needs.

To run

patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including

domiciliary or care-home visits where required.

To lead

audits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using data

to monitor impact and report progress.

To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,

hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient

outcomes

To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,

public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across

member practices.

To

oversee key medicines related programmes

Summary: To provide leadership and development

for the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality,

patient-centred clinical care.

Role

1. To lead

and mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute

to competency assessment, supervision and professional development

2. To provide

operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,

electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

3. To promote

medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate

monitoring for high-risk therapies.

4. To help

to translate national and local priorities into effective practice

5. To

deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,

including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex

needs.

6. To run

patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including

domiciliary or care-home visits where required.

7. To lead

audits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using data

to monitor impact and report progress.

8. To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,

hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient

outcomes

9. To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,

public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across

member practices.

10. To

oversee key medicines related programmes

Clinical

Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including

Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients

Long-term condition management (e.g. hypertension,

asthma, diabetes)

Medicines reconciliation post-discharge

Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety.

Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and other

healthcare professionals on safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing

In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs,

Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patient

and adapt therapy where appropriate

Address the day-to-day issues raised by patients /

staff in relation to medicines management and escalate / investigate / prevent

recurrence as necessary

Competently manage and undertake patient clinics,

organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patient

follow-ups and medicine optimisation.

Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamless

integration of pharmacy into patient pathways.

Leadership & Management

Line Manage, mentor and support the pharmacy

workforce, ensuring role clarity, supervision, appraisal and continuing

continuous professional development (CPD).

Champion a culture of continuous improvement,

mentoring and shared learning.

Engage in the recruitment, conduct or performance

management of Pharmacy Team members, with the support of the PCN Manager

Take responsibility for own development, learning

and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are

undertaking similar work.

Hatters Health PCN is a successful, innovative and friendly PCN with 5 member practices, situated in North West Luton. We pride ourself on providing a positive and collaborative atmosphere where everyone works together for the benefit of our population and our staff. We are a very friendly, supportive organisation which genuinely values learning and development and as such were the first PCN in BLMK to be recognised as a training organisation. Our pharmacy team benefit from regular tutorials and clinical supervision.

Qualifications

Experience

Personal