Primary Care Network Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Primary Care Network Senior Clinical Pharmacist The post holder will be employed by Greenwich Health the GPFederation. The Post holder will work with Riverview Health PCN, a grouping of 5 practices. Riverview has a team of clinical pharmacists working to deliver practice support but also PCN-level work which means the individual pharmacists are part of a wider team

The postholder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role

Proactively manage patients with co morbidities

Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. Support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices

Provide leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services

Main duties of the job The post holder will preferably be an independent prescriber (not essential) and has experience of working in primary care. Will need to be able to:

• Hold patient facing reviews and provide medicine support
• Manage medicines in discharges from hospital
• Hold long term conditions clinics
• Be a centre of medicines information for practice staff
• support and adhere to repeat prescribing processes
• Support medicines safety and local/national guidelines

About us Greenwich Health is the GP Federation for the Greenwich Borough and have a not for profit ethos. This means we reinvest all of our surplus into developing our staff, our organisation and to support our GP Practices in being sustainable for the future. We are committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and providing services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

Why work for Greenwich Health?

• We are local organisation owned by our local GP Practices we care what happens in Greenwich and want to make a difference to our patients and our partners.
• We offer competitive remuneration as well as other benefits including:
• O Occupational sickness pay entitlement
• O Counselling services
• O Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• O Cycle to Work Scheme
• O Private Healthcare Membership - Benenden Healthcare
• We have a track record for developing individuals in their careers
• Through our partnerships in our local healthcare environment, we can develop shared posts for example, with the hospital trust and our GP practices.
• You will have ongoing support and mentorship.
• We have developed a working culture which harnesses openness and togetherness which has resulted in high staff retention rates

Job responsibilities JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Primary Care Network Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Responsible to:

GP Practice Leads, Clinical Supervisor, Greenwich Health Federation

Pay range:

£44,000-£51,000 (equivalent to Agenda for Change Band 8a)

Location:

Hours of work:

40 hours

Key Relationships:

The GP Federation, The PCN, Local practices, Providers

Greenwich Health is committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and delivering services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

Job Summary

The post holder will be employed by Greenwich Health the GP Federation in Greenwich. Greenwich has 6 primary care networks (PCNs) with list sizes of between 30-80,000 patients. The Post holder will work for one of these PCN, a grouping of 6 practices. Unusually the post holder will be working across two member practices with a combined list of 10,000.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

Proactively manage patients with co morbidities in the area of chronic disease management within the practice.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practices.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

Individual Responsibilities The post holder is expected to:

• Adhere to organisation policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies.
• Maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for the role.
• Attend mandatory training as identified by the organisation.
• Participate in a Performance Appraisal Scheme and to contribute to their own development and the development of any staff they are responsible for appraising.
• Responsible to have professional indemnity suitable for the range of work undertaking.
• Responsible to have authorisation for making changes to prescribing records within the practice. This may be by written agreement or GP signature for specific audits.

Working Relationships

• Patients and carers where appropriate
• GPs, nurses and other practice staff including practice pharmacists
• GP prescribing leads
• CCG pharmacists and medicines management team
• Secondary Care and interface Pharmacists
• Community Nurses and other allied health professionals
• Community Pharmacists and support staff

The post holder is expected to work as a flexible member of the PCN providing support to other team members when necessary and to take an active role in the development and embedding of the PCNs culture, values and reputation as providers of high quality services.

Health & Safety The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non judgmental and respects their circumstances, feeling priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
• Training may need to be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.

The PCN have invested in support from an organisation called Soar Beyond. Soar Beyond specialise in supporting the creation of teams of pharmacists across a network of practices. It is supported by a web platform called SMART which assesses pharmacist competency levels in a range of different disease areas and is backed up by training programmes to develop the individual where there might be gaps that the individual and the PCN would like to be filled. Currently the team is working towards competency in Diabetes management and the PCN is implementing a pharmacist led Diabetes pathway to be used across practices.

Quality and Governance The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the PCN, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Confidentiality In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy . click apply for full job details