PCN Clinical Pharmacist - Thornton-Cleveleys, United Kingdom - Torentum PCN Limited

Description

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join the growing Torentum Primary Care Network. Working across 3 GP practices we currently employ a PCN Manager, Clinical Lead (Paramedic), 3 Clinical Pharmacists and a Pharmacy Technician, Social Prescribers, Paramedic, Care Co-ordinators and a mental health team.

With regular MDT meetings, we work collaboratively supporting our colleagues throughout the network, and the wider healthcare community.

Please apply by providing your CV and a supporting letter within the same document. We also encourage informal visits from interested candidates to meet the team and find out more about the role and the work we do - please get in touch with us.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dynamic pharmacists who like a challenge and who can bring their energy and innovation to further develop clinical pharmacy within our PCN. This role will involve being part of the PCN multi-disciplinary team and requires you to provide a high level of expertise in clinical medicines management.

The role will include delivering face to face structured medication reviews, including for housebound patients and those with long term conditions and project work. The role will also involve working with the PCN practices on day to day business and improving collaborative systems for safer prescribing, addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients. This role requires someone with the motivation and passion to deliver anexcellent service within general practice. The successful candidate will be supported to become a non-medical prescriber, if not already, and will also benefit from our commitment to professional development and peer support.

The role will enable the PCN organisation to deliver their annual NHS contract and project management of the PCN service by achieving goals and targets using a combination of personal involvement, motivation of other staff and delegation when appropriate.

About us

What is a Primary Care Network?

The aim of a Primary Care Network is to enable the provision of proactive, accessible, coordinated and more integrated primary and community care improving outcomes for patients.

They are formed around natural communities based on GP registered lists, serving populations of around 30,000 to 50,000.

The Torentum Primary Care Network

The Torentum Primary Care Network was formed in June 2020, as a collaboration of 3 GP Practices, Cleveleys Group Practice, The Crescent Surgery and The Thornton Practice serving a population of registered patients on our list equating to approximately 33,000 patients.

Networks need to be small enough to provide the personal care valued by both patients and GPs, but large enough to have impact through deeper collaboration between practices and others in the local health (community and primary care) and social care system. We will provide a platform for providers of care to be sustainable into the longer term.

Now is an exciting time to join Torentum PCN, we are expanding our team and remain passionate about delivery high quality care. We offer supportive development opportunities working across our 3 GP practices and are keen to hear from motivated candidates who share our passion for healthcare.

Job responsibilities

A key jobrole for PCN Clinical Pharmacists is to undertake patient facing structuredmedication reviews, ensuring patients have appropriate monitoring tests inplace, maximising QoF achievements, when required for patients:

a. in care homes,

b. with complex and problematic polypharmacy,specifically those on 10 or more medications,

c. on medicines commonly associated with medicationerrors,

d. with severe frailty,

e. who are particularly isolated or housebound orwho have had recent hospital admissions and/or falls,

f. using particularly addictive pain managementmedication.

· Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews toaddress polypharmacy and improve concordance.

· Patients identified as requiring extra supportwith their medication or those with questions, queries and concerns about theirmedication.

Other duties are not limited to, but mayinclude:

· Telephone consultations and multimediacontacts will also be undertaken where appropriate

· Work to collaborate in a common framework formedication standards agreed by all PCN practices to ensure equity, clarity andconsistency for all patients and health and social care staff.

· Work to maximise GP practice incomes throughpro-active involvement in QoF and Healthier Fylde Coast Contract to achievetargets through high quality clinical reviews and data analysis.

· Identify cohorts of patients at high risk ofharm from medicines - this might include risks that are patient related,medicine related, or both.

· Review the use of medicines most commonlyassociated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through auditand individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribingof these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

· Answer relevant medicine-related enquiriesfrom GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams ( community pharmacy)and patients with queries about medicines.

· Contribute pharmaceutical advice for thedevelopment and implementation of new services that have medicinal components( advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

· Analyse, interpret and present medicines datato highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

· Contribute to the implementation of changesthat result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and nationalguidance.

· Contribute to the implementation of local andnational guidelines and formulary recommendations, monitor practice prescribingand make recommendations to GPs.

· Provide education and training to primaryhealthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

· Work with the general practice teams to ensurethe practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

· Provide specialist knowledge on all publichealth programmes available to the general public.

· Support the practices with clinical practicepharmacist work where needed, during annual leave, medicinesreconciliation, clinical letters etc.

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable