**Applicants must be an independent Prescriber and completed an approved training pathway.** For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)
Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supporting the delivery of the Network Contract DES Service specifications. These roles are critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes in practices, care homes and domiciliary settings.
Please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.
*Please Note: the PCN is unable to sponsor any overseas applications; please only apply if you are legally able to work in the UK.
*Please also note: SWAGGA PCN Ltd strives to align with Agenda For Change and its principles where possible. It is not contractually bound by Agenda For Change and its terms and conditions.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.
- Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.
- Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.
- Provide patient‑facing clinical sessions, concentrating on achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified patient cohort.
- Work to ensure medicines‑related service requirements of the PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to help nurture a robust team.
- All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team and in line with the NMP Policy.
- The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK Drivers Licence is therefore essential.
About us
SWAGGA Primary Care Network is a collaboration of 15 GP Practices geographically aligned and working together to improve patient care. SWAGGA PCN has a weighted patient population of approximately 100,000 patients. It is an extensive Network with a diverse population and patient needs.
Our Network Team work across these practices, aiming to improve our patient's well‑being and address health inequalities in South Liverpool.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Applicant must be an Independent Prescriber.
- Completed an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).
- Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments.
- Primary Care Experience.
- Experience of in‑depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices.
- An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice.
- Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these.
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
