Senior Lead Pharmacist

1 week ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Brownlow Group Practice Full time

Job summary

BrownlowHealth is a large at-scale General Practice, based over four sites in CentralLiverpool. We serve 80,000 patients, and are part of Central Liverpool PrimaryCare Network, which incorporates 9 practices, covering 110,000 patientscity-wide. As well as providing traditional general practice to a diverseinner-city population across a wide demographic, we are also a large Universitypractice and serve several Inclusion Health groups. This includes but is notlimited to serving both homeless and Refugee and Asylum populations in Central Liverpooland supporting patients with issues related to substance misuse. We have alarge multidisciplinary work force, including a pharmacy team consisting of apharmacy manager, pharmacists, pharmacy techs and prescribing clerks. Ourvalues include being quality driven, accountable and readily adaptable. We aimto provide efficient, compassionate care to our patients, and recognise theimportance of the team in delivering this.

We are looking for a senior pharmacist to join ourpharmacy team to work alongside another two senior pharmacists to lead a largeteam of pharmacists, technicians and prescribing clerks.

Main duties of the job

Job responsibilities include patient facing clinical medication reviews, medicine information to practice staff and patients, repeat prescribing, medicines quality improvement, medicines safety.

Please see job description for full overview.

About us

Brownlow prides itself in being an exceptional employer. We have a dedicated staff wellbeing team and offer numerous staff benefits and incentives including protected study leave with financial allowance. You will receive a 6-month mentorship/induction package.

Brownlow is an organisation that is committed to equality and diversity, and we strive for our workforce to be representative and inclusive of the complex and diverse community which we are proud to serve. With this commitment in mind, we actively encourage individuals who self-identify as having protected characteristics to apply for this role. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from: individuals with linguistic diversity, members of the LGBTQ+ community; members of black, minority ethnic, and minority faith groups; and from those who are disabled and / or neurodiverse. We are mindful that we may not always be aware of structural and systemic factors, which might discourage or prevent certain minority groups and marginalised populations from applying to join our team. If you are aware that any such barriers do exist, please let us know so that we can work to overcome and dismantle these.

Extended access will form part of your contracted hours.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review:

Undertake by means of face-to-face clinics, domiciliary visits, telephone and virtual medication review.

Perform Structured Medication reviews for patients on both single medications, and polypharmacy patients.

Review the indication for each medicine, compliance, monitoring arrangements and ensure patients get optimal benefit from their medication

Make appropriate recommendations as needed

Review and completion of shared care agreements

Partake in an on-call pharmacy rota in hours, addressing on the day phone calls, queries and providing medicines support to the duty clinical team.

Undertake changes to patients medication from hospital discharge and clinic letters.

Undertake clinical drug reconciliation for new patients registered with the practice

Provide a comprehensive prescribing service to care homes in conjunction with care home MDT and named staff for each care home

To provide services linked to prescribing that improve patient access

Medicine information to practice staff and patients:

Handle relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams ( community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Repeat prescribing:

Assist GP practices with the implementation and delivery of their repeat prescribing policy

Service development:

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services linked to medicines management ( advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Please see attached job description for more information on the role and responsibilities.

Other job locations:

Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

155 Edge Lane Edge Hill Liverpool L7 2PF

2 Vauxhall Road Liverpool L3 2BG

Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY

Although we allow for some remote working (depending on the role) we want to make you aware that you will need to be based on-site in one of the Practices to carry out your duties. We would also like to state that you will need to reside in Liverpool (or within the near vicinity).

We require applicants whose native language is not English to demonstrate their competence in the English language. This can be demonstrated by:

- Providing Certification of English proficiency

If you are successful and are registered with any of the Brownlow or CLPCN sites you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

Ability to work on own initiative Ability to work with colleagues and services users in a non-judgemental manner Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with patients and outside agencies Excellent organisational skills Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information Ability to work to deadlines Ability to work flexibly Commitment to equal opportunities Full Driving License and access to a vehicle

Qualifications

Essential

Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience Independent Prescriber

Desirable

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 4 years post- qualification experience 2 years experience in primary care An appreciation of the nature of general practice An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions Good IT skills, including previous experience of EMIS web and EPS systems Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines Work effectively independently and as a team member Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Desirable

Evidence of Leadership within a team Evidence of involvement in systems change and policy development In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences ( patients) Produce timely and informative reports

Other Requirements

Essential

Self-Motivation Adaptable In date CRB Safeguarding adult and children level three Immunisation status Basic life support training Full Driving License Information Governance toolkit completion

Desirable

Information Governance toolkit completion

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