Sherborne PCN Clinical Pharmacist

This vacancy is for an experienced, caring Pharmacist to join our friendly, established team in Sherborne. As a Pharmacist, you will provide expert clinical advice on medicines and polypharmacy, ensuring the provision of safe, modern medicines and personalised care. You will take a proactive role in medicines optimisation, in line with contractual obligations and expected standards. Support the repeat prescription service and undertake medication reviews. Deliver an integrated, safe, cost-effective and high-quality pharmacy service, as part of a comprehensive healthcare package based on our population needs. Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team of pharmacy technicians and the wider healthcare team in order to maintain a good working environment.

Advertised as full time, there is some scope for the right candidate to work reduced hours across three or four days.

Main duties of the job:

• Work closely with the GPs and other healthcare staff to promote good practice in all prescribing decisions, to develop and implement improved medicines management.
• Help to reduce waste whilst maintaining the focus on patient safety and well-being.
• Share information relating to pharmaceutical products, medicines management, medicines optimisation, medicines legislation and general health education so that patients and colleagues are appropriately informed.
• Be responsible for an area of chronic disease management.
• Support the general practice staff with prescription and medication queries and help to enable partnership working with community pharmacies and secondary care.
• Help to recognise and improve processes, supporting the team to continue to deliver excellent healthcare.
• Analyse data to produce reports and recommendations to support population health management, helping the team to complete projects through to a successful and timely conclusion.

About us:

You will need to be flexible and used to working independently, whilst forming part of a wider team. Sherborne has a team of three Prescribing Pharmacists and three Pharmacy Technicians who work the majority of their week at one of our three practices, serving a total patient list of approx. 25,000. You will be contributing directly to the ongoing health needs in our community, in this vital patient-facing role.

Employed by the Sherborne Area Primary Care Network, the successful applicant will work primarily at one practice, to support the delivery of care to all our patients.

Job responsibilities:

• Possess a positive attitude to collaborative working, with a focus on providing the best quality care, timely and effectively.
• Deliver complex and sensitive information appropriately to patients, and deliver educational sessions/information to other healthcare professionals.
• Be adaptable, with excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Work on your own initiative, organising workload, and work well as part of a team.
• Be used to working in a busy environment, able to cope well with change.
• Understand the need for confidentiality and adherence to policies.

This post is for 30 hours per week across four days, although there may be some scope for the right candidate. Salary will be according to experience.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Registered pharmacist
• Primary Care Pharmacy Education Program (PCPEP)
• Independent prescriber
• IT literate with experience of analysing data, compiling reports and audits
• Awareness and compliance with national standards of hygiene, infection control, professional requirements and best practice guidelines
• Managing patient consultations
• Dangerous drug (such as DMARDs & DOAC) monitoring

Desirable:

• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience in Conducting Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) with patients
• Willingness to take responsibility for an LTC

Experience:

• Compliance with all national and practice health and safety policies and clinical governance, following agreed safe working conditions, immediately reporting any incidents or hazards.
• Improve compliance in patient medication.
• Input and maintain patient record entries timely, ensuring correct use of codes.
• Promote cost-effective, high-quality prescribing.
• Maintain all required training, making effective use of knowledge and skills.
• Acknowledge the key challenges of demand, capacity, and activity. Help identify possible solutions with the focus on best practice, cost effectiveness and quality of healthcare.
• Support achievement of targets across individual practices and the PCN. Reporting on contractual requirements and areas of clinical focus, to support population health management.
• Maintain awareness of Safeguarding procedures, applying relevant legislation.
• Maintain confidentiality, complying with GDPR, Data Protection and Caldicott guidance.
• Provide feedback and data enabling the PCN to maintain and improve protocols and procedures, supporting the PCN to achieve Dorset ICB Prescribing Improvement in Neighbourhood Health (PINH) goals, or the equivalent.
• Provide patients with personalised care, according to NHS and NICE guidelines.

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.