PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Oldham Central PCN is seeking aClinical Pharmacist to join our well established PCN pharmacy team. This is an excitingopportunity to join an innovative and supportive multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, providing clinical support within the PCN and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams in general practice. In this role you will receive appropriate clinical supervision. You will ensure practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise the skills mix within teams, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. Perform a patient facing role to include undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy in a variety of settings including the surgery, patient homes and residential care, and with a view to meeting demands of new workstreams in primary care. Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice.

You will be supported to develop your role to become a non-medical prescriber.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronicdiseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage peoplewith complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, thosewith multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) forencouraging the development of better understanding of the principles ofmedicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting goodpractice in line with national requirements, NICE implementation andutilisation of.

Actionclinical letters and discharge summaries, providing leadership on personcentred medicine optimisation and quality improvement. Assist with drugmonitoring including high risk drug monitoring, switching medications to agreedand approved protocols, Manage the repeat prescribingreauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicinesreaching review dates, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

About us

Oldham Central PCN compromises of eleven memberpractices with a joint patient population of 70,000 (approximately), each withits unique strengths and expertise. Our aim is to leverage these strengths andfoster collaboration among our network members to Deliver its key objectivescontained in the Directed Enhanced Service Contract (DES) from NHS England andNHS Improvement and enhance the quality and efficiency of care delivery and Byworking together, we can offer a wide range of services, support andcoordinated care effectively, and improve patient outcomes

Job responsibilities

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is anintegral part of transformation to develop a new model of care which addressesour ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the PCN. TheClinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction ofnational policy, where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacywithin primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out ofhospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.

Clinical Pharmacist play a key role,complementing and working alongside the PCN pharmacy technicians and othermembers of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.

Ideally, the post holder will be aprescriber, or willing to complete training to become a prescriber. You will beresponsible be responsible for the care management of patients with chronicdiseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage peoplewith complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, thosewith multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) forencouraging the development of better understanding of the principles ofmedicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting goodpractice in line with national requirements, NICE implementation andutilisation of.

Action clinical letters and dischargesummaries, providing leadership on person centred medicine optimisation andquality improvement. Assist with drug monitoring including high risk drugmonitoring, switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, Manage therepeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeatprescriptions & medicines reaching review dates, minimising clinical riskand aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

Experience of community pharmacy,Primary or Secondary care would be beneficial to the role, we welcomeapplications from newly qualified pharmacists. It is a requirement of the PCNto complete the CPPE Pathway, The Clinical Pharmacist team will support youthroughout the pathway training, if not already completed.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Accredited masters degree of pharmacy Degree (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Completed, or working towards, a Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway qualification (CPPE)
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Can work independently on a day-to-day basis and able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Email, telephone & online meetings)
• Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from education, training, and experience
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Experience of using EMIS
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data

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.