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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
166-ICD-6720400
Employer
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Grange Family Health Centre
Town
Chesterfield
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 pa, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/11/2024 23:59

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Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Pharmacist RPC

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and enthusiastic pharmacists to join our friendly and forward-thinking team based within the Royal Primary Care Chesterfield / North Derbyshire PCN. We are seeking pharmacists who are highly motivated, innovative, and keen to develop clinical skills as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

Applications from pharmacists with experience in primary care are welcomed especially form those who have completed the CPPE pathway training (although this is not essential).

This role is purely base in primary care but as a part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, RPC is uniquely placed to develop strong links between primary and secondary care pharmacy roles.  

Main duties of the job

You will undertake a clinical pharmacy role within North Derbyshire PCN practices. This will involve a wide variety of tasks that will allow enthusiastic individuals the opportunity to develop their skills. The role will involve independent prescribing and as a PCN role structured medication reviews.

You will also be expected to undertake a senor role within the team in the provision of medicines governance advice or education and training needs.

Working for our organisation

Royal Primary Care is the leading at scale provider or primary care services in the Midlands. Rated as outstanding by the CQC and providing an award-winning range of primary care services in North Derbyshire. Working collaboratively with a range of System providers and being credited with bringing Derbyshire County population health metrics above the national average.

Recognised for innovation and digital reach Royal Primary Care is the flagship for the substantive primary care model aligned to an acute hospital Trust, influencing national policy on alternative primary care models.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  1. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address the public health and social needs of patients within ND PCN member practices
  2. Provide expertise in clinical Structured Medication Reviews (SMR's) and address the public health and social needs of patients within ND PCN member practices
  3. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need following discharge
  4. Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
  5. Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals
  6. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
  7. Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
  8. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
  9. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
  10. Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
  11. Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions
  12. Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
  13. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
  14. Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks
  15. Working within the practice-based team across the ND PCN member practices to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as
  • Frail elderly
  • Problematic polypharmacy
  • Renal impairment
  • Hepatic impairment
  • Substance misuse
  • Patients on high-risk medicines
  • STOPP/START identified patients
  • Revolving door Hospital admissions
  1. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the ND PCN Member Practice's
  2. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
  3. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence
  4. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
  5. Reduce problematic polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
  6. To work alongside Primary Care colleagues supporting vaccination programme
  7. To support patients in managing long term health conditions such as:
  • Metabolic
  • Lipids
  • CVD including Hypertension
  • Respiratory Conditions
  • Diabetes

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • M.Pharm and registered with GPhC
  • Diploma/MSc Clinical Pharmacy
  • Experience in vaccinating
  • prescriber
Desirable criteria
  • Additional post registration in specialist area
  • structured medication review

Experience

Essential criteria
  • CPD
  • team working
  • cost and quality of prescribing
Desirable criteria
  • primary care experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Wide ranging clinical skills & knowledge
  • Initiative
  • Teaching skills
  • Communication and presentation skills
  • Time management skills
  • current issues in meds optimisation
Desirable criteria
  • evidence of staff management / supervision
  • knowledge in managing relevant primary care conditions

personal attributes

Essential criteria
  • strong communication and influencing skills
  • conscientious
  • reliable

CARE values

Essential criteria
  • care values

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Goodchild
Job title
Section Lead
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT
Calow
S44 5BL
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
Telephone
01246512150
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