PCN - Clinical Pharmacist - Calow and Brimington Practice

Arc Primary Care; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Chesterfield is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join their team, focusing on delivering exceptional care. You will conduct medication reviews and collaborate with a diverse team to enhance patient outcomes. This position offers structured support and development opportunities, including non-medical prescribing qualification. Ideal candidates possess strong interpersonal skills, clinical knowledge, and a desire to improve patient care. Salary ranges between £48,035.66 and £53,390 annually, based on experience.

Benefits

NHS Pension with employer contributions

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Professional/study leave allowance

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Must have understanding of relevant standards of practice.
• Experience working in Primary Care is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical medicines management within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Deliver medication reviews for patients, including care home residents.
• Ensure continuity of medicines supply after hospital discharge.

Skills

Teamwork

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Clinical Diploma

Independent Prescribing (or in progress)

Job description

PCN - Clinical Pharmacist - Calow and Brimington Practice

Are you a pharmacist who is passionate aboutexploring a new opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in delivering excellencein patient clinical care?

The Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network is looking fora Clinical Pharmacist to join their growing Arc Primary Care Pharmacy Team towork alongside a team of Pharmacy Technicians and the practice team, in Calowand Brimington Practice, to developtheir knowledge and skill with keen support from the existing team, to meet thediverse needs of our patients.

We are looking for an individual who is committed to improving patientcare and is passionate about clinical pharmacy. The candidate must be able towork effectively as part of a diverse multidisciplinary team. Experience ofworking in general practice is preferable. However, due to the supportavailable through the established and supportive pharmacy team and practiceteams, pharmacists with limited general practice experience, including newlyqualified pharmacists, and pharmacists from other sectors with transferrableskills, would be considered. The post holder would be supported in enrolling on,and completing, the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), andthen an independent prescribing course, unless already completed.

Arc Primary Care is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offerstructured meritorious pay progression and NHS pension.

Interviews will be held at DunstonInnovation Centre on the afternoon of Thursday 29January

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies aspart of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management,patient-facing structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions,management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing,manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acuteprescription request, while addressing both the public health and social careneeds of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. They will be supported by senior andlead clinical pharmacists who will develop, manage and mentor them.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care andoperational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver anexcellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported todevelop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if that qualification isnot already held.

Calow and Brimington Practice is a friendly, dynamic and innovativepractice in the heart of the bustling village of Brimington, just outside ofthe picturesque Derbyshire town of Chesterfield. Calow and Brimington Practice isone of the ten practices in the Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN, which is one ofthe largest Primary Care Networks in the UK, delivering care to over 100,000patients combined. Whilst the role is integrated and embedded in one practice,it is part of a larger and growing team of pharmacy professionals across thePCN.

About us

Arc Primary Care is the umbrella organisation of the Primary Care Network (PCN) in Chesterfield and Dronfield. Arc Primary Care is an alliance of GP Practices.

Our members consist of 10 GP practices which cover a population of over 100,000 patients. At Arc we are committed to ensuring the sustainability of General Practice (and the time honoured valued of list-based general practice model) and realising the benefits of working together.

We deliver enhanced services within the PCN designed to support and enhance the services offered by our member GP Practices within Chesterfield. We do this by employing staff to work through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme and finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the changing needs of the Practices; we bid for contracts to help tackle health inequalities and drive up standards of care within the Chesterfield and Dronfield locality.

Our mission: Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and well-being for all.

Benefits of working with us:

• NHS Pension with employer contributions
• On appointment 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Entitlement of up to 5 days professional/study leave per annum, pro rata
• Access to Well-Being Support
• Blue light Card Discount
• Hybrid working arrangements can be discussed at interview

Job responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

Deliver clinics for patients requiring medication reviews,stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicines adherence reviews(including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-term condition/clinical reviews or holistic long-term condition/clinical reviews (structuredmedication reviews). Provide support for patients with questions, queries, andconcerns about their medicines.

2. Medicinesrelated clinical support for care homes

Deliver clinical medication reviews withpatients, care home staff and ageing well team, produce recommendations for the multidisciplinaryteam on medicines optimisation, prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff and ageing well teamto optimise medicines management, and support safe and effective prescribing,and medicines use.

Deliver reviews to patients with single or multiple medicalproblems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., Respiratory,Cardiovascular-Reno-Metabolic). Review the on-going need for each medicine, areview of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicinestaking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicinesoptimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPsfor medicine improvement.

