• Job Description

  Req#: A5081-24-0005?language=en&page=229&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We would like you to join our team as a Clinical Pharmacist(30 hours per week) to provide safe, quality, pharmacy services in primary care, working with a wide range of colleagues within the Primary Care Network. You will have the opportunity to develop and deliver safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. In this role you have the potential to help manage general practice workload and significantly improve quality of care and safety for patients

  Main duties of the job

  Thepost holder isapharmacist,who actswithintheir professionalboundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists inTownships 2 member practices. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinicalpharmacistwhowillmentorthem.

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facingrole. The post holder will take responsibility for areasof chronic diseasemanagement within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews toproactivelymanagepatientswithcomplexpolypharmacy.

  The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff withregards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support therepeat prescriptionsystem, dealwith acuteprescription requests,andmedicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing,providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both publicandsocialcareneedsofpatientintheGPpractice(s).

  The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation andquality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomesframeworkandenhancedservices.

  About us

  Townships 2Primary Care network comprises of 5 practices: Woodhouse Health Centre, Richmond Medical Centre, Charnock Health Centre, Jaunty Medical Centre and Stonecroft Medical Centre.Townships 2 Primary Care Network are a network of forward-thinking General Practices covering circa 37,000 patients in the S12 and S13 areas of Sheffield. Our aim is to create a diverse team that support one another, and you will work closely with the existing clinical teams to deliver excellent patient care working innovatively and collaboratively with colleagues.

  Townships 2Primary Care network currently have a team of two full time clinical pharmacists and 4 pharmacy technicians, and we would love you to join our team.

  Date posted

  28 February 2024

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £41,925 to £46,800 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  A5081-24-0005

  Job locations

  Woodhouse Health Centre

  5-7 Skelton Lane

  Sheffield

  South Yorkshire

  S13 7LY

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical Pharmacist

  Job Description

  Responsible to: Townships 2 PCN

  Accountable to: Clinical Director

  Base: Woodhouse Health Centre

  Job Summary:

  The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in Townships 2 member practices. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will mentor them.

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

  The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

  The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

  2

  Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

  Patient facing Long- term condition Clinics

  See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

  Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Patient facing care home medication reviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

  Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

  Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

  Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

  Management of common/minor/self- limiting ailments

  Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

  Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

  Patient facing medicines support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

  Telephone medicines support

  Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

  Suggesting and recommending solutions.

  Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

  Unplanned hospital admissions

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

  Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

  To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

  Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

  Signposting

  Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat prescribing

  Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

  Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

  Risk stratification

  Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

  3

  This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

  Service development

  Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

  Information management

  Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision- making.

  Medicines quality improvement

  Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

  Medicines safety

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

  Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

  Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

  Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

  Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

  Education and Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Public health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  Collaborative Working Relationships

  Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs and other PCNs)

  Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

  Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

  Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

  Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

  Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

  Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Liaises with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

  Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to

  Patients

  GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

  Locality / GP prescribing lead

  PCN manager/Clinical Director

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals Community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical Pharmacist

  Job Description

  Responsible to: Townships 2 PCN

  Accountable to: Clinical Director

  Base: Woodhouse Health Centre

  Job Summary:

  The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in Townships 2 member practices. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will mentor them.

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

  The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

  The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

  2

  Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

  Patient facing Long- term condition Clinics

  See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

  Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Patient facing care home medication reviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

  Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

  Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

  Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

  Management of common/minor/self- limiting ailments

  Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

  Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

  Patient facing medicines support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

  Telephone medicines support

  Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

  Suggesting and recommending solutions.

  Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

  Unplanned hospital admissions

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

  Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

  To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

  Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

  Signposting

  Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat prescribing

  Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

  Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

  Risk stratification

  Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

  3

  This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

  Service development

  Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

  Information management

  Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision- making.

  Medicines quality improvement

  Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

  Medicines safety

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

  Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

  Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

  Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

  Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

  Education and Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Public health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  Collaborative Working Relationships

  Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs and other PCNs)

  Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

  Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

  Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

  Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

  Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

  Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Liaises with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

  Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to

  Patients

  GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

  Locality / GP prescribing lead

  PCN manager/Clinical Director

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals Community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  Person Specification

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  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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  Employer details

  Employer name

  Townships 2 PCN

  Address

  Woodhouse Health Centre

  5-7 Skelton Lane

  Sheffield

  South Yorkshire

  S13 7LY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://townships1and2pcn.gpweb.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Townships 2 PCN

  Address

  Woodhouse Health Centre

  5-7 Skelton Lane

  Sheffield

  South Yorkshire

  S13 7LY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://townships1and2pcn.gpweb.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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