PCN Senior Pharmacist - Leeds, United Kingdom - South Milford Surgery

Description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PCN Senior ClinicalPharmacist (IP) to join our ever-expanding team within Tadcaster and SelbyRural PCN working within the Practices.

Tadcaster and Selby Rural (TaSR) PCN are a well established3 Practice PCN with approximately 32,000 patients, covering the largegeographical area surrounding Tadcaster, Sherburn-in-Elmet and South Milford.

The right candidate should be caring, dedicated andcompassionate. They will also need anopen and flexible attitude towards working with a variety of different patientneeds. Good written and verbal communication skills as well as strong time andcase management abilities are also needed.

The successful candidate should have a passion and drivefor providing high quality and personalised care. General Practice experience is desirable butnot essential. Prescribing qualificationis essential. The postholder will be required to enrol on the General PracticePharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE if not already completed.

The post holder will be responsible for the management andsupervision of the Clinical Pharmacy Team (to include Pharmacy Technician). The role of Senior will be supported by theClinical Director.

The role will be based in Practice.

Main duties of the job

and structured medication reviews. The post holder will work within amultidisciplinary team to provide expertise in the medicine's aspects of therole. They will work directly alongsideGP's, Advanced Clinical Practitioners as well as other AHP's employed acrossthe PCN.

In addition, they will also be responsible for the day-to-dayclinical management of the Pharmacy team alongside the PCN Manager. This includes answering day to day clinical escalationqueries, undertaking annual appraisals and intermediate performance reviews. This will be as well as the continuing to designthe team.

About us

The Senior Clinical Pharmacists contract will be held bySouth Milford Surgery on behalf of Tadcaster and Selby Rural PCN. The successful candidate/s may be working inone or all of the PCN Practices (South Milford Surgery, Tadcaster MedicalCentre and Sherburn Group Practice).

The PCN works over 3 Practice sites, has 1 ClinicalDirector and is managed by the Practice Managers and PCN Manager.

The postholder will participate in any training programmeimplemented by the PCN as part of this employment, to include participation inan annual performance review, ongoing continuous professional development,learning and performance.

The postholder will support the quality, diversity andrights of the patient, careers and colleagues to include acting in a way thatrecognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way thatis consistent with Practice procedures, policies and legislation. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefsof patients carers.

South Milford Surgery & Bramham Medical Centre are part of the same partnership but the surgeries have separate patient lists and are members of different primary care networks.

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the role will be to support the PCNPractices with all aspects of medicines optimisation and structured medicationreviews. The post holder will workwithin a multidisciplinary team to provide expertise in the medicine's aspectsof the role. They will work directlyalongside GP's, Advanced Clinical Practitioners as well as other AHP's employedacross the PCN.

In addition, they will also be responsible for the day-to-dayclinical management of the Pharmacy team alongside the PCN Manager. This includes answering day to day clinical escalationqueries, undertaking annual appraisals and intermediate performance reviews. This will be as well as the continuing to designthe team.

Main roles of the job may include but are not limited to:

Patient facing Clinical Medication Reviews and telephonereviews.

Medicines quality improvement

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Telephone medicines support

Management of medicines in a care home setting

Management of long-term conditions

Reviewing of safer prescribing and prescribing safetyalerts.

Contributing to the achievement of QoF/DES/IIF outcomes.

Actioning acute prescription requests.

Undertaking clinical audits and reporting findings back tothe wider Practice and PCN team.

The postholder should have an understanding of the widerhealth, social, economic and environmental factors impacting patients. An appreciation of the nature of Primary Careprescribing, concepts of safe prescribing and strategies to improveprescribing.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable