Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
THIS JOB ADVERT IS BEING ADVERTISED FOR NORTH SOLIHULL PRIMARY CARE NETWORK BY MLCSU
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to join the Sheldon Primary Care Network (PCN). You will be working alongside our team of enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians that provide support to 4 different Practices for a total of OVER 39,000 patients.
Main duties of the job
You will also have the opportunity to work with our other highly-skilled PCN staff including GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Paramedics, and Physiotherapists. Not only will you gain a wide breadth of knowledge working alongside other healthcare professionals, but you will also gain invaluable experience working within a wider multi-disciplinary team.
Upon commencing employment, you will be working with the PCN team to support the delivery of the Pharmacy work plan for the PCN. If you are an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to further develop or wanting to make your next big career move then this could be the ideal role for you.
About us
North Solihull Primary Care Network consists of 11 practices located in various sites across Chelmsley Wood, Smithswood, Kingshurst, Sheldon, Marston Green, and Castle Bromwich.
As a PCN, we cover a total population of over 80,000 patients with our purpose being to enable GP practices to work together in a collaborative way to develop and deliver network-based services that respond to the needs of the local population. Our aim is to sustain real improvements in both the care of our patients and our working lives.
We pride ourselves on providing excellent clinical support and care to our practice colleagues and patients, and with this in mind, we are committed to the development of our teams. Training and educational events form part of the support on offer to ensure you can reach your potential and our patients get the best care available.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to further enhance our PCN team. If this is you, apply now!
Job responsibilities
* The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role, they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist and GP leads who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. Their line manager will be the PCN Manager. They will work autonomously and travel between surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
* The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Within each practice, this will include GPs, nurses, HCAs, and administrative staff. As the PCNs develop, this will include social prescribing link workers, physiotherapists, paramedics, and other additional roles as proscribed nationally. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
* The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage proactively patients with complex polypharmacy. Areas of focus might include CVD, COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, Frailty, etc.
* The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. This may be face to face in surgery, patients' homes, care homes, via telephone consultation, or via online working. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and manage 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). They may run minor ailment clinics in surgery as appropriate for a pharmacy-led clinic.
* 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.
* The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates 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. The post holder will be supported to develop their role, if not already, to become a non-medical prescriber.
* Upon employment, enrolment in the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway is essential.
Have a clean UK driving licence and access to a car to ensure support to multiple sites across the PCN can be given. Or have a plan to gain a UK driving licence.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Qualifications
* Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
* Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Other
* Safeguarding adult and children level three
* Full UK Driving Licence
Skills
* Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients).
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.
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
Depending on experience
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