North Southwark PCN Clinical Pharmacist

The PCN Clinical Pharmacist, will act within their professional boundaries and work as part of the team to provide a safe, efficient and high-quality clinical pharmacy service to the North Southwark population.

You will work from North Southwark Primary Care Network member practices and neighbourhood team-based locations working as part of neighbourhood multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) in both patient-facing and non-patient facing roles, delivering integrated services; be involved in the provision of primary care medicines management and optimisation services across neighbourhoods; supported to take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within a local Neighbourhood Team or practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

You will support the development of medicine-related protocols and guidelines to support medicines use within primary care; provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, and support delivery of both local and national medicines related NHS contracts.

You will ensure that the Neighbourhood integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. 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.

Main duties of the job

Key requirements of the role are:

• Promoting safe and effective use of medicines across the primary care landscape
• Delivery of structured medication reviews to those identified as being at highest need with the PCN population
• To support the quality improvement and inequality agenda
• Reducing and managing risk and harm from medicines
• Reducing wastage and optimising medicines use across the system
• Delivery of other medicines related specifications as directed by the PCN contract

The role requires a commitment to patient‑centred care and will involve undertaking complex medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and reviews, assessing medicine support needs, health promotion activities, as well as providing information and advice.

You will be required to work with a wide range of stakeholders. It is important that the postholder:

• Demonstrates ability to be positive, flexible and most importantly, work as a member of an integrated team
• Recognises the roles of other colleagues to patient care and liaises with other stakeholders for the collective benefit of patients
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co‑operation of relevant stakeholders in the local care network to build sustainable relationships

Job responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Recognises priorities when problem‑solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to senior pharmacist or other clinical staff when appropriate
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Leadership

• Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
• Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
• Reviews yearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
• Promotes diversity and equality in people‑management techniques and leads by example.
• To deputise for senior pharmacists during periods of absence

Management

• Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
• Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
• Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
• To follow and conform to relevant standards of care and demonstrate professional accountability

Research and Evaluation

• Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
• Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
• Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
• Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place
• Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.

Education, Training and Development

• Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service
• Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process
• Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experienced colleague
• Demonstrates self‑development through continuous professional development activity in line with the General Pharmaceutical Council, working alongside senior clinical pharmacist to identify areas to develop
• Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes as appropriate
• Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
• Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development
• Enrolled into review and appraisal systems within the practice

The wide scope of this role is not an expectation of where the post holder will start but where they aim to be within two years of coming into the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post‑graduate diploma
• Level, Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

• Knowledge of GPs and general practice services
• Knowledge of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• Ability to use work‑based IT programmes to deliver high quality
• Ability to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Able to prioritise when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern
• Able to recognise limitations and refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Able to produce timely and informative reports
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Experience of working in a GP practice or Primary Care Network
• In‑depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence‑based healthcare
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long‑term conditions
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence, motivate, persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations, agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Experience of documenting patient care in EMIS

Other requirements

• Self‑motivated
• Adaptable and flexible approach to delivering high quality patient care
• Current DBS
• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Full immunisation status
• Basic life support training
• Information Governance toolkit completion

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.

£49,387 to £60,417 a year Depending on experience

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