PCN Clinical Pharmacist

4 weeks ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Lakeside Healthcare Group Full time

Job summary

Lakeside Healthcare is continuing to expand its large team of Pharmacists across the organisation and its Primary Care Network member practices.

The role of Pharmacy within General Practice is part of an existing programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.

This innovative role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support and work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy Team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for our patients whilst working in line with evolving requirements of PCNs. Our Pharmacist roles are supported by a strong Pharmacy Technician team to ensure that Pharmacists can continue to work at the highest level.

This is a part-time post working 33 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a registered Clinical Pharmacist to undertake workstreams such as:

Quality and Safety Improvement working towards CQC requirements. Structured Medication Reviews. Repeat Re-authorisations. Medication Queries. Medicines Reconciliation. Chronic Disease Management including medication monitoring. The ideal candidate will be flexible, friendly and enjoy working as part of a busy team.

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Our values

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Team

Working within the South Peterborough PCN you will be part of a forward-thinking Primary Care Network comprising of four practices across South Peterborough.

We recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. You will be joining an established, dynamic and varied team, whose aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY:

The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews, managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.

The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.

The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.

Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics

See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required ( COPD, asthma). Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines ( medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing Care Home Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient facing Medicines Support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams ( community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplanned Hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients ( those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Service Development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components ( advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Operating arrangements:

Responsibility for one or more sites dependent upon patient list size. Based across one or more sites with the opportunity to work remotely from other sites. This is an evolving role and the responsibilities may augment over time in consultation with the post-holder. From time to time the post-holder may be required to work from other sites.

Other Tasks

Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the line manager dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.

Other administration and professional responsibilities:

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team. Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator. Ensure collection and maintenance of any required statistical information. Attend and participate in practice meetings as required.

Training and personal development:

Maintain professional registration with the GPhC. If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Evidence of CPD. Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent). Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.

Desirable

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience. An appreciation of the nature of Lakeside Healthcare as an organisation within the PCN framework. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing. Excellent interpersonal skills. 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, cares and practice staff). Good IT skills.

Desirable

Experience of working across multiple sectors of Pharmacy (Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, CCGs, Industry). Experience of working in general practice. Experience of using SystmOne. In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.

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