Clinical Pharmacist - Tunbridge Wells Primary Care Network

Clinical Pharmacist - Tunbridge Wells Primary Care Network

Are you an enthusiastic pharmacist looking to move in to ordevelop your existing career within primary care?

Looking to have direct impactand decision making on patient care?

Then join West Kent Primary Care andbecome a vital member of our Tunbridge Wells Primary Care Network team as a PCNClinical Pharmacist. We are looking to expand our existing well establishedclinic pharmacy team of 8 clinical pharmacists and 5 pharmacy technicians, byrecruiting a further clinical pharmacist who are passionate aboutdeveloping their skills in General Practice.

This role offers a distinctive opportunity to work as anindependent practitioner and join a dynamic and committed primary care team,delivering high quality, friendly patient services to our community. You willfoster a culture of excellence and knowledge sharing to ensure the highestlevel of care for our patients. If you do not have experience in this area ofcare but you can demonstrate a robust clinical background, we will support yourlearning.

Tunbridge Wells PCN comprises of 8 practices covering 86,000 patients. Our pharmacists are given base practices to work from. Our PCN team as a collective are proactive and innovative withservices being delivered by not only our large clinical pharmacy team but alsoby first contact paramedics, first contact physiotherapists, Mental HealthNavigators, Care Co-ordinators, a dedicated pharmacy team for our local carehomes and more.

Interviews planned for Friday 26 September.

Main duties of the job

The pharmacists will develop, enable, and support a cultureof multidisciplinary care with a focus around developing PCN services in linewith national and local specifications. Working directly with various practiceteams; this role will directly link to colleagues in community and acutesettings ensuring patient health and outcomes are met in a collaborative andinnovative environment. The Pharmacist will support evening and weekendextended access clinics working on a rota the other PCN staff. Our current setup is one remote evening per week and one in six Saturday morning on siteclinics

The role will require a commitment to register on the CPPE pathway and Independent Prescribers Course (if these havent previously been completed), which we will fully support you in by providing you with time to attend training sessions plus a GP clinical supervisor and peer support.

You will collaborate closelywith GPs and other Healthcare Professionals, conducting patient consultationsboth via telephone and face to face, assisting with care plans for long termcondition management (including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, asthma,diabetes and more), updating records, ensuring patient safety and managingpatients within the appropriate care setting plus undertaking audits to ensurepatient medication safety.

We reserve the right to close the advert before the closing date. Early applications are encouraged.

About us

West Kent Primary Care will act as employer for this role. We are a collaborative and ambitious GP Federation working with GP practices across Sevenoaks, Weald, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Malling, and Maidstone to improve General Practice provision in the area. West Kent Primary Care are a supportive and friendly organisation whose aim is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

What we can offer:

• Favourable terms and conditions
• NHS Annual Leave entitlement
• NEST and NHS Pension
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave
• Paid sick leave
• Training, support, and development in your career
• Flexible working arrangements
• Recognition via Employee of the Month scheme
• Wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
• A comprehensive induction into the company followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role

Due to the geographical location, it would be beneficial to have a full driving license as travel will be required to practices across the PCN area.

Job responsibilities

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
• Perform face-to-face medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy, especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities and prescribe alternative medications.
• Undertake face-to-face reviews of patients with specific long-term conditions that fall within their competency (such as asthma reviews).
• Carry out Improved Access and Extended Hours sessions, including some weekend work.
• Provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing aspects of medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship.
• Contribute to practice financial stability through optimisation of medicines related targets in QOF delivery.

Person Specification Qualifications

• University Degree in Pharmacy Sciences
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Registered Prescriber

Experience

• Experience in providing clinical advice and expertise on medicines to colleagues and patients
• Previous experience as a community, hospital or primary care based pharmacist
• Experience using MS Outlook and Calendar management.
• Experience of managing long-term conditions in a clinical setting

Knowledge and skills

• Able to use Microsoft Office applications with above average capability with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Skills for communicating complex information, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at a range of levels including Board members, patients, and colleagues.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to collect and analyse patient data to effectively diagnose and treat problems
• Skills for supporting project management and planning workload
• Basic knowledge of project principles
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
• Works well as an autonomous/independent practitioner and within a team
• Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
• Knowledge of structured medication reviews and producing recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
• Knowledge of medicines management at point of hospital discharge including patients living in care homes
• Knowledge and Understanding of the NHS Long Term (10 year) plan
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise
• Skills for manipulating information.
• Car Driver

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.