Senior PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Overview

As an experienced pharmacist, you will work within your professional and clinical boundaries as part of an established multi disciplinary team to provide expertise and leadership in all areas of medicine related practice in a patient facing role.

Main duties of the job

To develop and deliver a PCN clinical pharmacy service for patients in primary care, including home and residential care homes.

To ensure that PCN practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes, access to healthcare and manage workload.

To provide leadership on medicines optimisation, advising on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and developing or auditing relevant protocols and guidelines.

To manage, support and teach less experienced staff, such as clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team.

To role model compassionate, inclusive leadership that engages, empowers and facilitates teamwork across organisational boundaries.

To manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, including repeat prescriptions, acute prescription requests and antibiotic stewardship.

To provide face to face medication reviews, tackle polypharmacy, and manage long term conditions.

To contribute to continuous quality improvement, clinical audits and evidence based initiatives in the practice.

To maintain risk stratification tools, medicines safety, antibiotic stewardship and ensure compliance with CQC and regulatory standards.

To work collaboratively with community, hospital colleagues on discharge medicines and continuity of care, and to lead service development aligned with NICE guidance and local pathways.

To support public health campaigns and maintain effective communication with patients, peers and partners.

About us

Sunderland GP Alliance began in 2015 and, as a limited company, we have grown to over 200 employees. We are innovative in responding to the changing needs of a 21st century health care system. With a not for profit ethos people are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it is a patient being seen at one of our GP practices or out of hours service, or the people at the heart of the Alliance who make it a great, friendly place to work, we want people to realise their potential inside and outside of work. We support your development and offer 33 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and deliver a PCN clinical pharmacy service for primary care patients.
• Integrate PCN practices with community and hospital pharmacy to improve outcomes.
• Lead medicines optimisation and develop audit protocols.
• Manage, support and teach staff and students.
• Model inclusive leadership and coaching.
• Manage medicines on transfer of care, repeat prescriptions and antibiotic stewardship.
• Provide medication reviews and tackle polypharmacy.
• Contribute to quality improvement and audits.
• Maintain risk stratification and medicines safety tools.
• Ensure compliance with CQC and regulations.
• Collaborate with community and hospital colleagues on discharge medicines.
• Lead service development aligned with NICE guidance.
• Support public health campaigns.
• Communicate effectively with patients and partners.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience
• Experience of leading a team
• Knowledge of General Practice and working alongside GP staff
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of evidence based healthcare, including clinical audit

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Minimum of three years post qualification experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards qualification
• Evidence of post qualification and continuing professional development
• Completion of the CPPE primary care pathway or working towards it