Remote Senior Clinical Pharmacist IP

Job responsibilities

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility:

Support Head Office with core functions such as: administrative and recruitment support.

• Maintain a safe clinical rota and supporting staff logistics.
• Work with admin to discuss rotas, cover, illness, HR emails from pharmacists and support.
• Work with recruitment when necessary to support the recruitment and retention of staff.
• Partake in interviewing.
• Support the Trainee Technicians with their workload - meet with them, deliver required training, track their progress, feedback on their work.
• Write, approve and review documents, policies, protocols.
• Attend and engage at the Senior weekly meetings and progress actions assigned to yourself for completion in a timely manner.

Deliver training :

• To ensure staff are competent to deliver work within their boundary.
• Develop training guides, SOPs, policies to support their work.
• Signposting pharmacists needing additional training to resources (MORPh, CPPE, RPS, other).
• Research resources to signpost to (for clinicians and patients).
• Perform staff monthly 1-2-1s, review ongoing competency using the competency framework and complete annual appraisals.
• Observing CPPE work, giving feedback and liaising with their clinical supervisor or CPPE tutor as required.

Support The Team :

• Check all Pharmacists have appropriate workload and ledgers. Conduct quality assurance reviews of consultations and provide constructive feedback & set out a learning and development plan.
• Support Pharmacists with clinical queries when needed.
• Support with clinical sessions, where required.
• Working with team to provide progress reviews of PCN workstreams.
• Ensure pharmacists are working within their clinical competency at all times and are achieving a holistic approach when consulting with patients.
• Make sure pharmacists show knowledge about and adhere to the following processes:
• Ensuring teams are working to a high clinical standard with their consults through supervision, feedback and creating development plans.
• Understanding and experience of conducting long term condition reviews, complex medication reviews and daily practice workstreams such as medicines reconciliation and medication queries. With a consideration of how to improve these processes for practices.
• Assist & manage the practices & PCNs local incentive scheme and QOF medication-related requirements to ensure they meet the target.
• Auditing practices workstreams and identify areas for medication related improvement and safety.
• Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.

Support the companys Clinical Governance agenda

• Medicines safety.
• Risk management.
• Responding to feedback from Practices e.g. complaints/ investigations, significant events.
• Ensuring compliance with CQC standards where medicines management/optimisation is involved.
• Tracking completion and maintenance of mandatory training requirement.
• Supporting activities to complete revalidation and maintain registration as a registered pharmacist with the GPhC.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a practice-based or PCN based clinical pharmacist.
• Qualified pharmacist demonstrably established as practicing at an advanced level, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Holds an independent prescribing qualification and has experiencing of working as an independent prescriber.
• Successful completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or holds equivalence or exemption certificate

Desirable

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

The Pharmacist Network

Address

Oak Road Medical Centre

8 Oak Road

Romford

RM3 0PT

Employer's website

http://www.thepharmacistnetwork.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)