Sherborne PCN Clinical Pharmacist

This vacancy is for an experienced, caring Pharmacist to join our 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.

Main duties of the job include:

• Working closely with the GPs and other healthcare staff to promote good practice in all prescribing decisions, developing and implementing improved medicines management.
• Helping to reduce waste whilst maintaining the focus on patient safety and well-being.
• Sharing information relating to pharmaceutical products, medicines management, medicines optimisation, medicines legislation and general health education so that patients and colleagues are appropriately informed.
• Being responsible for an area of chronic disease management.
• Supporting general practice staff with prescription and medication queries and enabling partnership working with community pharmacies and secondary care.
• Recognising and improving processes, supporting the team to continue delivering excellent healthcare.
• Analysing data to produce reports and recommendations to support population health management.

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 approximately 25,000. You will be contributing directly to our population's ongoing health needs in this vital patient-facing role. Employed by Sherborne Primary Care Network, the successful applicant will work primarily at one practice, to support the delivery of care to all our patients.

Job responsibilities: The skills required for this role include a positive attitude to collaborative working, with a focus on providing the best quality care, timely and effectively. You will possess the ability to deliver complex and sensitive information appropriately to patients and deliver educational sessions/information to other healthcare professionals. You will be adaptable, with excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. The successful candidate will be able to work on their own initiative, organising workload, and work well as part of a team. You should be used to working in a busy environment, able to cope well with change, and understand the need for confidentiality and adherence to policies.

This post is for 30 hours per week, 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.
• Experience in Primary Care and conducting Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) with patients.
• Willingness to take responsibility for a Long-Term Condition (LTC).
• Compliance with all national and practice health and safety policies and clinical governance, following agreed safe working conditions, immediately reporting any incidents or hazards.
• Improving compliance in patient medication and maintaining patient record entries timely, ensuring correct use of codes.
• Promoting cost-effective, high-quality prescribing and maintaining all required training.
• Acknowledging the key challenges of demand, capacity, and activity, helping identify possible solutions with a focus on best practice, cost-effectiveness and quality of healthcare.
• Supporting achievement of targets across individual practices and the PCN, reporting on contractual requirements and areas of clinical focus.
• Maintaining awareness of Safeguarding procedures, applying relevant legislation, and maintaining confidentiality, complying with GDPR, Data Protection and Caldicott guidance.
• Providing 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.
• Providing patients with personalised care, according to NHS and NICE guidelines.

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.