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You will undertake a clinical pharmacy role within North Derbyshire PCN practices. This will involve a wide variety of tasks that will allow enthusiastic individuals the opportunity to develop their skills. The role will involve independent prescribing and as a PCN role structured medication reviews.
You will also be expected to undertake a senor role within the team in the provision of medicines governance advice or education and training needs., 1. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address the public health and social needs of patients within ND PCN member practices
2. Provide expertise in clinical Structured Medication Reviews (SMR's) and address the public health and social needs of patients within ND PCN member practices
3. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need following discharge
4. Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
5. Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals
6. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
7. Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
8. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
9. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
10. Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
11. Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions
12. Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
13. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
14. Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks
15. Working within the practice-based team across the ND PCN member practices to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as
+ Frail elderly
+ Problematic polypharmacy
+ Renal impairment
+ Hepatic impairment
+ Substance misuse
+ Patients on high-risk medicines
+ STOPP/START identified patients
+ Revolving door Hospital admissions
16. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the ND PCN Member Practice's
17. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
18. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence
19. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
20. Reduce problematic polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
21. To work alongside Primary Care colleagues supporting vaccination programme
22. To support patients in managing long term health conditions such as:
+ Metabolic
+ Lipids
+ CVD including Hypertension
+ Respiratory Conditions
+ Diabetes
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
COVID19 Vaccination
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
UK Points-based immigration system
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on and we will be happy to provide assistance.
Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.
This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and enthusiastic pharmacists to join our friendly and forward-thinking team based within the Royal Primary Care Chesterfield / North Derbyshire PCN. We are seeking pharmacists who are highly motivated, innovative, and keen to develop clinical skills as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Applications from pharmacists with experience in primary care are welcomed especially form those who have completed the CPPE pathway training (although this is not essential).
This role is purely base in primary care but as a part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, RPC is uniquely placed to develop strong links between primary and secondary care pharmacy roles.

Royal Primary Care is the leading at scale provider or primary care services in the Midlands. Rated as outstanding by the CQC and providing an award-winning range of primary care services in North Derbyshire. Working collaboratively with a range of System providers and being credited with bringing Derbyshire County population health metrics above the national average.
Recognised for innovation and digital reach Royal Primary Care is the flagship for the substantive primary care model aligned to an acute hospital Trust, influencing national policy on alternative primary care models.