PCN Clinical Pharmacist (ARRS) 2 roles

NHS; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Blackpool Central West Primary Care Network

We are looking to recruit 2 Clinical Pharmacists to join Blackpool Central West PCN. Working with 3 GP practices we currently employ a PCN Manager, Clinical Lead (Occupational Therapist), 2 Clinical Pharmacists and 1 Pharmacy Technicians, Social Prescribers, 3 Paramedics, Care Co-ordinators, Health & Wellbeing Coaches and a mental health team.

With regular MDT meetings, we work collaboratively supporting our colleagues throughout the network, and the wider healthcare community.

Please apply by providing your CV and a supporting letter within the same document. We also encourage informal visits from interested candidates to meet the team and find out more about the role and the work we do - please get in touch with us.

This is not an 'agenda for change' role, however we do participate in the NHS Pension scheme.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dynamic pharmacists who like a challenge and who can bring their energy and innovation to further develop clinical pharmacy within our PCN. This role will involve being part of the PCN multi-disciplinary team and requires you to provide a high level of expertise in clinical medicines management.

The role will include delivering structured medication reviews, including for housebound patients and those with long term conditions and project work. The role will also involve working with the PCN practices on day to day business and improving collaborative systems for safer prescribing, addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients. This role requires someone with the motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. The successful candidate will be supported to become a non-medical prescriber, if not already, and will also benefit from our commitment to professional development and peer support.

The role will enable the PCN organisation to deliver their annual NHS contract and project management of the PCN service by achieving goals and targets using a combination of personal involvement, motivation of other staff and delegation when appropriate.

About us

The aim of a Primary Care Network is to enable the provision of proactive, accessible, coordinated and more integrated primary and community care improving outcomes for patients.

They are formed around natural communities based on GP registered lists, serving populations of around 30,000 to 50,000.

Networks need to be small enough to provide the personal care valued by both patients and GPs, but large enough to have impact through deeper collaboration between practices and others in the local health (community and primary care) and social care system. We will provide a platform for providers of care to be sustainable into the longer term.

Job responsibilities

A key job role for PCN Clinical Pharmacists is to undertake structured medication reviews, ensuring patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place, maximising QoF achievements, when required for patients:

1. with complex and problematic polypharmacy, specifically those on 10 or more medications,
2. on medicines commonly associated with medication errors,
3. with severe frailty,
4. who are particularly isolated or housebound or who have had recent hospital admissions and/or falls,
5. using particularly addictive pain management medication.

Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews to address polypharmacy and improve concordance.

Patients identified as requiring extra support with their medication or those with questions, queries and concerns about their medication.

Other duties are not limited to, but may include:

1. Telephone consultations and multimedia contacts will also be undertaken where appropriate.
2. Work to collaborate in a common framework for medication standards agreed by all PCN practices to ensure equity, clarity and consistency for all patients and health and social care staff.
3. Work to maximise GP practice incomes through pro-active involvement in QoF and Healthier Fylde Coast Contract to achieve targets through high quality clinical reviews and data analysis.
4. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines - this might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
5. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
6. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
7. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
8. Contribute to the implementation of changes that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
9. Contribute to the implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations, monitor practice prescribing and make recommendations to GPs.
10. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
11. Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
12. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
• Good all-round clinical knowledge and practical skills.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions or work towards this skill.
• An appreciation of the role of GP and the wider primary care teams.
• Knowledge of general practice funding streams especially Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) and Quality Schemes and ability to transfer data interpretation skills alongside clinical skills to support practice income generation.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to make judgements involving complex facts or situations that require the analysis and interpretation of a range of options.
• Ability to work under pressure in a busy environment and meet deadlines by effective prioritisation of work whilst also supporting others.
• Experience of effective team working and ability to accept guidance and constructive criticism as part of personal development.
• Ability to work effectively, autonomously and be able to proactively use own initiative within your own recognised professional limitations.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Demonstrates attention to detail, able to work accurately, identify errors quickly and easily.
• Experience of working within primary care.

Qualifications

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Evidence of commitment to CPD (continuing professional development).
• Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
• Completed/intention to enrol onto the CPPE Primary Care Pathway.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

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.

Blackpool Central West Primary Care Network