Job Title: Pharmacist
Reports to: Pharmacy Team Manager
Accountable to: Lead Clinical Pharmacist & Chief Executive Officer
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week over 5 days
Salary Level: WTE £42,000-£49,000 dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent

Background
TPC is now further developing its organisational infrastructure and responding to new service development opportunities. TPC holds contracts for the delivery of Dermatology and Minor Surgery services, and the provision of clinicians into the Bradford Enhanced Access Service. We have a Pharmacy Hub with clinicians working on behalf of Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and deliver a Warfarin service to practices across Bradford District & Craven.

The TPC Pharmacy Hub provides a supportive training platform for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in primary care. Pharmacy staff are integrated into the primary care team in PCNs and into the Warfarin service. We aim to provide training opportunities to pharmacy technicians and pharmacists from under-graduate to senior level and offer a wide range of career development options from education and mentoring to front line primary care provision or specialist services.

Role Purpose
As an experienced pharmacist with a minimum of 3 years of working post-qualification in general practice, you will work with managers, the GP Clinical Lead, the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and the team of Pharmacists & Pharmacy Technicians to provide a high-quality pharmacy service to our practices & PCNs in a supportive, learning environment.

About us
Trust Primary Care Ltd (TPC) is a federation of 16 local GP practices located in and around Bradford. Our aim is to shape the future of primary care, delivering the highest quality healthcare services to the people of the city, providing local access points for a developing range of core and non-core services.

At TPC, we are working together to meet the challenges of providing high quality primary care services alongside this evolving care landscape. Each member practice retains total independence whilst collaborating in the further development of local primary care services. The objective is to put our patients at the heart of everything we do, maximising available resources and skills to ensure we provide a relevant and responsive service designed around what people really need. TPC is all about sustaining excellence in primary care in the long-term to the benefit of all our user groups.

Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities (Overview)
This is an overview of the role, but its nature means this list is by no means exhaustive and the Pharmacist will be called upon to use established skills according to the evolving needs of TPC. They will need to be prepared to adapt to new challenges, such as setting up new services and clinics as needed. Please see the attached "Job Description and Personal Specification" for the full comprehensive job description including further information on the below list of responsibilities for this role:

• Structured (Clinical) Medication Review
• Patient-Facing Medicines Support
• Patient-Facing Long Term Conditions Clinics
• Unplanned Hospital Admissions
• Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments
• Telephone Medicines Support
• Medicines Quality Improvement
• Medicines Safety
• Management of Medicines at Change of Care Setting
• Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
• Drug Monitoring
• Signposting
• Repeat Prescribing
• Service Development
• Implementation of Local and National Guidelines and Formulary Recommendations
• Information Management
• Education and Training
• Care Quality Commission compliance work
• Public Health Campaign Support/Knowledge Sharing
• Collaborative Working
• Research and Development
• Quality Maintenance and Improvement

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• A minimum of 3 years experience of working within general practice, post-qualification.
• Experience of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information.
• A growth mindset which has contributed to service expansion, innovation, or development.
• Evidence of significant personal professional development.
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with external agencies or stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience of dosing warfarin and other anticoagulant drugs.
• Experience of mentoring or training other pharmacy staff within the primary care setting.

Knowledge and understanding
Essential

• Knowledge of NHS structures and primary care delivery models
• Understands the principles of research governance.
• Understands the principles and importance of evidence-based healthcare.
• Understands the wider determinants of health, including social, economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.

Personal effectiveness
Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities.
• 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., Health & Care Partnerships).
• Can recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Able to finish work tasks.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
• Demonstrates personal accountability and works well under pressure.
• High level of written and oral communication skills.
• 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.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.

Desirable

• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) + 1 year pre-registration training.
• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training.
• Successful completion of CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP).
• Successful completion of, or currently studying to become, an Independent Prescriber.
• Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Desirable

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.

Other
Essential

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
• Adaptable.
• Works effectively independently and as a team player.
• Self-motivated.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis. There is an expectation that all clinical staff may need to visit patients in their own homes at times and/or attend practice meetings.

Skills and abilities
Essential

• Meets the requirements outlined in Appendices 1 & 2 of the NHSEs "NHS England Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Programme: Training Site Requirements"
• Able to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
• Appreciates the nature of prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing, within the general practice setting.
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions.
• Able to implement medicines optimisation projects and programmes.
• Understands the wider determinants of health, including social, economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.

Desirable

• Ability to interpret warfarin-relevant blood results.
• Appreciation of relevant criteria required when prescribing warfarin or other anticoagulant drugs.
• Understands the principles of research governance.

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.