Sherborne PCN Clinical Pharmacist

This vacancy is for an experienced, caring Pharmacist to join our established team in Sherborne.

As a Pharmacist you will provide expert clinical advice on medicines and polypharmacy. Ensuring the provision of safe, modern, medicines and personalised care. Taking a proactive role in medicines optimisation, in line with contractual obligations and expected standards. Support the repeat prescription service and undertake medication reviews. Deliver an integrated, safe, cost effective and high-quality pharmacy service, as part of a comprehensive healthcare package based on our population needs.

Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team of pharmacy technicians and the wider healthcare team in order to maintain a good working environment.

Job description

The skills required for this role include a positive attitude to collaborative working, with a focus on providing the best quality care, timely and effectively.

You will possess the ability to deliver complex and sensitive information appropriately to patients, and deliver educational sessions/information to other healthcare professionals. You will be adaptable, with excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

The successful candidate will be able to work on their own initiative, organising workload, and work well as part of a team.

Used to working in a busy environment, able to cope well with change

Understanding of the need for confidentiality and adherence to policies

This post is for 30 hours per week, although there may be some scope for the right candidate

Salary will be according to experience

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered pharmacist

Primary Care Pharmacy Education Program (PCPEP)

Independent prescriber

IT literate with experience of analysing data, compiling reports and audits

Awareness and compliance with national standards of hygiene, infection control, professional requirements and best practice guidelines

Managing patient consultations

Dangerous drug (such as DMARDs & DOAC) monitoring

Desirable

• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience in Conducting Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) with patients
• Willingness to take responsibility for an LTC

Experience

Essential

• Compliance with all national and practice health and safety policies and clinical governance, following agreed safe working conditions, immediately reporting any incidents or hazards
• Improve compliance in patient medication
• Input and maintain patient record entries timely, ensuring correct use of codes
• Promote cost-effective, high-quality prescribing
• Maintain all required training, making effective use of knowledge and skills

Acknowledging the key challenges of demand, capacity, and activity. Help identify possible solutions with the focus on best practice, cost effectiveness and quality of healthcare

Support achievement of targets across individual practices and the PCN. Reporting on contractual requirements and areas of clinical focus, to support population health management

Maintain awareness of Safeguarding procedures, applying relevant legislation

Maintain confidentiality, complying with GDPR, Data Protection and Caldicott guidance

Provide feedback and data enabling the PCN to maintain and improve protocols and procedures, supporting the PCN to achieve Dorset ICB Prescribing Improvement in Neighbourhood Health (PINH) goals, or the equivalent.

Providing patients with personalised care, according to NHS and NICE guidelines

About the employer

You will need to be flexible and used to working independently, whilst forming part of a wider team. Sherborne has a team of three Prescribing Pharmacists, and three Pharmacy Technicians who work the majority of their week at one of our three practices, serving a total patient list of approx. 25,000. You will be contributing directly to our populations ongoing health needs in this vital patient facing role.

Employed by Sherborne Primary Care Network, the successful applicant will work primarily at one practice, to support the delivery of care to all our patients.