Overview
Riverside Health Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to lead an excellent team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and medicine coordinators. This role will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at Riverside Health Partnership, driving positive changes in healthcare for local people. We are looking for a professional who has a prescribing qualification and has proven management experience with skills to lead a team.
Responsibilities
* To work as part of the management team in the practice and support with achieving efficient and effective prescribing activities.
* To promote high quality, cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines within primary care working alongside the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership.
* To provide leadership to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development.
* Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role, to provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
* Ensuring that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes.
* To develop effective protocols for the team to ensure efficient and effective processes are in place for patients.
* To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
* Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
* Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
* Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.
* Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
* Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care, through structured medication reviews.
* Support the integration of general practice with wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
* To assist and lead where appropriate in identifying cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines.
* To reconcile hospital discharge letters, ensuring that data provided is correct and updated on the clinical system.
* To participate in prescribing audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
* Answer medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Suggesting and recommending appropriate solutions and provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes as indicated.
* Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making across the primary care team.
* Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components, including the development of the practice based dispensary.
* To assist in reducing medication errors and implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
* Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved, including regular audits.
* To contribute to the PCN delivery of the highest possible quality standards.
* To maintain computerised records in accordance with data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality.
* To keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs, and their uses.
* To attend the practice meeting when required and represent the practice at locality Prescribing Leads Meetings with responsibility to inform the partnership of actions.
* Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCN and the wider health and social care system.
* To respond to patient complaints in accordance with the practice complaints procedure.
* To abide by the General Pharmaceutical Societys code of ethics, observing and applying all professional, ethical, and legal obligations.
Management Duties
* To provide management and leadership to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development.
* Promote a healthy safe and effective working environment that provides a high-quality service to patients.
* Always ensure adequate cover on a rota by suitably qualified staff to provide a robust 5-day service.
* Must be proactive in the future development of the team and work alongside the management team to achieve the practices strategic aims.
* Ensure regular audits of work across the team.
* To work independently and manage own time effectively.
* Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions.
* Co-ordinate and contribute to annual staff appraisals for the pharmacy team.
* To arrange regular meetings with the pharmacy and wider team.
* Work alongside the practice management team and attend meetings where required.
* To be a part of all recruitment in the pharmacy team.
* Ensure the team are up to date in all areas of training.
Qualifications
* Essential: Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
* Essential: Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge.
* Essential: Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Essential: Qualified prescriber.
* Essential: Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, in acute hospital, community pharmacy or community health services, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
* Essential: Experience of managing a team.
* Essential: Experience of working with the public.
* Essential: Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility.
* Essential: Experience in planning, developing and delivering pharmacy services.
* Essential: Excellent advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of PCNs, General Practice and evidence based medicine.
* Essential: Ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data.
* Essential: Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.
* Essential: Ability to communicate sensitive and complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients and carers, medical teams and other healthcare professionals.
Desirable
* Desirable: Completed Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Clinical Pharmacist 18-month training pathway.
* Desirable: Experience of working within primary care.
Additional Information
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details: Riverside Health Partnership, Riverside Walk, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 6FB. Employer's website: http://riversidehealth.co.uk/
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