clinical pharmacist London, England
Job description
CONTRACT END DATE: 31ST MARCH 2024
Waltham Forest Primary Care Networks
Job Description- Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7)
Job title: Clinical Pharmacist
Accountable to: PCN Clinical Director
Location/Site: PCN Members Practice
Duration Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Job Purpose:
Waltham Forest Federated GP Network are supporting the Primary Care Networks across the borough to recruit Clinical Pharmacists
The Clinical Pharmacist will have a key role in supporting delivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications. For the new Structured Medications Review and Optimisation requirements this will include tackling over-medication of patients, including inappropriate use of antibiotics, withdrawing medicines no longer needed through NHS-led programmes such as low priority prescribing and medicines optimisation more widely. For Enhanced Health in Care Homes residents will benefit from regular clinical-pharmacy led medicines reviews.
Core Duties:
The Clinical Pharmacist will:
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Uphold a prescribing qualification, or training to become a prescriber, and will work with and alongside the multi-disciplinary team across the Primary Care Network.
- Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex poly-pharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long-term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stop Over Medication Programme).
- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the network.
- Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Support further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacists across networks and the wider health system.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation.
Other Duties:
- Work within the policies of scheme and Practices.
- Maintain a good working knowledge of health and safety procedures.
- Promote client involvement in the management of the service.
- Participate in regular supervision sessions and appraisals with your line manager. Attend training and development activities as identified and participate in meetings as required.
- Maintain administration systems and workspace used in a clean and tidy condition.
- Maintain a good working knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and fire precautions, and operate the correct procedures and participate in policy development and data collection where appropriate.
- Work flexibly to meet the needs of clients.
- To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and purpose of the job as may be agreed by the post holder.
Communication
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Health & Safety
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
- Reporting potential risks identified
Confidentiality
- While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their careers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Personal/Professional Development
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ATTRIBUTE ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE
Education/ Qualifications
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber or currently working towards a qualification
- Completed CPPE Primary Education Pathway
Knowledge & Experience
- Minimum of two years’ experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
Skills
- Knowledge of IT systems, including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
Personal Attributes * Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities*
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleagues when necessary
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 8 months
Salary: £49,178.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 21/08/2023