4.Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews

Deliver clinical medication reviews with patients and producerecommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs onprescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary caseconferences.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm frommedicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might includerisks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. This includesprescription services software such as Eclipse Live Radar 500 searches.Wherever possible, technicians will be accountable for reviewing the results ofthese searches, with clinical pharmacists being responsible for supportingpharmacy technician's where managing high-risk patient's is outside the scopeof their competence, or directly covering during leave and exceptionalcircumstances.

6. Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated withunplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individualpatient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of thesemedicines to high-risk patient groups.

7. Management of medicines atdischarge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,intermediate care and into care Homes, including identifying and rectifyingunexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists toensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up andmanage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups ofpatients (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).

8. Medicine information topractice staff and patients

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, othernetwork staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries aboutmedicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up forpatients to monitor the effect of any changes.

9. Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcareprofessional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate timeperiod e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, longterm condition reviews etc.

10. Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewingpatient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reachingreview dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients haveappropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development andimplementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g., advice ontreatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

12. Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issuesand risks to support decision making.

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by theGPs and the PCN team, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunctionwith the relevant practice team.

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts,product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

15. Implementationof local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy'sRAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should beprescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amberdrugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that ishosted on each practices computer system.

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessmentguidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribingmessages.

16.Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team ontherapeutics and medicines optimisation.

17.Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices arecompliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

18.Public health

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialistknowledge on all public health programs available to the general public.

19.Collaborative working arrangements

As part of an integrated pharmacy team, foster and maintaincollaborative working relationships with practice teams, ICB colleaguesincluding medicines management pharmacy professionals, the ageing well team andsocial prescribing team, and all other relevant services across the PCN andother stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit the practice and its patients.

Work with your line manager to undertakecontinual personal and professional development, taking an active part inreviewing and developing the role and responsibilities.

Adhere to organisational policies andprocedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, informationgovernance, and health and safety.

Work with your line manager to access regular clinicalsupervision, to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues thatpeople present.

Reviewyearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within prioritiesset by others.

Participate in the delivery offormal education programs.

Demonstrate an understanding of currenteducational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keep up to date withrelevant clinical practice.

Research and Evaluation

Critically evaluate and review literature.

Identify wherethere is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

Generate evidence suitable for presentationsat practice and local level.

Apply researchevidence base into the workplace.

Health and Safety/Risk Management

Must comply at all times with the Health and Safety policies, inparticular following safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisation'sIncident Reporting Systems

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder must co-operate with allpolicies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients,and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin,age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Respect for PatientConfidentiality

The post-holder should respect patients' confidentialityat alltimes and notdivulge patient informationunless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Comply with the UK GDPR(2021), Data Protection Act (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

The post holder is required to travelindependently between work sites and to attend meetings etc. hosted by otheragencies.

Work aspart of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service andcontribute to business planning.

Undertake any tasks consistent with the levelof the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in atimely and effective manner.

Duties may vary from time to time, withoutchanging the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Follows professional & organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Membership Primary Care Pharmacists Association
• Membership Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Foundation training in primary care
• Clinical Diploma
• Independent Prescribing or currently working towards qualification

Other

• Adaptable and self-motivated
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Appropriate Immunisation Status
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes

Experience

• An appreciation of GPs and General Practice, including the relationship between GP, PCNs and ICBs in the context of the larger NHS and NHS funding.
• Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Excellent Interpersonal, influencing & negotiating skills, to make shared decisions in situations where barriers to this may be present
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills, including appreciation of different communication needs and skills
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to various audiences (e.g. patients)
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use clinical systems, word processing skills, spreadsheets and emails to communicate effectively, document consultations and code accurately and safely, and produce timely and accurate reports
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information with accuracy, appropriate management of errors and logical innovation of solutions
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and able to recognise limitations of own competence, referring to more senior clinical colleagues when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, including prioritisation, time-keeping and sustainable working, including when resource levels change
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more suitable colleagues when appropriate
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Experience of working in Primary Care
• In depth therapeutic & clinical knowledge and an understanding of evidence-based medicine, clinical terminology, medicines optimisation and shared decision-making
• Experience of collaborative working and building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise & review general medicines optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions (LTCs)
• Understand the systems of research governance
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

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.

£48,035.66 to £53,390 a yearDepending on experience