Calder & Ryburn PCN consist of four GP practices and have acombined patient list of over 43000 patients. We have grown as a collaborativePCN over the past six years and now have over 30 members of staff workingacross the PCN.
We have an exciting opportunity for anexperienced clinical pharmacist to join our growing team. We currently have fourpharmacists working across the four GP practices within our PCN and twopharmacy technicians who also support the team and work across the practices.Our team work closely together and support each other. The ideal candidate willwork well within a team and have good interpersonal skills as well being ableto work as part of multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Workingas part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
Support,promote and implement high quality, evidence-based, cost-effective, and safeuse of medicines.
Supportdelivery of the new network Directly Enhanced Service (DES) specifications.
Conductstructured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complexpolypharmacy.
Provideclinical medicines expertise to both patients and general practice teams.
Improveprescribing practices across the Primary Care Network.
Improveservice and quality through mechanisms such as clinical audits.
Interfacewith community and hospital colleagues to help resolve medication-relatedissues.
Assistwith delivery of enhanced health in care homes initiatives across the PCNfootprint.
Workcollaboratively with other pharmacy colleagues across the PCN footprint,including Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, to ensure andeffective and integrated approach to medicines optimisation for our population.
About us
Pennine GP Alliance is a member-led organisation made up of 19 GPpractices in Calderdale who form 5 Primary Care Networks (PCNs), collectivelyserving over 223,000 registered patients.
We work extremely closely with general practice but also inpartnership with other local healthcare providers with a purpose to ensureviable GP services remain at the heart of local communities, providingsustainable and high-quality patient-focused healthcare.
Join our team and experience a workplace that truly values growth,collaboration, and impact. We take pride in fostering a supportive andinclusive environment where every team member is encouraged to listen, learn,and lead. Together were dedicated to delivering better outcomes for GPpractices, and ultimately for the people of Calderdale.
At our organisation, your professional growth matters we arecommitted to providing the resources and opportunities you need for continuousdevelopment, ensuring you thrive both in your role and your career.
We look forward to receiving your application to join our team ofover 100 employees.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Duties
Performface to face medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, in practice andin patients homes (including care homes).
Throughstructured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications toget the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
Provideexpertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and socialneeds of patients in GP practices.
Discusscomplex and sensitive information with patients during medication reviewincluding medical histories, lifestyles, and personal circumstances and torefer on to other services and professionals as appropriate.
Improvepatient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with theirmedicines.
Provideleadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvementwhilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhancedservices.
Providegeneral practitioners with appropriate recommendations and action plansfollowing medication review clinics with patients to optimise the patientstreatment with medicines and ensure appropriate follow up with patients.
Recordmedication review plans, recommendations and outcomes on GP computer clinicalsystems and own clinical notes in accordance with practice procedures.
Reconcilemedicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into carehomes; identify and rectify unexplained changes; manage changes by referral tothe GP perform clinical medication review; support the production ofpost-discharge medicines care plans and work with patients and other pharmacycolleagues to ensure patients receive the medicines they need.
Supportthe processing of complex repeat prescribing medication requests made bypatients or other repeat prescribing queries.
Workin partnership with hospital clinicians to proactively manage patients at highrisk of medicine-related problems before they are discharged to ensurecontinuity of care.
Liaisewith the Practice Clinical team on prescribing and medication issues,especially around management of long-term conditions.
Developas an independent prescriber to manage and prescribe for patients within aspecific chronic disease area and within own areas of competence.
Withappropriate training, monitor the effects of medication by checking clinicalsigns (e.g., BP, pulse, etc).
Attendregular clinical supervision sessions to promote a culture of continuousprofessional development and shared learning.
Supportive Clinical Duties
Aspart of the multi-disciplinary team, attend relevant MDT Network meetings,providing information and feedback.
Reportmedicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root causeanalyses as well as participating in serious incident investigations andmultidisciplinary case reviews.
Delivertraining, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians are kept up to dateregarding changes in national and local medicines guidance and legislation.
Criticallyappraise clinical evidence and present information to prescribers viaprescribing meetings and educational events, as required.
Leadon medicines management governance arrangements to adhere to CQC standards,including assisting in developing policies and SOPs.
Reviewrepeats prescribing protocols and processes and support staff in theirimplementations.
Performprescribing audits and direct/supervise the audit activity of others.
Facilitategood working relationships between practices and local community pharmacists.
Beresponsible for delivering local prescribing quality initiatives incollaboration with CCG medicine management.
Developan effective network and working relationship with individual practice GPs,practice staff, CCG medicines management colleagues, secondary care, and otherprofessionals.
Safeguarding
Allmembers of staff have responsibility to ensure the Safeguarding of patientswithin the organisation.
Ensureknowledge of Safeguarding policies and training is up to date.
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintainquality within the organisation, and will:
Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision
Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
Developand maintain effective working relationships with colleagues.
Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectivelymanage own time, workload, and resources.
Actcorporately as a member of the team and take a shared responsibility for thedevelopment of strategy, effectiveness and culture of the team and theorganisation.
Communication
The post-holder should recognise theimportance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicateeffectively with team members and other stakeholders, including shareholders,contract holders, subcontractors, practice managers and other practice staff.
Communicateeffectively with patients and carers.
Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation ofServices
Applyrelevant policies, standards, and guidance of practice within which you work.
Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work.
Participatein audit where appropriate.
This role profile is not exhaustive, and you may bedirected to complete other tasks according to the skills and requirements forindividual roles. These duties will always be reasonable and deemed within theexpectations of you position.
Other responsibilities
Tomaintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, andissues in relation to the specific client group, mental health and communitycare delivery.
Tocomply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes inthese. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and localpolicies and procedures implementing this.
Toensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and inaccordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.
Tocomply with all relevant organisations policies, procedures, and guidelines,including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety andConfidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.
To comply at all times with the PGPAsInformation Governance related policies. Staff are required to respect theconfidentiality of information about staff, patients and PGPA business and inparticular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiableinformation in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff is responsible forensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, andfit for the purposes for which it is intended.
Person Specification
* Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities.
* Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative.
* Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
* Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
* Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
* High level of written and oral communication skills.
Experience
* Knowledge of IT systems and ability to grasp new systems quickly.
* Evidence of experience as a pharmacist demonstrated.
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
* Experience of patient consultation.
* Experience of working with GPs
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
* General Practice and/or PCN experience.
* Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
* In depth, therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
* Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
* Knowledge of General Practice clinical systems, such as, EMIS and SystmOne. Able to plan, manage, monitor, and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
Other requirements
* Flexibility to work outside core office hours.
* Maintain confidentiality at all times.
* Full UK driving licence.
Qualifications
* Vocational 4-year masters degree in pharmacy.
* 1 year pre-registration training.
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Non-medical prescriber registration.
* Advanced assessment and history taking skills or be willing to enrol in a current training pathway to develop these.
Skills
* 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).
* Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals and demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure.
* Able to provide leadership and finish work tasks.
* Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines.
* Good critical appraisal skills.
* Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
* Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
* Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
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.
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