Clinical Pharmacist Ls25/26 Pcn in Ledston

We are looking for a further clinical pharmacist to join the existing LS25/26 PCN pharmacy team. The team consists of 1 lead pharmacist, 1 senior pharmacist, 5 clinical pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians, who are well supported by 2 Clinical Directors. We are excited to be recruiting an additional pharmacist for our PCN. The successful candidate will join our experienced and diverse PCN team, which in addition to pharmacists/pharmacy technicians includes Advanced Nurse Practitioners, social prescribers, health and wellbeing coaches, care coordinators and physiotherapists. This role will be hosted by South & East Leeds (SEL) GP Group, and you will be working in the LS25/26 PCN.

The pharmacy team aims to provide the best patient care possible. You will work in a patient-facing role, supporting patients to manage long-term conditions effectively through Structured Medication Reviews. You will work as part of the MDT and provide support to practices, care homes and patients with medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF/local incentive schemes, prescribing processes, audit and medicines safety. You will be a great team player, but also capable of independent, autonomous work. You will have excellent inter-personal skills and communication skills and be committed to providing exceptional patient care. There are plenty of support and training opportunities available. The role will be a mixture of working in practice and from home. Pharmacists from any sector with a passion for primary care are welcome to apply.

LS25/26 PCN has a patient population of circa 75,000 across 7 practices: Garforth Medical Practice, Gibson Lane Practice, Kippax Hall Surgery, Lofthouse Surgery, Moorfield House Surgery, Nova Scotia Medical Centre and Oulton Medical Centre. We are a dynamic, forward thinking PCN team who are passionate about developing and delivering excellent quality local services to meet the needs of our patients.

To support the South & East Leeds General Practice Group Practices with all aspects of medicines optimisation. The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:

• Management of long-term conditions
• Minor illness
• Management of medicines on transfer of care
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation
• Actioning acute prescription requests
• Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
• Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
• Undertaking clinical audit

The specifics of the role in each PCN will be worked up between the post-holder, the PCN and SEL GP Group. The post holder will be supported by existing practice employed pharmacists within the PCN (where these exist), a GP clinical mentor and the head of clinical pharmacy for SEL GP Group. They will also engage with pharmacy colleagues across Leeds for peer support. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held, and will be required to enrol on the General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE unless an equivalent qualification is already held or exemption is agreed by CPPE.

Key duties and responsibilities (Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS England that this role is patient-facing in nature.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Additional information

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.