Employer heading
Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist
Not applicable - See below for Salary
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Clinical Pharmacists to join the North Solihull Primary Care Network (full time and part time considered). Following the career progression of two colleagues, we are looking for two enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Pharmacists to join our Primary Care Network (PCN) in North Solihull. This is a pivotal role in improving patient care, supporting GP practices, and optimising the use of medicines across our population and you will be contributing to the delivery of high quality care across six GP Practices serving a patient population of ,.
As a Clinical Pharmacist within our PCN, you will work across a group of GP practices, supported by experienced GPs and multi-disciplinary team that includes GPs, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists, social prescribing and more. You will play a vital role in managing long-term conditions, carrying out structured medication reviews, and supporting safe prescribing. You will also be given the opportunity to run pharmacist-led clinics and, where appropriate, manage minor illnesses.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a GP lead who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. They will work autonomously and travel between allocated surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
2. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. This will include roles such as GPs, nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, paramedics, social prescribing link workers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and administrative staff. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
3. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage
Working for our organisation
North Solihull Primary Care Network consists of practices located in various sites across Chelmsley Wood, Smithswood, Kingshurst, Sheldon, Marston Green and Castle Bromwich.
As a PCN, we cover a total population of over, patients with our purpose being to enable GP practices to work together in a collaborative way to develop and deliver network-based services that respond to the needs of the local population. Our aim is to sustain real improvements in both the care of our patients and our working lives.
We pride ourselves on providing excellent clinical support and care to our practice colleagues and patients and with this in mind we are committed to the development of our teams. Training and educational events form part of the support on offer to ensure you can reach your potential and our patients get the best care available.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to further enhance our PCN team. If this is you, apply now!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
4. The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a GP Lead / Mentor and GP leads who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. They will work autonomously and travel between surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
5. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. This will include roles such as GPs, nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, paramedics, social prescribing link workers, Health and Wellbeing
Coaches and administrative staff. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
6. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage proactively patients with complex polypharmacy. Areas of focus might include CVD, COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, Frailty, etc.
7. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. This may be face to face in surgery, patient’s homes, care homes, via telephone consultation or via online working. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s). They may run minor ailment clinics in surgery as appropriate for a pharmacy led clinic.
8. 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.
9. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
10. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post holder may be supported to develop their role, if not already, to become a non-medical prescriber.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
11. Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
12. Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
13. A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
15. Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
16. Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Other
Essential criteria
17. Safeguarding adult and children level three
Desirable criteria
18. Full UK Driving Licence
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
19. Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
20. Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
21. A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Skills
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
22. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences patients)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
23. Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
24. Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
25. Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
26. In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
27. An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
28. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
29. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences patients)