Clinical Pharmacist in Skelton

As part of East Cleveland Group multi-disciplinary team, the post-holder will play a key role in developing and maintaining clinically and cost-effective prescribing provision across the network population - improving patient outcomes and helping to relieve service and financial pressures across the PCN. The role will include supported progression through the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, providing an exciting opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in relation to patient-facing, person-centred and integrated care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases undertaking clinical medication reviews to support the proactive management of complex polypharmacy patients. This will include, but not be limited to, elderly people in care homes, patients with multiple co-morbidities and those with learning disability and autism. The post-holder will additionally provide clinical leadership in the delivery of person-centred medicines optimisation, helping to support standardised approaches to care across the PCN and forging strong relationships with both specialist and community pharmacists to promote system-wide medicines optimisation and quality improvement. The post-holder will provide day-to-day support to practices and will be responsible for supporting and supervising Pharmacy Technicians. Ideally the post-holder will be a non-medical prescriber though there will be an opportunity to work towards a prescriber qualification following completion of the Pathway and this will be supported by the network as part of continued professional development.

About us

East Cleveland PCN consists of 5 member practices serving a patient population of approximately 42,000. The successful applicant will be expected to work in any of these practices to support with service delivery. East Cleveland PCN offers access to the NHS Pension scheme, 6 weeks paid annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff) plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff) and provides an employee assistance and benefits scheme.

Job responsibilities

Led by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and working alongside a wider team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the network, the post-holder will provide day-to-day support to practices in respect to prescription and medication queries. They will support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safe prescribing providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, whilst proactively and reactively addressing both public and social care needs of the network population. The post-holder will directly provide the duties outlined in the job description in addition to any other tasks deemed appropriate to the role.

Person Specification

• Skills Audit and quality improvement, including the review and analysis of data; risk/issue management and addressing quality/performance in practice
• Digital skills, including ability to access and competently use clinical systems and electronic transfer of prescriptions
• Strong clinical leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to apply effective clinical judgement in the prioritisation and decision-making aspects of the role
• Full driving licence

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Knowledge and awareness of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures relevant to the role
• Hold or be working toward an independent prescribing qualification (although this will be offered as part of the role)
• Qualified or enrolled on CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway (although this will be offered as part of the role)
• Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care Network arrangements and their contribution to the NHS 10-Year Plan
• Knowledge, awareness and experience of brief intervention and referral pathways that provide opportunistic advice and support for preventable illness and/or long-term conditions receptive to lifestyle/pharmacological support

Experience

• Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience
• Experience in conducting medication reviews
• Experience in developing and implementing new policies and processes to improve the quality and safety of practice, in the context of medicines optimisation
• Experience in supporting common acute and long-term conditions
• Experience of working in GP practice
• Experience in working in a care home setting in the capacity of providing patient-centred medicines optimisation support

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a year depending upon experience.