Job summary
Are you an experienced Clinical Pharmacist ready to take the next step in your career?

We are seeking a passionate and forward-thinking Senior Clinical Pharmacist to lead, manage and support our multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality patient care to achieve the requirements of the PCN Clinical Pharmacy team workplan.

Main duties of the job
Working as a clinical pharmacist within the team, the postholder will also be responsible for developing and maintaining clinically and cost-effective prescribing provision across the network population - improving patient outcomes and helping to relieve service and financial pressures across the PCN.

The role provides an exciting opportunity to develop leadership and management knowledge and skills in addition to patient-facing, person-centred and integrated care. The post holder will be supported by the PCN Clinical Lead to support integration of pharmacy work into practices.

About us
East Cleveland PCN consists of 5 member practices serving a patient population of approximately 42,000. The successful applicant will be expected to work in any of these practices to support with service delivery.

East Cleveland PCN offers access to the NHS Pension scheme, 6 weeks paid annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff) and provides an employee assistance and benefits scheme.

Job responsibilities
Clinically, the post holder will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases undertaking clinical medication reviews to support the proactive management of complex polypharmacy patients. This will include, but not be limited to, elderly people in care homes, patients with multiple co-morbidities and those with learning disability and autism.

As an independent prescriber, the postholder will provide clinical leadership in the delivery of person-centred medicines optimisation, helping to support standardised approaches to care across the PCN and forging strong relationships with both specialist and community pharmacists to promote system-wide medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist will coordinate the workload and allocation of workload of PCN Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians across the network. The post-holder will provide day-to-day support to team and practices in respect to management of medication and prescription queries. They will support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safe prescribing providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, whilst proactively and reactively addressing both public and social care needs of the network population.

The post-holder will work closely with the PCN management team and be responsible for producing the Pharmacy team annual work plan in conjunction with Pharmacy hub lead. The successful candidate will directly provide the duties outlined in the Job Description in addition to any other tasks deemed relevant to the role. The Senior Clinical Pharmacist will provide support and supervision to both Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in the delegation of relevant responsibilities as appropriate, provide mentorship to individuals through regular 1-2-1 meetings and annual appraisals and participate in team recruitment as necessary.

Person Specification
Skills
Essential

• Audit and quality improvement, including the review and analysis of data; risk/issue management and addressing quality/performance in practice
• Digital skills, including ability to access and competently use clinical systems and electronic transfer of prescriptions
• Strong clinical leadership, management, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to apply effective clinical judgement in the prioritisation and decision-making aspects of the role

Desirable

• Clinical research skills

Qualifications
Essential

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified from CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway
• Hold an independent prescribing qualification
• Knowledge and awareness of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures relevant to the role

Desirable

• Masters or ACP qualification
• Leadership and management qualification
• Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care Network arrangements and their contribution to the NHS 10-Year Plan
• Knowledge, awareness and experience of brief intervention and referral pathways that provide opportunistic advice and support for preventable illness and/or long-term conditions receptive to lifestyle/pharmacological support

Experience
Essential

• Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience
• Previous experience of leading and support a team
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience in conducting medication reviews
• Experience in developing and implementing new policies and processes to improve the quality and safety of practice, in the context of medicines optimisation
• Experience in supporting common acute and long-term conditions
• Experience in working in a care home setting in the capacity of providing patient-centred medicines optimisation support.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

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

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.