Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CT-7198706
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead PCN Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Are you a PCN Pharmacist looking to join a forward thinking Primary Care Network in a senior clinical management role?
This role is working alongside our existing Lead PCN Pharmacist in a part time, job share role, jointly leading our team of Senior Clinical Pharmacists.
Do you share our values of being ‘inspiring, caring, and working as one team’?
Do you want to work in a new and pioneering, integrated healthcare model that joins Primary and Secondary care to improve the healthcare of Sandwell residents?
Then join us at Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network!
Your Health Partnership is a cutting edge Primary Care Network working as part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust. We pride ourselves on being both innovative and bold as we plan and deliver services to our patients. We are seeking to recruit an independent prescribing senior clinical pharmacist to join our expanding Medicines Management Team in a management role. This exciting opportunity will mean working alongside other members of the primary care team to support medicine optimisation within our extensive and diverse network of GP surgeries.
General Practice is constantly changing and it is an exciting time to join us and become part of our ever growing, supportive, and forward thinking primary care network. Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network highly values the expertise of clinical pharmacists, and we view them as a fundamental part of developing the future of primary care services.
Main duties of the job
A key role will be involved in developing a strong relationship with our local care homes and through activities such as patient facing structured medication reviews, outlined in the NHS Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service document. Clinical pharmacists are also key to improving access for out patients, as 20% of our calls to the PCN are related to prescription or medication queries. The potential to improve patient care and experience in this area is significant - we want you to help shape this change!
The successful applicant will need to share the same high quality values of Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network and work as part of a team which includes GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurse, Physician Associates, and Social Prescribers.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Including:
- Team management
- Independent Prescriber
- Contribute to reducing medicines-related hospital admissions
- Prescribing support for others
- Support practice to deliver QOF/PCCF
- Conduct clinical audits
- Develop/shape PCN Pharmacy Team
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience post registration in primary, community or secondary care pharmacy
- Significant post qualifying experience as a pharmacist
- Experience operating as an Independent Prescriber in a range of clinical areas
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in General Practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent) + Pre-registration year and Specialist knowledge gained through post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy/therapeutics or equivalent level of knowledge/qualification
- Registered member of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Registered Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
- Membership pf the Primary Care Pharmacy Association
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Communication/Verbal Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-- based healthcare.
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michael Beech
- Job title
- Head of Acute Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866 934875
- Additional information
For more information or an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity then please contact Michael Beech, Head of Acute Clinical Services for Your Health Partnership on 07866 934875 or email [email protected]
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