Job description

Job responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

The post-holder will:

• Have completed an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Have a minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Have experience and awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
• Hold an independent prescribing qualification, or will be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Have the ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients across core areas, including disease states/long term conditions.
• Recognise priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Be able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Involve patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification

Collaborative Working Relationships

The post-holder will:

• Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
• Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs).
• Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team.
• Be able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
• Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
• Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
• Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.
• Liaise with CCG colleagues; including CCG Pharmacist on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
• Liaise with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
• Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to:

o Patients

o GP, nurses and other practice staff

o Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

o Community nurses and other allied health professionals

o Community and hospital pharmacy teams

o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

Leadership

The post-holder will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Demonstrate and understanding of, and contribute to, the workplace vision.
• Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices.
• Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
• Review yearly progress and develops 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.

Management

The post-holder will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Demonstrate an ability to identify and resolve risk management issues involving medicines according to policy/protocol.
• Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
• Demonstrate an ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Education Training and Development

The post-holder will:

• Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the mentorship process.
• Demonstrates an ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague.
• Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside senior clinical pharmacist to identifying areas to develop.
• Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
• Ensure there is appropriate clinical supervision in place to support development.
• Engage with the review and appraisal systems within the practice.

Research and Evaluation

The post-holder will:

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

Health and Safety/Risk Management

• The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
• The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (2016) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Equality and Diversity

• The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Respect for Patient Confidentiality

• The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Special Working Conditions

• The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies.
• The post-holder will have contact with body fluids i.e., wound exudates; urine etc. while in clinical practice.

Job Description Agreement

This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the Primary Care Network. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the Network.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) which includes revalidation
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification

Desirable

• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature 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.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Good IT skills.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• 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.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

Desirable

• Worked in Primary care

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Beckenham Primary Care Network

Address

Elm House Surgery, Beckenham Beacon

379 Croydon Road

Beckenham

Kent

BR3 3FD