PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Join Our Team as a PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Are you a motivated Clinical Pharmacist looking to make a meaningful impact in primary care?

Do you thrive in collaborative environments where your expertise is valued and your ideas shape the future of patient care?

North East Derbyshire Primary Care Network Ltd is seeking a passionate and proactive Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic team. You will work across four forward-thinking GP practices delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

Whether you’re already in a PCN role or transitioning from community or hospital pharmacy, wed love to hear from you.

What Were Looking For
• GPhC-registered pharmacist.
• Experience in primary care or a strong desire to learn.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A forward-thinker who’s ready to challenge the status quo.

Main duties of the job

What You’ll Do

(Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further supporting info)
• Conduct structured medication reviews and optimise prescribing for long-term conditions.
• Promote safer prescribing practices and reduce medication-related harm.
• Use digital tools and audits to enhance clinical outcomes.
• Provide expert advice to patients and colleagues.
• Contribute to the evolution of pharmacy services in primary care.
• Work collaboratively across all practices to ensure consistent standards, shared learning, and seamless service delivery.

About us

NED PCN is an organisational group of four proactive GP practices in North East Derbyshire. The Practices are Barlborough Medical Practice, Killamarsh Medical Practice, The Springs Medical Partnership and The Valleys Medical Partnership.

NED PCN is a relatively small PCN with just over 40,000 patients. We feel that this makes us big enough to develop a successful team but small enough to be an approachable, friendly place to be.

The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

Core practices opening hours of 8:00am 6:30pm Monday to Friday each week.

If you would be interested in having a confidential informal discussion about this opportunity or for further details, please contact:

Miss Sarah Buckley, PCN Manager or Mrs Donna Lymer ddicb.nedpcnoperationsteam@nhs.net
• Please be aware that this job posting may close earlier than the advertised date.
• Please note that we kindly request no contact from recruitment consultants or agencies regarding this job advert.

Job responsibilities

There
may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be
dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

a. 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

b. Be responsible for the care management
of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to
proactively 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 the Stop Over Medication Programme)

c. Provide specialist expertise in the use
of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care
needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities

d. Provide leadership on person-centred
medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the organisation
conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and
quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework
and enhanced services

e. Through structured medication reviews,
support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce
waste and promote self-care

f. Have a leadership 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

g. Develop relationships and work closely
with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social
care system

h. 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

i. Be part of a professional clinical
network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision

j. To act as the PCN point of contact for
all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships

k. To liaise with the practices and, when
practicable, to standardise the medicines management process across the PCN

l. To consult patients within defined
levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication

m. To receive referrals and directed
patients from triage services and other clinicians

n. To receive and resolve medicines queries
from patients and other staff

o. To provide medication review services
for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing
home

p. To manage a caseload of complex patients

q. To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring
system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants,
anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc.

r. To deliver long term conditions clinics
particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe
accordingly

s. To provide pharmaceutical consultations
to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the
multi-disciplinary team

t. To review medications for newly registered
patients

u. To improve patient and carer
understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication

v. To encourage cost-effective prescribing
throughout the PCN

w. To liaise with practices and implement
and embed a robust repeat prescribing system for use across all practices

x. To provide advice and answer medication
related queries from patients and staff

y. To organise and oversee the PCNs
medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication
review systems

z. To improve the quality and effectiveness
of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance
against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance

aa. To provide subject matter expertise on
medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system

bb. To actively signpost patients to the
correct healthcare professional

cc. To review the latest guidance ensuring
the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.

dd. To provide targeted support and
proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of
admission and re-admission to secondary care

ee. To handle prescription queries and
requests directly

ff. To provide proactive leadership on
medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients
and their carers

gg. To support in the delivery of enhanced
services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN

hh. 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

ii. To undertake all mandatory training and
induction programmes

jj. To contribute to and embrace the
spectrum of clinical governance

kk. 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

nn. To contribute to public health campaigns
(e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care

oo. To maintain a clean, tidy, effective
working area at all times.

In addition to the
primary responsibilities, the PCN Clinical Pharmacist may be requested to:

a.
Support
the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness
initiatives

b.
Agree
and review prescribing formularies and protocols and monitor compliance
levels

c.
Improve
the data quality of medicines records and linking to conditions

d.
Deliver
training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine
issues

e.
Provide
proactive support to the Pharmacy Technician team, …

Data Entry jobs in Sharjah with salary 8000 AED

Part Time Jobs Waiters & Runners

Software Test Engineer (V&V) Jobs in Manchester at METTLER TOLEDO