PCN Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Luton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare collaborative in Luton is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to enhance services and patient outcomes. The role involves managing long-term conditions, conducting structured medication reviews, and providing leadership in medicines optimisation. Applicants should have a Master's in Pharmacy and relevant experience, with opportunities for supervision and professional development. Ideal for those eager to contribute to community health initiatives.

Benefits

Clinical supervision and mentorship

Accredited training and development

Engagement in public health campaigns

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge.
• Understanding principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with long-term conditions and conduct medication reviews.
• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation.
• Support public health campaigns.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Negotiating skills

Communication skills

Education

Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)

Postgraduate diploma or equivalent training

Job description

• The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and technicians in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
• The post holder will be supported to proactively manage patients within their scope of practice and those with complex polypharmacy with a focus on structured medication reviews in an area of interest.
• The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services under DES specification.
• The post holder will support integration between primary care, community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to work alongside and provide complementary skills to our existing clinical teams whilst building strong effective working relationships with local community and ICB Medicines Optimisation Team to improve care and services to our patients.

The successful applicants will have good clinical backgrounds and possess the requisite skills required to support safe, evidence based, clinically and cost-effective prescribing and provide support to general practice clinicians.

Experience in general practice is desirable but not essential and qualification as an independent prescriber would be an advantage. As a PCN pharmacist you will receive fully accredited training and will be provided with appropriate supervision and guidance.

For further details please see the attached Job and Person Description, informal enquiries are welcome.

About us

Hatters Health PCN, a collaborative of 5 friendly, pro-active practices in Luton, have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative clinical pharmacist to join our expanding Pharmacy team. The role will involve working independently and within a highly motivated additional roles team to support delivery of PCN objectives including structured medication reviews and to ensure enhanced outcomes for our patients. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, highly organised, professional who is looking to join a dynamic team working to support a diverse range of people from different cultural and social backgrounds. You will benefit from regular tutorials and clinical supervision including support to undergo CPPE pathway in primary care will be provided as required. The role provides the opportunity to be actively involved in how your role evolves over time including development in a specific long-term condition and the opportunity to work within a highly motivated, dedicated multi-disciplinary team. The PCN benefits from the support of the BLMK ICB Training Hub and we are enthusiastic about education. We are the first PCN in BLMK to successfully complete our application to become a PCN learning environment which allows us to take on a variety of students and further grow our multi-disciplinary team.

Job responsibilities

Manage patients within a specialised scope of practice i.e. a long-term condition of interest includes frailty. Carrying out structured medication reviews and optimisation of the condition. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for review. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions based on guidance. To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes. Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for further management where outside scope of practice Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Undertake clinical audits of prescribing laid out in the Primary Care Incentive scheme PCN DES and in relation to any other projects initiated by the PCN. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on medicines optimisation and safer prescribing. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience. In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare or evidence of extensive experience working in Primary Care
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving Prescribing. Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent) Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/ intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

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.