About this role
Job summary
This role will involve the leading on all aspects of medicines management within the Leeds GP Confederation. The role will be to support colleagues working within services and delivering contracts and provide pharmacy leadership and oversight of medicines management. This includes within the development of new services and opportunities.
This role will involve the leading of the clinical pharmacy team within the Leeds GP Confederation. The success applicant will provide all aspects of professional leadership to all members of the pharmacy team. This role will support the assurance of quality and prioritise patient safety. Engagement and close working with the wider Leeds GP Confederation teams will be an essential aspect of this role ensuring quality, safe, evidence-based and cost effective services are provided. Additional aspects of this role will be to support the Leeds GP Confederation in other aspects of service development where services are being discussed and developed.
This post will require enthusiasm, self-motivation and commitment to forge excellent communication between primary/PCN, community and secondary care teams and drive the work of the Leeds GP Confederation forward. The lead pharmacist will provide leadership, support and line management functions where required.
Main duties of the job
Key Relationships
Actively works towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and out with the organisation.
Fosters and maintains strong links with all services across the Leeds Health and Care Partnership.
Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
Uses negotiation and influencing skills to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders.
About us
The Leeds GP Confederation has three purposes:
Supporting practice resilience and PCN developmentWe provide expert resource for individual practices in the city to remain viable and resilient, as well as supporting the collective development of primary care networks. Our data, tools, facilitation, and guidance all help you maximise your impact. Being a voice for primary care in LeedsLeeds GP Confederation acts as a single, unified voice for general practice across Leeds. We do this by firstly gathering and representing local general practice views. Secondly, we provide a range of ways for practices and PCNs to contribute to priorities in the Leeds place-based partnership arrangements. Delivering services & initiatives Finally, we host at-scale NHS contracts and deliver training and education programmes. Our wealth of experience working with local partners and delivering high quality services means we can provide practices with additional patient access. In turn, this makes better use of NHS resources and means we can reinvest any profits back into local general practice.For further information, please go to:www.leedsgpconfederation.org.uk
Job description Job responsibilities
Core Functions
To lead and coordinate the Leeds GP Confederations medicines management processes relevant to all delivered and developing services.
To professionally lead the pharmacy workforce working within Leeds GP Confederation services.
To enable improved quality of care, personalised care and patient experience.
To ensure appropriate processes and governance is embedded and adequate to keep patients, colleagues and the organisation safe
To provide clinical leadership to ensure high quality and cost effective care.
Work autonomously yet collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
To analyse and interpret complex information and communicate this information using a variety of methods to patients, carers and other health professionals to promote a safe and high quality service.
To provide specialised advice and support in risk management, clinical governance issues and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and regulatory frameworks and other established good practices to manage and minimise risk.
To maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with evidence and best practice, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process.
Escalate concerns and risks, whilst also sharing learning and supporting colleagues to improve service quality, efficiency and safety.
Act as the organisational lead for nonmedical prescribing, providing strategic oversight, clinical governance, and expert advice to ensure safe, effective, and compliant prescribing practice across services.
Lead the assurance of controlled drugs, including policy development, audit, incident management and regulatory compliance, ensuring safe and effective prescribing and use in line with legislation and national guidance.
Management and Leadership Responsibilities
Line management and leadership of colleagues as required, setting direction, objectives, ensuring all team members have clarity of roles and responsibilities. Dealing with all employee/worker relation issues for direct reports e.g. disciplinary, grievance, sickness, appraisal.
Support for the wider team to help support high quality clinical care
Liaises with PCNs, GPs, managers and other external stakeholders to support the work of the Leeds GP Confederations services and colleagues.
Planning and Organisational Responsibilities
Produce timely reports and papers, using relevant appropriate IT packages where required. This should be carried out to agreed criteria and plans developed for correcting mitigating circumstances if targets not achieved.
To lead and develop pharmacy related quality improvement work.
To plan and organise own workload, including project work and support for members of the Confeds team, multidisciplinary team (MDT), PCN, practice team, Local Care Partnerships, patients, carers, etc within their scope of practice.
To attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance
To deputise for Senior members of the team, as appropriate.
Managing Resources Responsibilities
Ensures the effective and efficient use of resources within their own sphere of responsibility.
