Job summary This is an exciting opportunity to join our progressive team as a clinical pharmacist working across Heywood primary care network (PCN), Greater Manchester. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated pharmacist to join our team of PCN based pharmacists and technicians and will have access to peer support and development opportunities as part of our MDT. This is an on-site position for a 3 days ( 22.5 hours ) per week. Candidates should hold an independent prescribing qualification and CPPE PCPEP trained. Please note salary stated is pro rata and will be dependent on experience. Please ensure your contact details are on your CV. Main duties of the job The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face 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 request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the 5 GP practices that make up Heywood PCN. The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities and long term conditions. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. 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 Heywood PCN is a group of 5 GP practices serving a patient population of 35,000 patients. We pride ourselves on innovation and flexibility of locations and methods to deliver high-quality, accessible healthcare. Date posted 14 January 2025 Pay scheme Other Salary £42,000 to £47,000 a year Depending on experience. Pro rata Contract Permanent Working pattern Part-time Reference number B0363-25-0000 Job locations The Old Post Office No 2 The Esplanade Rochdale Greater Manchester OL16 1AE Job description Job responsibilities The following list of duties encompasses a range of areas the networks may require the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver. The list may not be exhaustive. Long-term conditions See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes). Review the on- going 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). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing Care Home Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Unplanned hospital admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. T elephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into Care Homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes). Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. Repeat prescribing Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Collaborative working arrangements Participate in the PCN MDT. Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit. Work as part of the RHA team and attend meetings/forums and supervision. Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks. Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to: 1. Patients and their representatives 2. GP, nurses and other practice staff 3. Social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics. 4. Community pharmacists and support staff 5. Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Dieticians 6. Locality / GP prescribing lead 7. Locality managers 8. Community nurses and other allied health professionals 9. Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation Job description Job responsibilities The following list of duties encompasses a range of areas the networks may require the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver. The list may not be exhaustive. Long-term conditions See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes). Review the on- going 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). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing Care Home Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Unplanned hospital admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. T elephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into Care Homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes). Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. Repeat prescribing Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Collaborative working arrangements Participate in the PCN MDT. Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit. Work as part of the RHA team and attend meetings/forums and supervision. Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks. Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to: 1. Patients and their representatives 2. GP, nurses and other practice staff 3. Social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics. 4. Community pharmacists and support staff 5. Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Dieticians 6. Locality / GP prescribing lead 7. Locality managers 8. Community nurses and other allied health professionals 9. Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation Person Specification Qualifications Essential -Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent) Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council. -Experience of working within primary care -Independent prescriber or working towards -CPPE Primary Care Pathway completed/working towards Desirable -Postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience. Experience Essential Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience. An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing. Desirable In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions. Skills Essential -Full clean Driving Licence -Basic IT skills Desirable -Safeguarding adult and children level three Person Specification Qualifications Essential -Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent) Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council. -Experience of working within primary care -Independent prescriber or working towards -CPPE Primary Care Pathway completed/working towards Desirable -Postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience. Experience Essential Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience. An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing. Desirable In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions. Skills Essential -Full clean Driving Licence -Basic IT skills Desirable -Safeguarding adult and children level three 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. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information 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. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Rochdale Health Alliance Address The Old Post Office No 2 The Esplanade Rochdale Greater Manchester OL16 1AE Employer's website https://rochdalehealthalliance.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)