Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: Clinical Pharmacist/Independent Prescriber

HOURS: Full Time / Part Time / Hybrid Working

PLACE OF WORK: Based at both The Deeping Practice and Glinton Surgery

RESPONSIBLE TO: Prescribing Lead, Practice Manager

About us:

The Deepings Practice is a large practice based in Market Deeping with a branch site at Glinton, we serve over 24,000 patients. The Deepings practice has a large team of clinical and non-clinical staff lead by seven partners and a full senior management team. We have a CQC score of Good and strive for excellence in all areas of patient care. We have a strong focus on health promotion and personalised care, supporting patients to make informed decisions about their health and social care. We are a dynamic, friendly, and supportive team with experience in training GPs and other healthcare professionals.

Job Summary:

We are seeking to recruit a positive and self-motivated individual to take on the role of Clinical Pharmacist within our Pharmacy Team. The successful clinical pharmacist candidate will be an independent prescriber and play an important role within our pharmacy team and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.

Main Duties:

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients within your current competence, using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Being responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.
• Support the leadership team on ensuring person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement is achieved, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care where possible.
• Support the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
• Being part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.

• Contribute to clinical governance activities / clinical audit to ensure continual improvement of service delivery.
• Provide services to support the practices deliver QOF, DES, DMOS and IIF targets.
• Work to agreed standards, monitor and maintain the standard of care offered.
• Ensure you are competent and appropriately trained to carry out your areas of responsibility, including keeping up to date with practice policies and clinical standards
• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
• Ensure confidentiality is adhered to at all times.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• Use relevant IT systems to support role including SystemOne, TeamNet, Word, Excel, Access, and other systems where necessary.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Be flexible in undertaking any other duties as deemed appropriate to the role.
• Assist in promoting and maintaining your own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.
• Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

• To complete any required training or courses relevant to/required of your role.

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.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality & Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: Clinical Pharmacist/Independent Prescriber

HOURS: Full Time / Part Time / Hybrid Working

PLACE OF WORK: Based at both The Deeping Practice and Glinton Surgery

RESPONSIBLE TO: Prescribing Lead, Practice Manager

About us:

The Deepings Practice is a large practice based in Market Deeping with a branch site at Glinton, we serve over 24,000 patients. The Deepings practice has a large team of clinical and non-clinical staff lead by seven partners and a full senior management team. We have a CQC score of Good and strive for excellence in all areas of patient care. We have a strong focus on health promotion and personalised care, supporting patients to make informed decisions about their health and social care. We are a dynamic, friendly, and supportive team with experience in training GPs and other healthcare professionals.

Job Summary:

We are seeking to recruit a positive and self-motivated individual to take on the role of Clinical Pharmacist within our Pharmacy Team. The successful clinical pharmacist candidate will be an independent prescriber and play an important role within our pharmacy team and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.

Main Duties:

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients within your current competence, using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Being responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.
• Support the leadership team on ensuring person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement is achieved, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care where possible.
• Support the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
• Being part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.

• Contribute to clinical governance activities / clinical audit to ensure continual improvement of service delivery.
• Provide services to support the practices deliver QOF, DES, DMOS and IIF targets.
• Work to agreed standards, monitor and maintain the standard of care offered.
• Ensure you are competent and appropriately trained to carry out your areas of responsibility, including keeping up to date with practice policies and clinical standards
• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
• Ensure confidentiality is adhered to at all times.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• Use relevant IT systems to support role including SystemOne, TeamNet, Word, Excel, Access, and other systems where necessary.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Be flexible in undertaking any other duties as deemed appropriate to the role.
• Assist in promoting and maintaining your own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.
• Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

• To complete any required training or courses relevant to/required of your role.

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.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality & Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Clear understanding of professional responsibility and accountability
• Knowledge of current clinical evidence-based practice.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare

Desirable

• Experience of delivering patient care in a primary care, urgent or community setting, or willing to gain experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the GPHC
• Educated to degree/masters level in Pharmacy, Pharm/BPharm (Or equivalent)
• To maintain registration as a Pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes

Desirable

• Clinical Diploma
• Independent prescribing or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Clear understanding of professional responsibility and accountability
• Knowledge of current clinical evidence-based practice.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare

Desirable

• Experience of delivering patient care in a primary care, urgent or community setting, or willing to gain experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the GPHC
• Educated to degree/masters level in Pharmacy, Pharm/BPharm (Or equivalent)
• To maintain registration as a Pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes

Desirable

• Clinical Diploma
• Independent prescribing or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Deepings Practice

Address

Godsey Lane

Market Deeping

Peterborough

PE6 8DD

Employer's website

https://www.deepingspractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)