Job Summary
Purbeck PCN are currently seeking an experienced Pharmacist to work 37.5 hours per week leading the Pharmacy service for our network. Part-time hours would be considered.
The individual will be expected to act within their professional boundaries, to develop, manage and mentor a team of pharmacists by providing clinical leadership and supervision.
The post holder will ensure that networks integrate with community and hospital pharmacy services to 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 Primary Care Networks.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people with multiple co-morbidities.
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, 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 patients in the GP practice(s).
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.
About Us
Purbeck PCN is made up of 6 member Practices and works closely with the wider locality to improve and enhance patient care. Purbeck PCN is committed to delivering an integrated neighbourhood team approach within the community and works to improve patient access to local services, by working with many sectors including the voluntary sector, mental health services, Help & Care, and Dorset Mind.
Date Posted: 19 February 2025
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time
Reference Number: A2472-25-0003
Job Locations
Bere Regis Surgery, Manor Farm Road, Bere Regis, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 7HB
Swanage Health Centre, Railway Station Approach, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 1HB
Corfe Castle Surgery, Toms Mead, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5HH
Wareham Surgery, Streche Road, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4PG
Sandford Surgery, Tyneham Close, Sandford, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 7BQ
The Wellbridge Practice, Meadow Lane, Wool, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 6DR
Job Responsibilities
Clinical
* Consult with patients in multi morbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients' medicines, including deprescribing.
* Manage own caseload and run long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component.
* 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 (i.e. medicines optimisation).
* Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
* Manage own caseload of care home residents when required. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
* Manage own caseload of vulnerable patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.
* Provide patient-facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
* Provide telephone consultations for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
* Provide extended access services for the practice and the patients when required.
* Answer medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
* Devise and implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines.
* Reconcile medicines at transfer of care, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.
* Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
Managerial
* Lead a team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
* Ensure all pharmacists are engaged with the review and appraisal systems within the PCN.
* Act as a role model demonstrating effective clinical leadership.
* Conduct teaching and assessment effectively.
* Participate in maintaining systems for risk assessment and minimisation.
Please refer to the attachment for the full job description.
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