To work to ensure best value for money within services delivered and being developed.
Standard Paragraphs
It is the responsibility of each member of staff to maintain confidentiality at all times.
Staff must be aware of and adhere to the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act and to ensure their own safety and the safety of colleagues and patients.
Individuals must ensure the statutory and mandatory training requirements that are relevant to the post are completed within agreed timeframes
Staff should be aware of their individual responsibilities under the Equal Opportunities Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy.
Manages Self
Maintains the highest standards of conduct and integrity within organisation adhering to relevant Codes of Conduct.
Participate in the organisations appraisal system, matching organisational aims with individual objectives.
Takes responsibility for own and others health and safety in the working environment.
Complies with all organisational and statutory requirements.
Ensures that a professional service and image is maintained at all times.
Leads in line with agreed values.
Equality & Diversity
Able to adjust communication effectively to meet the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders
Well-developed understanding of equality, diversity and human rights issues and an ability to communicate these clearly to a broad range of stakeholders
Actively delivers projects that address inequality and/or improve equality outcomes for stakeholders and /or workforce.
This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It may be subject to change in the light of developing organisational and service needs and wherever possible change will follow consultation with the post holder.
Safeguarding Children
Under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 all NHS staff must ensure that their functions are discharged with regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
All staff need to ensure, as part of their work with children and families and with adults who are parents or carers who are experiencing personal problems, that the needs of the children are considered and that where necessary they are assessed and appropriate referrals are made.
It is incumbent on all staff to ensure that they undertake safeguarding children training in line with organisational policy and in line with agreed current/latest guidance.
Safeguarding Adults
All staff must comply with mandatory training requirements and ensure that adult safeguarding is embedded as an essential part of their daily practice. Safeguarding is everyones business and staff within the organisation have a particular responsibility to ensure all safeguarding concerns are responded to effectively and efficiently in accordance with the local Safeguarding Adults Board Policy and Procedure.
Person Specification
Skills / Competencies Essential
Practical & Intellectual Skills. Able to think conceptually; recognising assumptions, interpreting and evaluating arguments and deducing inferences. Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions. Able to think on their feet when dealing with issues and problems Computer literate with an ability to use the required systems/office packages. Able to analyse and interpret data to draw conclusions. Able to effectively manage resources (financial and others) to ensure delivery of a service/project. Able to provide, receive, convey and present information in a clear way. Able to plan complex medicines management projects and programmes. Ability to work to deadlines. Training- Evidence of significant personal development, professionally and managerially. Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work. Has a responsive, solution focused approach to addressing issues and barriers. Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a stakeholder focused response. Able to build and sustain relationships, actively involving stakeholders where appropriate. Able to regulate behaviour even when provoked. Is open and honest and acts with integrity. Able to work both independently where required and as a team and corporate player. Is open to change and possible alternatives to doing things differently. Credible, trustworthy and able to inspire confidence in others. Enthusiastic about area of work and achieving results Conscientious; able and keen to deliver best possible quality at all times. Able to manage conflict in order to bring about positive outcomes. Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a stakeholder focussed response. Independently mobile in order to be able to work across a number of sites and travel to meet with stakeholders. Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments if required.
Desirable
Knowledge of ePACT data and analysis
Experience Essential
Evidence of ongoing professional development. Evidence of significant personal development, professionally and managerially. Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with external agencies/stakeholder. Understanding and knowledge of the workings of the NHS, the challenges it faces and of the reform agenda. Experience of working in the NHS. Up to date clinical knowledge. Ability to work to deadlines. Able to work as part of a team and also independently. Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information. Able to provide and receive highly complex/contentious optimisation/therapeutic information to a multi-professional audience. Experience of leading and managing staff.
Desirable
Knowledge and experience of programme and/or project management. Experience of working in GP practices and with GP computer systems (Systmone and Emis). Experience of using performance management/improvement systems.
Qualifications Essential
Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) + 1 year pre-registration training. Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training. Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council. Registered non-medical prescriber.
Desirable
Post graduate Clinical Diploma
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 Leeds GP Confederation
Address Leeds GP Confederation, Building 3 White Rose Office Park
Millshaw Park Lane
Leeds
LS11 0DL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.leedsgpconfederation.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)