Primary Care Network - Fixed Term Senior Clinical Pharmacist

The post holder will preferably be an independent prescriber (not essential) and has experience of working in primary care. Will need to be able to:

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

in a patient-facing role.

Proactively manage patients with co-morbidities in the area of

chronic disease management within the practice.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice

staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help

support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests,

and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer

prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing

both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practices.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines

optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and

outcomes framework and enhanced services.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and

operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver

excellent service within general practice.

Your normal hours of work will be between 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

The post holder

Adhere to organisation policies and procedures

and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies.

Maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional

standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role.

Attend mandatory training as identified by the

organisation.

and to contribute to their own development and the development of any staff they

are responsible for appraising.

Responsible to have professional indemnity

suitable for the range of work undertaking.

Responsible to have authorisation for making

changes to prescribing records within the practice. This may be by written

agreement or GP signature for specific audits.

Working Relationships

Patients and carers where appropriate

GPs, nurses and other practice staff including

practice pharmacists

GP prescribing leads

CCG pharmacists and medicines management team

Community Nurses and other allied health

professionals

Community Pharmacists and support staff

The post holder

is expected to work as a flexible member of the PCN providing support to other

team members when necessary and to take an active role in the development and

embedding of the PCNs culture, values and reputation as providers of high

quality services.

The post-holder

will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety

and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

Using personal security systems within the

workplace according to practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work

activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update

Using appropriate infection control procedures,

maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards Reporting

potential risks identified

The post-holder will support the

equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance

of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice

procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and

beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and

of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feeling

priorities and rights.

Development

The post-holder

will participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN as part of

Participation in an annual individual

performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of

own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development,

learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who

are undertaking similar work

Training may need to be undertaken outside of

normal practice hours, and off site.

invested in support from an organisation called Soar Beyond. Soar Beyond

specialise in supporting the creation of teams of pharmacists across a network

of practices. It is supported by a web platform called SMART which assesses

pharmacist competency levels in a range of different disease areas and is

backed up by training programmes to develop the individual where there might be

gaps that the individual and the PCN would like to be filled. Currently the

team is working towards competency in Diabetes management and the PCN is

implementing a pharmacist led Diabetes pathway to be used across practices.

The post-holder

will strive to maintain quality within the PCN, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality

and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability

for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

Work effectively with individuals in other

agencies

Effectively manage own time, workload and

resources

In the course

of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,

sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right

to expect that staff will respect their privacy, act appropriately and in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Patient facing

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with

multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as

an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests

Patient facing

medicines support

Provide patient

facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their

medicines in the practice.

Management of

medicines at discharge from hospital

Greenwich Health is the GP Federation for the Greenwich Borough and have a not-for-profit ethos. This means we reinvest all of our surplus into developing our staff, our organisation and to support our GP Practices in being sustainable for the future. We are committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and providing services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

o Occupational sickness pay entitlement

o Counselling services

o Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

o Cycle to Work Scheme

o Private Healthcare Membership - Benenden Healthcare

Qualifications

Essential: - - Masters degree in Pharmacy; - - Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience

Desirable: - Independent Prescriber

Experience

Professional Registration

Essential: - - Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable: - - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; - - Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Other