Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist - Haywards Heath Central PCN

Haywards Heath Central PCN are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to work at Newtons Practice. The post holder will report to the GP Clinical Lead within the PCN for clinical supervision. They will also have strong working relationships with the Practice Managers and other clinicians in the network.

ABC will provide consistent employment support throughout the appointment.

As part of clinical duties, the successful candidates will join the multi-disciplinary staff in providing comprehensive care and will work with patients, carers, and families.

ABC as employer will provide support and ensure access to the NHSE England training programme as well as a local network of Clinical Pharmacists working in general practice.

This post is part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care Networks funded by NHS England and includes funded access to the Clinical Pharmacist Training Pathway for any further modules required to complete the pathway.

The post holder is a Pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a pharmacist team in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a GP Clinical Lead who will develop, manage and mentor them.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice(s).

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services and contribute to the delivery of the local medicines optimisation strategy.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber (if not already a prescriber).

Alliance for Better Care CIC is a GP Federation that unites 47 NHS GP practices across 12 Primary Care Networks in Sussex and Surrey. We support our Primary Care colleagues as well as their patients, to transform how healthcare is managed within the community. As a membership organisation, our focus is to work in partnership with our members and help them to improve the provision of General Practices in the local area. We work with and listen to our GP Practices, PCNs, Hospitals, Community Organisations and the Third Sector. These vital partnerships ensure that, together, we deliver a truly integrated approach that offers the support and expertise needed to effectively serve our communities.

Haywards Heath Central PCN is a NHS Collaboration between two GP Practices Dolphins Practice and Newtons Practice - working together to provide enhanced access services.

Our surgery teams work closely, sharing expertise and resources to develop new services. Our vision is to continue to improve the quality of care that we provide in alignment with the needs of our patient population.

Our PCN builds on the existing primary care services and enables a greater provision of proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care. We are supported by practitioners in additional roles who allow us to create bespoke multi-disciplinary teams based on the needs of our local population.

£41,351.78 to £48,450.20 a year depending on experience, pro rata