Clinical Pharmacist WBC Primary Care Network - Hereford City
We are delighted to recruit an additional Clinical Pharmacist to join our established PCN Pharmacy Team. We are looking for: an experienced non-medical prescriber, or Pharmacist prepared to work towards this qualification a candidate who is interested in supporting the network's population health priorities and requirements of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service a keen team player We can offer you: clinical leadership and peer support from experienced Pharmacists within the PCN and countywide established working relationships with general practice teams Opportunities to develop your clinical practice Herefordshire is a very special place to live and work. This beautiful, green county is uniquely placed with providers across the system committed to working together to improve the health and wellbeing of Herefordshire people and provide more joined up care closer to home. We are
One Herefordshire
. *Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 11th February 2025* Main duties of the job
As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will be expected to provide prescribing advice and support to practice clinicians, staff, and patients. This includes prescription and medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF and local incentive schemes, audit, and medicines safety. Clinical work at the individual practices will include medication reviews, minor illness consultations, and reviews post discharge. You will have individual supervision from a GP and our Lead Pharmacist and be part of an established team of experienced Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In Herefordshire we take a collaborative approach across system partners e.g. other practices, PCNs, care homes, and the Acute/Community Trust. To discuss the role, ask questions or arrange an informal visit please contact WBC Lead Pharmacist, Damsel Kuriakose at damsel.kuriakose1@nhs.net About us
WBC Primary Care Network includes 3 Hereford city-based practices; Wargrave House Surgery, Belmont Medical Centre, and Cantilupe Surgery. As a small network, we are very fortunate to be able to work closely together to understand the shared needs of our patient population and directly implement new ways of providing excellent patient care. Primary Care Network staff are employed by Taurus Healthcare on their behalf. Taurus was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out-of-hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patient's home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in-hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible. Job summary
We are delighted to recruit an additional Clinical Pharmacist to join our established PCN Pharmacy Team. Job responsibilities
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (Please note this is a list of options; it is not exhaustive. Which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SELGP Group). It is, however, mandated by NHS England that this role is patient-facing in nature. Patient facing or remote Clinical Medication Reviews:
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and work within your scope of practice as an independent prescriber to implement any necessary changes (or produce recommendations for/refer to other prescribing pharmacists, nurses, and/or GPs to implement if outside your scope). Medicines quality improvement:
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas identified by yourself and agreed by the PCN or as directed by the PCN. Medicines safety:
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal, and other local and national guidance. Leadership and management:
Contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues for the PCN. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments:
Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Patient facing medicines support:
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support:
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines. Management of medicines at change of care setting:
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or care homes. Medicine information to practice staff and patients:
Answer relevant medicine-related inquiries from GPs, other network staff, and patients with queries about medicines. Drug monitoring:
Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN. Signposting:
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care. Repeat prescribing:
Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy. Service development:
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the implementation and delivery of new services that have medicinal components. Information management:
Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks. Education and Training:
Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team. Care Quality Commission:
Work with the general practice teams to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health:
Support public health campaigns. Working alongside peers in community and secondary care teams:
Foster a culture of collaborative working between sectors. Special working conditions:
The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites. Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Desirable
Membership of Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA) Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society 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. Employer details
Employer name
Taurus Healthcare Limited Address
Taurus Healthcare Ltd Whitecross Road Hereford HR4 0DG Employer's website
https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk £47,613.19 to £51,400.61 a year subject to training and experience
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We are delighted to recruit an additional Clinical Pharmacist to join our established PCN Pharmacy Team. We are looking for: an experienced non-medical prescriber, or Pharmacist prepared to work towards this qualification a candidate who is interested in supporting the network's population health priorities and requirements of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service a keen team player We can offer you: clinical leadership and peer support from experienced Pharmacists within the PCN and countywide established working relationships with general practice teams Opportunities to develop your clinical practice Herefordshire is a very special place to live and work. This beautiful, green county is uniquely placed with providers across the system committed to working together to improve the health and wellbeing of Herefordshire people and provide more joined up care closer to home. We are
One Herefordshire
. *Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 11th February 2025* Main duties of the job
As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will be expected to provide prescribing advice and support to practice clinicians, staff, and patients. This includes prescription and medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF and local incentive schemes, audit, and medicines safety. Clinical work at the individual practices will include medication reviews, minor illness consultations, and reviews post discharge. You will have individual supervision from a GP and our Lead Pharmacist and be part of an established team of experienced Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In Herefordshire we take a collaborative approach across system partners e.g. other practices, PCNs, care homes, and the Acute/Community Trust. To discuss the role, ask questions or arrange an informal visit please contact WBC Lead Pharmacist, Damsel Kuriakose at damsel.kuriakose1@nhs.net About us
WBC Primary Care Network includes 3 Hereford city-based practices; Wargrave House Surgery, Belmont Medical Centre, and Cantilupe Surgery. As a small network, we are very fortunate to be able to work closely together to understand the shared needs of our patient population and directly implement new ways of providing excellent patient care. Primary Care Network staff are employed by Taurus Healthcare on their behalf. Taurus was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out-of-hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patient's home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in-hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible. Job summary
We are delighted to recruit an additional Clinical Pharmacist to join our established PCN Pharmacy Team. Job responsibilities
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (Please note this is a list of options; it is not exhaustive. Which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SELGP Group). It is, however, mandated by NHS England that this role is patient-facing in nature. Patient facing or remote Clinical Medication Reviews:
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and work within your scope of practice as an independent prescriber to implement any necessary changes (or produce recommendations for/refer to other prescribing pharmacists, nurses, and/or GPs to implement if outside your scope). Medicines quality improvement:
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas identified by yourself and agreed by the PCN or as directed by the PCN. Medicines safety:
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal, and other local and national guidance. Leadership and management:
Contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues for the PCN. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments:
Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Patient facing medicines support:
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support:
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines. Management of medicines at change of care setting:
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or care homes. Medicine information to practice staff and patients:
Answer relevant medicine-related inquiries from GPs, other network staff, and patients with queries about medicines. Drug monitoring:
Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN. Signposting:
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care. Repeat prescribing:
Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy. Service development:
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the implementation and delivery of new services that have medicinal components. Information management:
Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks. Education and Training:
Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team. Care Quality Commission:
Work with the general practice teams to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health:
Support public health campaigns. Working alongside peers in community and secondary care teams:
Foster a culture of collaborative working between sectors. Special working conditions:
The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites. Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Desirable
Membership of Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA) Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society 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. Employer details
Employer name
Taurus Healthcare Limited Address
Taurus Healthcare Ltd Whitecross Road Hereford HR4 0DG Employer's website
https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk £47,613.19 to £51,400.61 a year subject to training and experience
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