Job description

Job responsibilities

To improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise including face to face. To proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.

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

Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patients outcomes, reflect the needs of the PCN population and shift workload from other disciplines.

Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approaches acute illness.

Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines.

Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.

Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff.

Organize and oversee the PCNS medicines optimisation system including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.

Deliver high quality medication review and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission)

Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance

Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards.

Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities.

Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issue.

Deliver training, monitoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues.

Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GPHC Independent Prescribing Qualification.
• The successful applicant will have completed the CPPE pathway, or be at least half-way through.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional
• development.
• Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
• Member of GPHC.

Experience

Essential

• Must understand the background to and aims of general practice.
• Has appreciation of new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners.
• Understanding of the current national policies those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
• Ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of clinicians and managers.
• Proven verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Considers most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; can take actions which support and promote this agenda.
• Ability to travel round the PCN GP Practices.
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn
• and develop.

Desirable

• Good understanding of primary care.
• Experience of undertaking evidence reviews.
• Evidence of experience in using independent prescribing.
• Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a range of stakeholders.
• Able to facilitate change.
• Experience of clinical audit

Skills & abilities

Essential

• Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary/secondary.
• Evidence of planning and delivering of programmes
• and projects and services on time.
• Ability to summarise and present information in relevant concise and
• proactive way.
• Current and valid UK driving license with access to a car.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to apply to
• practice.
• Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carer can understand.
• Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
• Understanding of the data protection act and patient confidentiality, clinical governance, information.
• Able to understand broad range of complex information quickly and
• make decisions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the PCN, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Interpreting national policy for implementation.

Desirable

• Ability to critically analyse complex information and evidence and communicate the findings clearly in simple terms.
• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.

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

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Address

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB