Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are groups of GP surgeries working together with a range of local providers, including community services, social care, and the voluntary sector. PCNs build on core primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated, and more integrated health and social care through delivery of national and local service specifications alongside PCN initiatives.
Keynsham Primary Care Network (PCN) incorporates St Augustine Medical Practice and West View Surgery. We deliver strong patient care to our 28,000-patient population working collaboratively as a team.
Within the PCN, our forward-thinking pharmacy team is experienced in building strong relationships with each other and the wider PCN team. The team is supported by the Clinical Director and PCN Manager.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary
The post holder is an experienced pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, to develop, lead, manage, and mentor a team of clinical pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians within Keynsham PCN. This will include clinical supervision sessions on a regular basis.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership to the Pharmacy team, Practices, and PCN. This may entail:
1. Leading on medicines optimisation and quality improvement initiatives
2. Identifying and implementing opportunities for improvement in prescribing practice
3. Overseeing clinical policy, protocol, and SOP development
4. Line managing and conducting probation and annual appraisals for Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians within the PCN
5. Advising and agreeing Clinical Pharmacists' learning and development needs
6. Leading on management of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services
Key Responsibilities
As the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, your key responsibilities are:
1. To reduce the medicines-related workload on doctors
2. Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
3. Provide support on medicines-related issues to the whole practice team
4. Provide leadership and line management to the PCN pharmacy team
5. Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
You should support the following clinical work:
1. 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
2. Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
3. Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
4. Care home/Frailty medication reviews
5. Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within the scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
You should also support the following practice development work:
1. Focusing on QOF Domains, improving disease registers
2. Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients, suggesting and recommending solutions
3. Prescribing Safety audits, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
4. Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff)
5. Actioning of MHRA safety alerts
Responsibilities underpinning the role:
1. To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare
2. To plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions for members of the practice team, patients, and carers
3. To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes
4. As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments
5. To attend local, regional, and national meetings of relevance as agreed with the post holder's line manager
6. To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the post holder's line manager
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional degree or diploma in relevant field or equivalent
* Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post-graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training
* Post-graduate learning to Masters level or equivalent
* Appropriate statutory professional body registration
* Successful completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
* Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties including extended role activities
* Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
* Holds an independent prescribing qualification
* Teaching, training or mentorship qualification or experience to the equivalent level
* Specific CPD modules relevant to specialist field
* Leadership and management qualification
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
* Experience in the specialist clinical field equivalent to working at advanced level 1 of the RPS pharmacy framework
* Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
* Experience in the leadership, supervision, and management of other staff
* Experience in the teaching and training of others in a variety of settings e.g., clinical, academic
* Working in community or primary care-based teams
* Experience of leading clinical audit
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.
Salary: £53,000 to £60,000 a year depending on experience.
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