Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

We are looking for somebody who shares our idea of what a PCN should be - supportive of its member Practices, effective and innovative. You'll be prepared to work hard to look after your patients and work with the lead clinical pharmacists, wider multidisciplinary team colleagues and PCN leadership team to maintain a resilient and sustainable PCN.

We would ideally like someone to join our team who has experience working as a Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice and will ideally have completed the CPPE pathway. Applicants must be independent prescribers.

For an informal chat / visit please contact Marie Wragg, PCN Manager or David Russell, Lead Clinical Pharmacist

We are looking to recruit someone to work between 21-25 hours per week.

The main employer will be the PCN - Network North PCN Ltd

Main duties of the job We are looking for a Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist to join our team who acts within their professional boundaries, to work alongside a team of pharmacists in our PCN which is made up of 5 Practices.

We're seeking someone who wants to improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines and expertise including face to face contact with patients.

You will be an integral part of the PCN, as well as part of a wider general practice and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of hospitals. You will be asked to work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety, and augment clinical staff in the management of patients, with minimal support needed from Senior or Lead Pharmacists.

You must be an Independent Prescriber.

Supervision and a mentorship network will be provided to support the Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist.

About us Network North PCN Ltd is a well-established Primary Care Network in North Sheffield, with a stable patient population. We have a compassionate and supportive team. We are committed, friendly and flexible. Keyinfo:

• 5 Practices within the PCN
• SystemOne and EMIS practices
• Commitment to CPD
• Emphasis on teaching
• Forward-thinking, innovative and keen to embrace new ways of working
• Multi-disciplinary team - including an Advanced Care Practitioner, Care Coordinators, Clinical Pharmacists, GPs, Mental Health Workers, Pharmacy Technician, Physician Associates, Physiotherapists and Social Prescribing Link Worker.

Job responsibilities Primary responsibilities:

A prescribing clinical pharmacist at Network North PCN has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Be a prescriber and work with and alongside the PCN and general practice team.
• Work with the 5 Practices across the PCN as and where needed.
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to pro actively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities. Compared to a Clinical Pharmacist role, they must have a greater range of clinical skills relating to competences.
• Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the PCN practices conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework, enhanced services/local enhanced services, Impact and Investment Fund requirements and also any local PQIS schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives.
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self care.
• Have a role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation.
• Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
• To act as the point of contact for all medication-related matters, establishing positive working relationships.
• To consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
• To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
• To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff.
• To provide medication review services for patients in the practices and during domiciliary visits to local nursing homes.
• To manage a caseload of complex patients.
• To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
• To deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
• To provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
• To review medications for newly registered patients.
• To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
• To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• To encourage cost effective prescribing throughout the PCN.
• To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
• To provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.
• To organise and oversee the PCN's medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
• To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• To develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
• To ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection control measures within the PCN practices according to local and national guidelines.
• To provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a robust system.
• Share expertise with the various students across the Practices and have students shadow them in clinic.
• To support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies.
• To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
• To manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions and to provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life care.
• To review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC guidance etc.
• To provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re admission to secondary care.
• To handle prescription queries and requests directly.
• To provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the organisation, patients and their carers.
• To support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation.
• To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near miss events.
• To undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
• To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
• To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.
• To attend pharmacy team meetings and other clinical team meetings.
• To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID 19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
• Carry out clinical audits.

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. Other duties will be added and/or amended to suit the ever changing needs of General Practice.

Secondary Responsibilities:
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