Clinical Pharmacist - Worksop, United Kingdom - Newgate Medical Group

Description

Job summary

An exciting new opportunity has now arisen to work as aspecialist diabetes pharmacist, in an innovative and forward thinking singlePractice PCN. We are seeking anenthusiastic and forward thinking pharmacist. This isan evolving role with huge scope for development as we expand our PCN teamfurther in the next few years.

NMG are committedto developing a multidisciplinary diabetes team to support with the care ofpeople living with diabetes and those who have been newly diagnosed. We are looking for a pharmacist who has specialistexperience in diabetes to join an existing team to improve the care of peoplewith diabetes.

This exciting new role will giveyou the opportunity to develop your specialist clinical skills in apatient-facing, primary care environment, working with a wide variety ofhealthcare professionals.

You will need to understand thePractices strategic direction and work closely with the Practice team to develop and implement strategies to improveoutcomes for patients and the Practice, including service planning, monitoringand audit.

You will lead innovatively, based on clinicalevidence, to progress the Practice diabetes service including the wide use ofpopulation health and other relevant data to understand need and inform servicedevelopment, reducing or removing duplication and inefficiency. Implementingand evaluating the Integrated Diabetes services provision ensuring a smoothpathway through the service for patients with diabetes.

Main duties of the job

As a Pharmacist with special interest in diabetes you will:

Primary care experience would be an advantage. Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills are essential plus being able to work as part of the practice team and autonomously.

About us

Newgatemedical Group is a welcoming and busy GP Practice located in Worksop, Notts,providing regulated NHS services to our patients.

Weare a single site PCN with 30,000 registered patients. We have anestablished team of 9 GP Partners and a host of varied health professionals,employing over 80 staff, including pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians,assisting with medication reviews. Experienced and well developed nurse,HCA, management and admin teams, 3 trainee ACPs, PA, ANP & ACP undertakinghome visits and care home reviews. Also social prescriber link workers, CareCo-ordinators and excellent integration with community nurses and the voluntarysector.

Weare a forward thinking, supportive Practice that embraces new ideas andinnovation with the aim of producing better patient outcomes and efficient waysof working. Our dedicated team is crucial to the success of the Practiceand the service it provides to our patient population. Ongoingrigorous processes of evaluation and review inform every aspect of the serviceswe provide, within each department, to ensure out high standards neverslip.

Weaim to provide a good work life balance, support out staff to develop, feelengaged and part of the Newgate Medical Group team.

Thisis an exciting time to join the team as we have plans to develop a new Healthand Wellbeing Hub that will benefit residents and patients across the areawhilst developing our team further.

Wewould love to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

Responsible for supporting the Partners in implementing effective medicine management within the practice, identifying areas for improvement and initiating and managing change, with a focus on supporting patients with diabetes.

1.Clinical

Develops, leads andcoordinates medicines optimisation services and a clinical pharmacy service forpeople living with diabetes within the PCN.

Enhances the existinggeneral practice/PCN diabetes team, by bringing a different skill set to thetable, to work collectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team to improvethe care of people living with diabetes.

Manages own clinical caseload of people living with diabetes,utilising prescribing qualifications to improve health outcomes, reducecomplications and reduce diabetes related hospital admissions.

Provides clinicalleadership to ensure high quality and cost-effective prescribing in diabetes,and other therapeutic areas.

Be an active member of andcontinue to build on the PCN DiAST team.

Leads on the implementationof new drugs and technologies for diabetes.

Provides highly specialisedpharmaceutical advice in complex situations (where advice may be challenged) tohealth care professionals, patients and carers..

Utilises advanced specialistknowledge covering a range of procedures and underpinned by relevantbroad-based knowledge, experience and competence.

Develops and maintains newskills in extended scope practice in response to emerging knowledge andtechniques.

Where appropriate toservice delivery, demonstrates highly developed physical skills which requirespecific training or considerable experience to attain the level required advanced moving and handling techniques, advanced clinical assessment, clinicalprocedures such as foot checks or diagnostic tests.

Demonstrates independentpractice responding to social, scientific, clinical and ethical issues whichare encountered.

Makes complex judgementsrequiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of options by integratingcomplex knowledge sources in new and/or unfamiliar contexts and determining theappropriate application of clinical guidelines relevant to patient needs.

Responsible for developingnew and innovative clinical pathways across the broad health and social carecontext.

Works to standards ofadvanced proficiency identified by their professional and regulatory bodiesperforming clinical treatments/procedures to a highly specialist standard.

Prioritises their ownworkload within agreed objectives deciding when to refer to others asappropriate.

Engages and activelyinvolves the individual and, if appropriate, their family/carer, in theassessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of treatmentand/or care by using person-centred techniques to promote a culture of selfcare, involvement and empowerment.

Approaches each individualwith care, compassion and sensitivity ensuring that these values are reflectedin all aspects of the role including the management of compliments andcomplaints.

Acts as an advocate forpatients and their families/carers recognising the boundaries of their clinicalknowledge; liaising and referring on to other services / agencies as required.

Reduces health inequalitiesin diabetes care, targeting difficult to reach populations and seldom heard ofcommunities, to try to level diabetes care.

Ensures that patientexperience is core to all clinical and service development gaining support fromthe appropriate teams as required.

There may be, on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks, vary duties, consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Skills and attributes

Essential

Knowledge

Essential