Senior Clinical Pharmacist

NHS • Lyndon, KY, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 2h ago

Are you a Pharmacist looking to join a forward thinking Primary Care Network?

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 clinical pharmacist to join our expanding Medicines Management Team. 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. This will be done through various patient facing and non-patient facing clinics.

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.

In addition to an induction programme and training, further training will be provided if not already completed, through the CPPE training pathway to develop the successful applicants further. After which support is provided for personal continued professional development, which is strongly encouraged.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails

Person Specification

Experience

Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate

Qualifications

Independent prescriber or willing to work towards
Completed or willing to enrol on to start 18-month training pathway (e.g. Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes).

Communication/Verbal Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety

Knowledge

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.
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.

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.

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