Location Practice based: No hybrid working available
Salary - Dependent upon experience
Hours: Minimum of 30 hours over 4 days.
Wokingham North PCN is looking for a highly motivated Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our team of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and be part of our growth and development.
The post holder will be an independent prescriber, with preferred experience of managing a small team and working within a hub environment. They will be passionate about leadership and development of staff as well as clinically excellent.
The post-holder will work with the PCN Clinical Directors and Senior Practice Partners to provide safe and effective clinical pharmacy provision across the entire PCN comprising of 3 GP practices.
Main duties of the job
* Provide leadership on all medicines-related issues for the PCN.
* Lead and develop a pharmacy team, provide support, and manage employee relations issues for direct reports.
* Support integration of general practice with wider healthcare systems to improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and manage general practice workload.
* Support patients with long-term conditions, prescribing as an independent prescriber for relevant conditions.
* Develop and manage new services based on new medicines or NICE guidance, such as care pathways for new oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
* Review medication needs and support patients in optimising their medicine use.
* Conduct clinical medication reviews, making changes within the scope of practice or referring to other professionals as needed. Home visits may be required.
* Develop patient facing clinics for you and your pharmacy team within the scope of practice and interest.
* Ensure PCN compliance with CQC standards related to medicines.
* Provide extended hours services as part of the wider network.
* Ensure QOF, PQS and QUIPP targets are met.
About us
Wokingham North PCN comprises 3 GP practices: Parkside Family Practice (17,200), Wargrave Surgery (7,700) and Woodley Centre Surgery (13,800). The post-holder will work across all 3 practices and will be assigned a lead clinical and operational contact for each practice. This post is part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for PCNs funded by NHS England.
Job responsibilities
They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a clinical role and will have senior leadership responsibilities.
They will manage a team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the 3 practices. They will provide clinical supervision, training, support and mentorship. They will set objectives within the team that match both the professional development of each team member and the priorities of the three surgeries. They will develop the clinical skills of the Pharmacy Team within their scope of practice and allocate work accordingly, with direction from the 3 practices. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
They 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, medicine 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 patients in the GP practices.
They will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services and contribute to the delivery of the local medicines optimisation strategy.
They will ensure that the practices liaise with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. 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.
Person Specification
Experience
* At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting.
* Experience of managing and developing a team of pharmacy clinicians.
* Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling.
* Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work.
* Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice.
* Experience of managing and developing a Pharmacy Team.
* Experience of delivering training sessions to various clinical groups.
Qualifications
* Masters degree in pharmacy - MPharm or equivalent.
* Registered with GPhC.
* Member of RPS.
* Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications such as clinical, community, therapeutics or equivalent.
* Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development.
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.
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