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Job Summary
Are you a pharmacist who is passionate about exploring a new opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in delivering excellence in patient clinical care?
The Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join their growing Arc Primary Care Pharmacy Team to work alongside an experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist, a Pharmacy Technician and the practice team, in The Surgery at Wheatbridge, to develop their knowledge and skill with keen support from the existing team, to meet the diverse needs of our patients.
We are looking for an individual who is committed to improving patient care and is passionate about clinical pharmacy. The candidate must be able to work effectively as part of a diverse multidisciplinary team. Due to the support available through the practice-based senior clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician, the practice team, and the larger pharmacy team, this role would be suitable for pharmacists with limited general practice experience, including newly qualified pharmacists, and pharmacists from other sectors with transferrable skills. The post holder would be supported in enrolling on, and completing, the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), and then an independent prescribing course, unless already completed. Practice-based/home-based flexible working arrangements are available.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, patient-facing structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if that qualification is not already held.
About Us
The Surgery at Wheatbridge is a supportive and innovative practice housed in an integrated care centre, alongside Wheatbridge Health Village, in the heart of Chesterfield. The Surgery at Wheatbridge is one of the ten practices in The Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN, which is one of the largest Primary Care Networks in the UK, covering circa 100,000 patients combined, in North East Derbyshire. Whilst the role is integrated and embedded in one practice, it is part of a larger and growing team of pharmacy professionals across the PCN, that is committed to delivering high quality care for our patients through collaborative working.
Arc Primary Care is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offer structured pay progression and NHS pension.
Interviews for this post will be held at Arc Primary Care, Dunston Innovation Centre, face to face, on the afternoon of Thursday 27th March 2025.
Benefits Of Working With Us
* NHS Pension with employer contributions
* On appointment 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff)
* Entitlement of up to 5 days professional/study leave per annum, pro rata.
* Structured pay progression.
* Hybrid working
* Access to Well-Being Support
* Blue light Card Discount
Salary
£46,336.47 to £50,641.50 a year Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Job responsibilities
* Patient facing medicines support: Hold clinics for patients requiring medication reviews, stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicines adherence reviews (including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-term condition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews). Provide support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
* Care home structured medication reviews: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients, care home staff and aging well team, produce recommendations for the multidisciplinary team on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
* Long-term condition Clinics: See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines. Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
* Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
* Risk stratification: Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
* Unplanned hospital admissions: Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
* Management of medicines at discharge from hospital: To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care Homes.
* Medicine information to practice staff and patients: Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams and patients with queries about medicines.
* Signposting: Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care.
* Repeat prescribing: Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions.
* Service development: Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components.
* Information management: Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
* Medicines quality improvement: Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and the PCN team.
* Medicines safety: Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
* Education and Training: Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
* Public health: To support public health campaigns.
* Collaborative working arrangements: Participate in the PCN MDT.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Skills and Knowledge Essential
* Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* Excellent Interpersonal, influencing & negotiating skills.
* Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
* Good IT communication skills.
Other Essential
* Adaptable and self-motivated.
* Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis.
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