Lead Pharmacist - Harlow, United Kingdom - HCRG Care Group

HCRG Care Group Harlow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Permanent

Description

Job summary

The Lead Pharmacist is responsible for medicines optimisation on behalf of the Business Unit (BU), working closely with the BU Quality Directorate and Chief Pharmacist to oversee medicines optimisation across the portfolio of childrens community services, providing support and guidance, direction and influencing colleagues to ensure organisational and BU medicine optimisation objectives are achieved.

The Lead Pharmacist represents HCRG Care Group Ltd locally and regionally at multi-organisational medicines optimisation meetings medicines safety meetings, ICB Area Prescribing Meetings and regional pharmacy leads meetings, as well as within HCRG Care Group.

The Lead Pharmacist will provide high-quality specialist pharmacy advice and support to services across the Business Unit, to ensure legal, safe, and effective medicines optimisation, and will influence and support the development of strategy to promote innovation in medicines optimisation.

They will work with the Business Unit Operational Director, Head of Service: Quality, Safeguarding and Children in Care, Heads of Service; Clinical Service Managers, and Clinical teams to facilitate appropriate medicines optimisation activities.

The Lead Pharmacist will be responsible for ensuring that all statutory duties relating to medicines optimisation are met and systems are CQC compliant.

This role does offer flexible working from our Family Hubs & home working.

Main duties of the job

Provide expert medicines optimisation and management advice on all matters relating to childrens community healthcare, including situations outside the scope of national protocols, policies, and guidelines

Participate as an active member of the Eastern Regional Medicines Safety network, as well as the Organisational network, disseminating safety information and learning to colleagues within the Business Unit and to Pharmacy Lead colleagues within HCRG

Monitor, analyse, interpret, and provide advice and support on medicines related data, clinical audit, and incident reports

Provide written and verbal reports, accounts and feedback on any work undertaken for discussion at BU Quality & Safety meetings, BU Professional Leads Meetings and HCRG Medicines Optimisation Governance meetings

Work with the Chief Pharmacist and BU Quality Leads to proactively support services to fulfil the medicines management requirements of the CQC and Home Office (HO), including developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and clinical guidelines, and supporting services to monitor and review their own performance

Work with the Head of Service: Quality, Safeguarding and Children in Care, and the HCRG Chief Pharmacist, to identify improvements in medicines safety and medicines optimisation and support their implementation as part of continuous quality improvement.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Lead Pharmacist , you will be part of our valued Community Paediatrics Team acrossEssex,receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 8b salary with Agenda for Change T&Cs including NHS pension

Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates

Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling

Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)

Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent additional experience

Previous experience in Primary Care or Community Health Care services

Post-qualification experience of clinical pharmacy, medicines information and prescribing advice

Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others

Ability to critically appraise literature in order to analyse, interpret and evaluate clinical papers, clinical evidence, data and information from various sources to make judgements, decisions and provide recommendations.

Experience of producing high level reports and presenting these at key committee meetings

Desirable

Experience of chairing meetings and producing associated reports and action plans

Experience of SystmOne Software

Experience of the NHS Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Experience of NHSBSA prescriber registration process and prescription form ordering processes

Knowledge of ePACT data reporting

Other requirements:

Long periods of computer work and daily concentration on preparing reports, policies, analysing data and training materials; delivering training and medicines optimisation induction sessions; carrying out audits; attending meetings.

Frequent interruptions to answer queries from health care professionals and colleagues, which may be received at any time and may take precedence over other work depending on their urgency.

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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