SWAGGA PCN Network Pharmacist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Gateacre Brow Practice

    Gateacre Brow Practice
    Gateacre Brow Practice Liverpool, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supportingdelivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications. These rolesare critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes inpractices, care homes and domiciliary settings.

    We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job,based on the Job Description and Person Specification, therefore do ensure yourapplication clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.

    ***Previous applicantsneed not apply***

    Main duties of the job

    The post holder will be responsible for supporting SWAGGA Member Practices in implementing the NHS Long Term Plan which includes effective medicine management, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating, streamlining and managing change and reducing duplication across the Network.

    The post holder will be an experienced pharmacist, ideally already qualified as an Independent Prescriber, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.

    About us

    SWAGGA is a network developing at pace and are now in aposition to recruit further Clinical Pharmacists to shape and drivetherapeutical and pharmaceutical decisions and needs. The network has strongfoundations and we want SWAGGA to be a network that delivers good qualityprescription and financial management and be a leader in providing joined up,integrated clinical care to its patients, supporting our practices to thrive.SWAGGA is a large network, with a population of approximately 100,000 patients,covering 16 practices.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    The primary responsibilities of the role are to:

    1. Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions andadvise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. Thismay include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps inservices and implementing those actions within their scope of practice oractioning medicines safety alerts.

    2. Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinicalaudit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.

    3. Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of thenational medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or theneed for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, alwaysmeeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team.

    4. Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation whenpatients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.

    5. Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating onachievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specifiedpatient cohort.

    6. Provide care home SMr reviews

    7. Involvment of addressing health inequalities and addressinghealth needs of population

    6. Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of thePCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network tohelp nurture a robust team.

    7. All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independentprescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must havepersonal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approvedto undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers mustensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the teamand in line with the NMP Policy.

    8. The post holder will also be required to travel from practiceto practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UKDrivers Licence is therefore essential.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification or equivalent vocational experience
  • Independent prescriber.
  • Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
  • Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).

    • Desirable

  • Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information.

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant relevant and ongoing CPD.
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments.
  • Experience of measuring and understanding KPIs.

    • Desirable

  • Experience of in depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
  • Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices.
  • An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice.
  • Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these.
  • Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information.