PCN - Clinical Pharmacist - Calow and Brimington Practice

PCN - Clinical Pharmacist - Calow and Brimington Practice

Are you a pharmacist who is passionate aboutexploring a new opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in delivering excellence in patient clinical care?

The Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network is looking fora Clinical Pharmacist to join their growing Arc Primary Care Pharmacy Team towork alongside a team of Pharmacy Technicians and the practice team, in Calowand Brimington Practice, to develop their knowledge and skill with keen support from the existing team, to meet the diverse needs of our patients.

We are looking for an individual who is committed to improving patient care and is passionate about clinical pharmacy. The candidate must be able towork effectively as part of a diverse multidisciplinary team. Experience of working in general practice is preferable. However, due to the support available through the established and supportive pharmacy team and practice teams, pharmacists with limited general practice experience, including newlyqualified pharmacists, and pharmacists from other sectors with transferrableskills, would be considered.

The post holder would be supported in enrolling on,and completing, the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), andthen an independent prescribing course, unless already completed.

Arc Primary Care is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offerstructured meritorious pay progression and NHS pension.

Interviews will be held at Dunston Innovation Centre on the afternoon of Thursday 29

January

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies aspart of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management,patient-facing structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions,management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing,manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acuteprescription request, while addressing both the public health and social careneeds of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN.

They will be supported by senior andlead clinical pharmacists who will develop, manage and mentor them.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported todevelop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if that qualification isnot already held.

Calow and Brimington Practice is a friendly, dynamic and innovativepractice in the heart of the bustling village of Brimington, just outside ofthe picturesque Derbyshire town of Chesterfield. Calow and Brimington Practice isone of the ten practices in the Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN, which is one ofthe largest Primary Care Networks in the UK, delivering care to over 100,000patients combined. Whilst the role is integrated and embedded in one practice,it is part of a larger and growing team of pharmacy professionals across thePCN.

Arc Primary Care is the umbrella organisation of the Primary Care Network (PCN) in Chesterfield and Dronfield. Arc Primary Care is an alliance of GP Practices.

Our members consist of 10 GP practices which cover a population of over 100,000 patients. At Arc we are committed to ensuring the sustainability of General Practice (and the time honoured valued of list-based general practice model) and realising the benefits of working together.

We deliver enhanced services within the PCN designed to support and enhance the services offered by our member GP Practices within Chesterfield. We do this by employing staff to work through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme and finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the changing needs of the Practices; we bid for contracts to help tackle health inequalities and drive up standards of care within the Chesterfield and Dronfield locality.

Our mission:
Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and well-being for all.

Benefits of working with us:

• NHS Pension with employer contributions
• On appointment 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Entitlement of up to 5 days professional/study leave per annum, pro rata
• Access to Well-Being Support
• Blue light Card Discount
• Hybrid working arrangements can be discussed at interview

Key duties and responsibilities

Deliver clinics for patients requiring medication reviews,stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicines adherence reviews(including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-term condition/clinical reviews or holistic long-term condition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews). Provide support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.

2. Medicinesrelated clinical support for care homes

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