Skelmersdale PCN Clinical Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to develop a pioneering role within primary care. West Lancashire GP Federation is looking for Clinical Pharmacist to join the Skelmersdale PCN.

The Clinical Pharmacist is very much a patient-facing role and there will be plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community. This will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role. You will act as a specialist resource to answer medicines-related queries, to signpost to other services and to liaise with other healthcare professionals as required.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and adaptable to change, with excellent clinical skills and a good level of competence in use of IT. Candidates should exhibit good organisational skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders including patients, families and carers. It is vital that the successful individual lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. We want to develop a fun and vibrant environment that grows talent and wowing outcomes. It is about learning from each other and pulling together as a team and accepting we are different but have the same focus WE not ME!

The successful candidate will work independently at network and practice level, but also as part of a supportive practice team, to deliver safe and effective use of medicines by applying their clinical and pharmaceutical skills to a variety of tasks within the medicines optimisation agenda.

About us

Asan organisation developing new relationships and business it is vital we grow the right culture. Therefore, it is vital that the successful individual lives and breathes our complimentaryvalues and behaviours. We want to develop a fun and vibrant environment thatgrows talent and wowing outcomes. It isabout learning from each other and pulling together as a team and accepting we aredifferent but have the same focus.

Job responsibilities

The role willfocus on Primary Care Network initiatives as set out in the Primary CareNetwork contract, NHS Long Term Plan and deliverables agreed by the networkmembers to improve place based patient care.Key responsibilities of the role may include:

• Management ofpatients with chronic diseases to proactively manage patients with complexpolypharmacy.
• Clinicallyassess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines forspecific disease areas.
• Providespecialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address publichealth and social care needs and tackling inequalities across the Primary CareNetwork geography.
• Developrelationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across thewider health and social care economy.
• Provideleadership on person centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Successful completion of a Great Britain or Northern Ireland accredited MPharm degree
• Passed a registration assessment conducted by the GPhC
• Currently registered with GPhC
• Clinical skills and diagnostics qualification

Experience

• Working autonomously in a Pharmacist Role
• Clinical Management
• Service Delivery
• Audit
• Research
• Promoting Health Education
• Working within a community setting
• General Practice/ Primary Care Experience
• Experience of Case Management

Skills and Knowledge

• Clinical Leadership skills
• Management of patients with long term conditions
• Management of patients with complex needs
• Accountability of own role and other roles
• Clinical practice skills
• Management of patients with long term conditions/complex needs
• Knowledge of frail and elderly patient needs
• Local and national health policies
• Clinical Governance
• MDTs
• Clinical Examination skills
• Understand the changes of Primary care GPFYV
• Advanced clinical practice skills

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.