Clinical Pharmacist Practice Based - Primary Care

Job responsibilities

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. ICBs and 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 colleagues including ICB/PCN Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
• Liaises with ICB/PCN 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 ICB pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. Locality / GP prescribing lead, Locality managers, Community nurses and other allied health professionals, Community and hospital pharmacy teams and hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation.

Leadership:

• Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
• Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices where appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
• Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
• Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Management:

• Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
• Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve medicines related risk management issues according to policy/protocol, whilst understanding the process of escalation where appropriate.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to their own performance management.
• Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Research and Evaluation:

• Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature to ensure evidence based medicines and best practice are followed.
• Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.
• Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.
• Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place.
• Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.

Other duties:

• Any other duties, as agreed with the line manager to meet the needs of the organisation. This may include travel to other sites within the organisation.

Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good IT skills.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Work effectively, independently and as a team member.

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate ...