An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to join Solihull Rural Primary Care Network (PCN). You will be working alongside our small team of enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician providing support to 4 different Practices for a total of 33,000 patients.
You will also have the opportunity to work with our other highly-skilled PCN staff including GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, dietician and Physiotherapists. Not only will you gain a wide breadth of knowledge working alongside other healthcare professionals, but you will also gain invaluable experience working within a wider multi-disciplinary team.
Upon commencing employment, you will be working with the PCN team to support the delivery of the Pharmacy work plan for the PCN. If you are an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to further develop or wanting to make your next big career move then this could be the ideal role for you.
Summary of role:
· The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist and GP leads who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. Their line manager will be the PCN Manager. They will work autonomously and travel between surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
· The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
· The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage proactively patients with complex polypharmacy. Areas of focus might include CVD, COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, Frailty, etc. (Dependant on experience)
· The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. This may be face to face in surgery, patient’s homes, care homes, via telephone consultation or via online working. 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 patients 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.
· The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
· The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role, if not already, to become a non-medical prescriber.
· Have a clean UK driving licence and access to a car to ensure support to multiple sites across the PCN can be given. Or have a plan to gain a UK driving licence
Job Description - SRPCN Clinical Pharmacist
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