About this role
Job summary
**Applicants must be an independent Prescriber and completedan approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)
Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supporting the delivery of the Network Contract DES Service specifications. These roles are critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes in practices, care homes and domiciliary settings.
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based on the Job Description and Person Specification. Please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.
*Please Note: the PCN is unable to sponsor any overseas applications; please only apply if you are legally able to work in the UK.
*Please also note: SWAGGA PCN Ltd strives to align with Agenda For Change and its principles where possible. It is not contractually bound by Agenda For Change and its terms and conditions
Main duties of the job
The primary responsibilities of the role are to:
1. Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.
2. Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.
3. Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.
4. Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified patient cohort.
6. Provide care home SMR reviews
7. Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to help nurture a robust team.
8. The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK Drivers Licence is therefore essential.
About us
SWAGGA Primary Care Network is a collaboration of 15 GP Practices geographically aligned and working together to improve patient care. SWAGGA PCN has a weighted patient population of approximately 100,000 patients. It is an extensive Network with a diverse population and patient needs.
Our Network Team work across these practices, aiming to improve our patient's well-being and address health inequalities in South Liverpool.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Description:
Please note: the PCN is unable to sponsor any overseas applications, please only apply if you are legally able to work in the UK.
Job Summary
Our current Clinical Pharmacists play a key role in supporting delivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications. These roles are critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes in practices, care homes and domiciliary settings.
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based on the Job Description and Person Specification, therefore do ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet the requirements.
***Previous applicants need not apply***
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for supporting SWAGGA Member Practices in implementing the NHS 10 Year Plan which includes effective medicine management, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating, streamlining and managing change and reducing duplication across the Network.
About us
SWAGGA are a network developing at pace and are now in a position to recruit further Clinical Pharmacists to shape and drive therapeutical and pharmaceutical decisions and needs. The network has strong foundations and we want SWAGGA to be a network that delivers good quality prescription and financial management and be a leader in providing joined up, integrated clinical care to its patients, supporting our practices to thrive. SWAGGA is a large network, with a population of approximately 100,000 patients, covering 15 practices.
Job responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of the role are to:
1. Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts.
2. Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets.
3. Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of the national medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or the need for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, always meeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team.
4. Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust.
5. Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified patient cohort.
6. Provide care home SMR reviews
7. Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to help nurture a robust team.
8. All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team and in line with the NMP Policy.
9. The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK Drivers Licence is therefore essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Applicant must be an Independent Prescriber Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification Completed an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH) Significant relevant and ongoing CPD Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex developments Primary Care Experience
Desirable
* Experience of in depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare * Creativity to develop a vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN and the ability to promote this to the PCN MDT and member practices * An understanding of national and local strategic and operational priorities for medicines optimisation and the NHS in line with identified best practice * Ability to identify issues / gaps in safe and optimal medicines use and to write clear, concise action plans to address these * Expert clinical knowledge and skills with advanced levels of clinical reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems and act on highly complex information
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 SWAGGA PCN Limited
Address South Liverpool Treatment Centre
32 Church Road
Garston
Merseyside
L19 2LW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.swaggapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)