Deputy Head Medicine Management

Do you have a degree in Pharmacy and are a Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council? Are you available for a 6-month fixed term contract? Would you like to work for an expanding social enterprise? As the Deputy Head Medicines Management you will work to develop and deliver the medicines management and medicines safety agenda within Primary Care 24 (PC24).

The post-holder will work with clinical colleagues to ensure the highest standards of care are provided for all registered and temporary patients and will work across the organisation to become a core member of the team of healthcare professionals.

**Key responsibilities**

The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a Clinical Pharmacist working in General Practice and the out of hours setting including:

- Develop, produce, and implement medicines policies and procedures.
- Develop, produce, and implement medicines management strategies to ensure compliance with CQC, QoF, legislation and local quality frameworks.
- Develop, produce, and implement clinical audit in relation to medicines.
- Incorporate the objectives of medicines optimisation into every day general practice, including the aims of national and local strategies.
- Lead, plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the services.
- Undertake clinical structured medication reviews and repeat prescribing when necessary.
- Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and intermediate care, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes, and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
- Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through practice computer searches, including risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

**About you**
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Experience of medication review, face to face and remotely
- Experience of repeat prescribing and prescribing for long term conditions within competency
- Experience and knowledge of developing and undertaking clinical audit

**What’s on offer?**
- 6 Month fixed term contract
- £58,012 - £68,552 per annum, DOE
- Based in Litherland with travel required across Liverpool & Sefton
- Hybrid working optional
- NHS pension scheme
- 27 days annual leave per annum
- Casual dress working environment#
- Ride to work scheme
- Long service awards

**About us**

Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990, delivering NHS contracts exclusively. We follow agenda for change and offer an NHS Pension.

The majority of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHS with social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary care and caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £58,012.00-£68,552.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

- Degree in Pharmacy (required)
- Independent Prescriber V300 (required)

Work Location: In person