LS25/26 PCN Clinical Pharmacist

The pharmacy team aims to provide the best patient care

possible. You will work in a patient-facing role, supporting patients to manage

long-term conditions effectively through Structured Medication Reviews. You

will work as part of the MDT and provide support to practices, care homes and

patients with medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF/local

incentive schemes, prescribing processes, audit and medicines safety.

You will be a great team player, but also capable of

independent, autonomous work. You will have excellent inter-personal skills.

You will have excellent communication skills and be committed to providing

exceptional patient care. There are plenty of support and training

opportunities available.

The role will be a mixture of working in practice and from

home. Pharmacists from any sector with a passion for primary care are welcome

to apply.

Clinical Pharmacist Salary: £39959- £48117, dependent

upon experience. We are willing to consider newly qualified pharmacist for this

role.

Key duties and responsibilities

(Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which

options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with

the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS

England that this role is patient-facing in nature.

1.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce

recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing

and monitoring. These reviews could be

cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the

PCN, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.

2.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the PCN,

feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant

practice team.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through

computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine

related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these

medicines to high-risk patient groups

3.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product

withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

4.

Management of

common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments

while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting

to community pharmacy and referring

to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

5.

Patient facing medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and

concerns about their

medicines in the practice.

6.

Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and

concerns about their

medicines.

7.

Management of medicines at change of

care setting

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate

care or care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes

and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive

the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure

continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with

medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).

8.

Medicine information to practice staff

and patients

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network

staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with

queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up

for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

9.

Drug monitoring

Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice

across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the

traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health Economy.

10.

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare

professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of

time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term

condition reviews etc.

11.

Repeat prescribing

Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy,

and streamline these across the PCN where possible. You may be asked to

contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing

patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching

review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when

required.

12.

Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation

of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment

pathways and patient information leaflets).

13. Information

management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and

risks to support decision making.

14.

Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on

therapeutics and medicines

optimisation.

15.

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are

compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

16.

Public health

Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all

public health

programmes available to the general public.

SEL GP Group employs PCN posts on behalf of our seven member

PCNs. We employ an established team of

PCN pharmacists and technicians and are well placed to support you in this new

role.

GP Group is the ideal employer for these roles as you will benefit from

substantial peer support with an extended team of 24 pharmacists and 7

technicians. You will be supported with

mentoring from the Head of Clinical Pharmacy and our Education & Training

Pharmacist, who provide regular peer support meetings involving all the PCN

pharmacists and technicians, as well as a separate technician meeting helping

to build relationships and learn from each other's experiences. Additionally, you will be part ofthe citywide Leeds GP Pharmacy Network, which

has 100+ members.

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Desirable: - Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Professional registration

Essential: - Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable: - Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA); - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Other

Experience

Qualifications

Skills and knowledge