This senior pharmacist post sits within the Tunbridge Wells Primary Care Network, a group of eight practices covering 85,500 patients, and is employed by West Kent Primary Care. The role combines patient care, including face-to-face medication reviews, with leading the PCN clinical pharmacy team and line managing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Travel between practices is required and a full driving licence is beneficial. Fit turns on GPhC registration, CPPE primary care training and an approved 18-month training pathway, completed or in progress.
What the job involves
- Lead the PCN clinical pharmacy team to improve the quality and safety of patient care
- Co-ordinate the PCN pharmacy team with the PCN Head of Operations and senior colleagues
- Line manage clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Maintain own clinical pharmacy caseload within the team
- Carry out Improved Access and Extended Hours sessions, including evening and some weekend work
- Perform face-to-face medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy, frailty or multiple comorbidities, and prescribe alternatives
- Undertake face-to-face reviews of long-term conditions within own competence, such as asthma
- Manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing within the multidisciplinary team
- Lead quality improvement and clinical audit, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship
- Contribute to practice financial stability through medicines-related QOF targets
- Support delivery of NetworkContract DES and ARRS role requirements
What’s required
Qualifications
- University degree in pharmacy sciences
- Completed CPPE Clinical Pharmacy Programme for Primary Care
- Enrolled in, or qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent
Registration & licences
- GPhC registration
Experience
- Previous experience in primary care
- Knowledge of structured medication reviews and producing prescribing and monitoring recommendations
- Knowledge of medicines management at hospital discharge, including patients in care homes
- Experience of managing long-term conditions in a clinical setting
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced IT and keyboard skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Communicating complex information orally and in writing, to Board members, patients and colleagues
- Problem solving and responding to sudden, unexpected demands
- Collecting and analysing patient data to diagnose and treat problems
- Project support and workload planning, with basic project principles
- Time management and re-prioritising under tight, changing timescales, working autonomously and within a team
Nice to have
- Registered Prescriber
- Experience giving clinical advice and expertise on medicines to colleagues and patients
- Experience of leading and managing teams
- Knowledge of the NHS Long Term Plan
- Skills for manipulating information
- Full driving licence
What’s offered
- Favourable terms and conditions
- NHS annual leave entitlement
- NEST and NHS pension
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave, and paid sick leave
- Training, development and comprehensive induction
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee of the Month recognition
- Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
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