Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Our Health Partnership

Description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join ourexisting team of OHP clinical pharmacists working within practices across the Weoloey & Rubery PrimaryCare Network (W&R PCN).

The position of Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist has an essential role in improving the healthcare weprovide to our patients. We are recruiting for Clinical Pharmacists towork with existing practice and PCN teams to deliver consistency and excellencein medicines optimisation across the member practices.

The successful candidates will be part of a dynamic and forward-thinkingteam of clinical pharmacists employed by Our Health Partnership, working acrossthe practices within the PCN. Professional Leadership will be provided bythe Consultant Pharmacist at OHP and the Lead Clinical Pharmacists in the PCN.

Please note whilst our Head Office is based in Cotteridge, this role will be required to work within any of the practices in the aforementioned PCN.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for pharmacists who will work as part of amulti-disciplinary team, developing and managing medicines optimisationservices within our practices. Demonstrating improvements in value and patientoutcomes and contributing to reducing health inequalities through the safe andappropriate use of medicines. This includes implementation of systematicprocesses for improving medicines optimisation across our PCNs and the widerOHP network. Work programmes will be prioritised according to the populationneeds of the PCN and in line with the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 39 surgeries, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

Benefits of joining Our Health Partnership (OHP)

Job responsibilities

The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within theirprofessional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of Health CarePractitioners within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN).

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staffwith regards to prescription and medication queries. They will perform medicinesreconciliation on transfer of care and implement systems for safer prescribing,providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both publicand social care needs of patients in the PCN.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in apatient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of medicines optimisationwithin the PCN and undertake structured clinical medication reviews toproactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisationand quality improvement (QI) and manage some aspects of the quality andoutcomes framework and enhanced services at practice and PCN level.

The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the healthsystem and the wider OHP organisation to improve population health.Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce healthinequalities across the PCN contributing to improving the efficiency of generalpractice and delivering a best in class service.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role in line with theOHP workforce strategy, this will include becoming and operating as a non-medicalprescriber. This is a new role and will be reviewed at least annually, wherethe Job Description may be updated in line with the needs of the organisation.

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Essential