Job Description

Job summary

We are seeking a full time Clinical Pharmacist to work at Yardley Wood Health Centre within the Moseley, Billesley and Yardley Wood area (MOBY PCN).

Please note that the pay of this role will be Dependant on Experience.

We are ideally looking for Clinical Pharmacists who have already completed the CPPE Pathway .

This is an exciting opportunity to join our existing team. Professional Leadership will be provided by the Consultant Pharmacist at OHP and the Lead Clinical Pharmacist in the PCN.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please contact: Clair Huckerby Chief (Consultant) Pharmacist Our Health Partnership: Clair.Huckerby@OurHealthPartnership.com

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will perform medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and implement systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the PCN.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients..

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 39 surgeries, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

The partnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, cutting down the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale to get best value from budgets. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services. And it can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of medicines optimisation within the PCN and undertake structured clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement (QI) and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services at practice and PCN level.

The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system and the wider OHP organisation to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the PCN contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.

The may be updated in line with the needs of the organisation.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility:

Patient facing Long-term condition clinics

See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence.

Patient facing care home medication reviews

Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence.

Work with care home staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review

Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Patient facing medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence

Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high?risk patient groups. This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following transfer of care including: discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high?risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Risk stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP Practice Population level.

Medicines quality improvement

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor Network prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practice's computer system.

Auditing practice's compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide practice and PCN level information to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines.

This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCN is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. This will include implementing OHP systems to ensure consistency of approach across the organisation.

Public health

To support public health campaigns.

To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing on reducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy

Agreement

This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care. Demonstrates the use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. provider and commissioning organisations.) Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team. Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary. Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the PCN and locality. Foster and maintain strong links with all services across PCN. Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with other sectors of pharmacy across the pharmacy system. Liaises with peers on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit. Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients GP, Nurses, other practice staff and other healthcare professionals including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from provider and commissioning organisations.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Experience working as a clinical pharmacist Hold an independent prescribing qualification. Ideally have completed the CPPE pathway Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE and local best practice guidelines.
NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification, skill and competence held will vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification for details.

Leadership

Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and can implement this appropriately within the workplace. Demonstrate understanding of and contributes to the organisational workplace vision. Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in the development of the role and practices. Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of the service. Reviews progress (at least annually) and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Management

Demonstrates an understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and or service. Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation. Demonstrates understanding of and conforms to relevant standards of practice Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy and protocol Follows professional and organisational policies and procedures relating to performance management Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Education, Training and Development

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and or service Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process Demonstrates the ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experienced colleagues and peers. Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity in accordance with professional expectations; working alongside senior clinical pharmacists to identifying development needs. Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes commensurate to role. Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice. Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development Enrolled into review and appraisal systems within the practice and wider organisation

Research and Evaluation

Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.

Health and Safety/Risk Management

The post-holder must comply at all times with the organisation and Practice's Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System. The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984), The General Data Protection Regulations (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990). The post-holder will comply with all necessary training requirements relevant to the role as identified by the organisation. The post-holder will have personal indemnity insurance relevant to skill and role.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Respect for Patient Confidentiality

The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Special Working Conditions

The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies. The post-holder will have contact with body fluids i.e. wound exudates; urine etc. while in clinical practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GPhC Registered Pharmacist GPhC Independent Prescriber Qualification

Desirable

Minor Ailments certification CPPEP Post Graduate Clinical Qualification

Experience

Desirable

Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist Experience working in Primary Care Broad Knowledge of General Practice

Skills

Essential:

Excellent communication skills (written and oral) Strong IT skills Clear, polite telephone manner Competent in the use of Office and Outlook Effective time management (Planning & Organising) Good interpersonal skills Problem solving & analytical skills Ability to follow policy and procedure

Skills

Desirable

EMIS / SystemOne / Vision user skills Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters Ability to work as a team member and autonomously

Personal Qualities

Essential

Polite and Confident Flexible and cooperative Motivated Forward Thinker High levels of integrity and loyalty Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations Ability to work under pressure

Other

Essential

Flexibility to work outside of core office hours Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check Evidence of continuing professional development
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Employer name

Our Health Partnership

Location

1st Floor

1856 Pershore Road

Birmingham

B30 3AS

Employer's website

https://ourhealthpartnership.com

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Company pension Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:

Day shift
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 23/06/2025
Reference ID: MOBY PCN CP