Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist with proven leadership qualities who is passionate about advancing clinical pharmacy services in primary care through collaborative working?
We are looking for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our growing pharmacy team to support and enhance the clinical pharmacy service at practice level. This is an exciting opportunity, in a new and innovative post, to be part of a developing team of pharmacy professionals, and to collaborate with an experienced lead pharmacist, to facilitate the development of our team, and the services it delivers, to meet the diverse needs of our patients.
The ideal candidate will be a registered pharmacist with significant clinical and quality improvement experience and ideally an independent prescriber. We are looking for an individual with leadership and management qualities, 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 practice team and work towards the PCN vision. Although prior experience in General Practice would be an advantage, pharmacists from other sectors with significant transferable skills will be considered for the role. You will be expected to enrol on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) if you have not completed already or can be exempted.
Interviews for this post will be held at Dunston Innovation Centre, face to face on the afternoon of Thursday 6 February 2025.
Main duties of the job
This role is to work across our North & West neighbourhood practices (Chatsworth Road (base), Whittington Moor & Newbold).
The post holder will be expected to:
1. Manage, motivate, support and develop a small team of clinical pharmacists and technicians.
2. Deliver patient-centred care through medication reviews, and long-term condition reviews.
3. Embrace innovative operational and clinical service development, to grow the capabilities of the clinical pharmacy team.
About us
The Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN, formed by ten member practices is one of the largest Primary Care Networks in the UK and covers circa 100,000 patients in North East Derbyshire. The PCN has an established and growing team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, who are embedded in practices across the PCN, and are committed to delivering high quality care for our patients.
Our mission: Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and wellbeing for all.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be the Senior member of a Neighbourhood Team of Pharmacists who 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 requests, 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 responsible for the day-to-day management and development of the pharmacists and technicians and the distribution of the pharmacist and technician resource within a Neighbourhood, liaising with the member practices and the PCN Pharmacy lead.
Key areas of Focus
1. Patient-facing medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
2. Leadership to practices and pharmacy team on quality improvement and clinical audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
3. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
4. Providing expertise in clinical medicines management while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).
5. Day to day management of the PCN pharmacists and technicians in the neighbourhood and agreeing allocation of the resource with member practices.
6. Working across and assisting with both practice and PCN requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience
* Clinical Diploma
* Independent Prescribing or currently working towards qualification
* Membership Primary Care Pharmacists Association
* Membership Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Knowledge and Skills
* In-depth therapeutic & clinical knowledge and an understanding of evidence based healthcare
* An appreciation of GPs and General Practice environment
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
* Ability to lead and manage a team
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to various audiences (e.g. patients)
* Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise & review general medicines optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions (LTCs)
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
* Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and able to refer to Leads or GPs when appropriate
* Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* Produce timely & informative reports
* Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade audience to comply with recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
* Work effectively independently and as a team member
* Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues.
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
* Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
Other
* Adaptable
* Self Motivated
* Appropriate Immunisation Status
* Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
Experience
* Experience of working in Primary Care
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.
£54,009.40 to £58,209.44 a year Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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