Lead Clinical Pharmacist in Shoreham-by-Sea

Adur Health Partnership (AHP) has an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to lead their pharmacy team. The role is predominantly clinical, providing face to face and phone medication reviews. It is advantageous, but not essential, for the candidate to be an independent prescriber and have completed the CPPE pathway. The pharmacist will also be involved in quality improvement work, audit and practice education. They will have a named pharmacy technician to supervise and will take a lead role in supporting the team. They will assist the technicians and care co-ordinators with medicines reconciliations and medicines monitoring when necessary. With the support of our executive and HR colleagues, they will contribute towards the appraisal and review process for their team. They will have a GP supervisor with protected time to regularly meet.

Main duties of the job:

• The Post holder will be an experienced Pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries to develop, manage and mentor a team of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and care co-ordinators to support Adur Health Partnership and Shoreham & Southwick Primary Care Network in all aspects of medicines optimisation.
• The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the Practice and PCN. This will include running patient clinics that are held face to face and on the telephone for medication reviews, quality improvement projects and medicines safety audits.
• The post holder will be supported by existing pharmacists, a GP clinical supervisor and the Practice prescribing lead.
• The lead pharmacist will ensure that the practice also integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help improve patient outcomes and ensure better access to healthcare.
• The post holder will be required to enrol on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (CPPE) if not already completed.

About us:

Adur Health Partnership (AHP) is a large, innovative GP partnership based over 4 sites in Shoreham and Southwick which is also one Primary Care Network (PCN) currently serving over 36,000 patients. Our pharmacy team consists of 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacy technicians and 2 pharmacy care co-ordinators. They are based at the Northbourne site but the pharmacists do clinics across 3 of our sites, which are in close proximity. The partnership is highly supportive with a strong sense of 'team'; continually striving to improve the health and well-being of our registered patients. We are also committed to the support and ongoing development of our staff.

Job responsibilities:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients (face to face and on the phone) using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Independently prescribing or committed to completing training to become a prescriber.
• Leading in all medicines related issues for the PCN.
• Reviewing and implementing systems for safer prescribing.
• Providing support and guidance to the pharmacy team, covering areas such as role development, training and workload management.
• Supporting colleagues and patients with medicines related queries.
• Contributing to the development of clear plans to deliver the PCN DES Contract, QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes.
• Undertaking clinical audits.
• Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost-effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial).
• Addresses both the public health and social care needs of patients.
• Contributes pharmaceutical advice for the implementation and delivery of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways etc).
• Works with other general practice teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines management is involved.
• Work collaboratively with the Clinical and senior management team.

Please see full job description for further responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification:

• 3 years pre-registration training.
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with internal and external agencies/stakeholders.

• Ability to manage a team and provide individual clinical support and mentorship.
• Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft office tools.
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
• Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information and present information in a clear way.
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence and motivate the audience to comply with recommendations/course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• Understanding of research principles.
• Ability to develop, implement and embed policy and procedure.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community pharmacy teams, hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Interpret data to draw conclusions.

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent + 1 year pre-registration training.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Holds or works towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Membership of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA).
• Successful completion of the CPPE general practice pharmacist training pathway.

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.