Location: Washington PCN
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours / Sessions: Full time, 37.5 Hours
Main duties of the job
Working within your professional and clinical boundaries as part of an established multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in all areas of medicine related practice in a patient-facing role.
Working in partnership with various organisations to improve the quality and safety of care offered to our patients. Using independent prescribing to support better access to medicines, clinical medicines management, provide face-to-face structured medication reviews, tackling polypharmacy, and manage long-term conditions.
To manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing including managing repeat prescriptions, acute prescription requests, and antibiotic stewardship, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients across the primary care network practices.
To ensure that PCN practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload.
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.
About us
Sunderland GP Alliance is owned by the GP Practices of Sunderland and helps GPs work collaboratively for the benefit of patients and staff. We are a not-for-profit organisation, ensuring any surplus is reinvested back into better services for patients.
By working together, our General Practice community is able to provide innovative services across the city and work collectively with other key system partners. You'll find great examples of this approach across our website including information on our Enhanced Access service, Clinical Pharmacist provision, and ECG service.
We also run a number of practices where we aim to provide the best possible services for patients. All of our practices (where inspected) have been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission.
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The focus of the post holder's work will depend on the qualifications, skills, and experience of the individual and the needs of the PCN Practice(s) both of which may develop over time. Therefore, the breadth of duties are outlined in the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* The post holder must either have completed the CPPE primary care pathway or be willing to work towards it
* UK driving licence
* UK work permit (if required)
* Clinical diploma or other post-graduate qualification
* Independent prescriber or working towards qualification
* Minimum of two years post-qualification experience
Experience
* Appreciation of General Practice and working alongside General practice staff
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare including clinical audit
* Minimum of two years post-qualification experience
* Direct experience of primary care
Motivation and Skills
* Ability to motivate self and other members of the team
* Drive and determination to promote and support the role of pharmacy staff in General Practice
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
* Able to influence, motivate, and persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
* Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
* Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Produce timely and informative reports
* Work effectively independently and as a team member
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
* Ability to work flexibly
* Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately
* Willingness to learn new skills and to problem-solve on a daily basis
* An understanding, acceptance, and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
* Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise, and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
Other
* Ability to travel and holds business car insurance
* Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
* Immunisation status
* Understands the principles of equality and diversity
* Commitment to addressing health inequalities and patient empowerment
* Hold up-to-date safeguarding adult and children level three training
* Hold up-to-date Information Governance training
* Hold up-to-date basic life support training
* The above will be provided as mandatory training if not already held.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Depending on experience £47,327.95 per annum
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