Integrated Primary Care Network Pharmacist

Apprenticeship Eligibility Criteria

Should this vacancy be recruited as an apprenticeship, the following criteria will apply:

UK nationals or other persons with a right of abode have an eligible residency status if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship.

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Job overview

Do you enjoy working with people, dealing with a variety of challenges plus delivering actual benefits to make a true difference? This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Pharmacist to join our Integrated Pharmacy workforce providing a service to a number of our PCNs within Wirral.

Each PCN is a group of GP practices working together to provide joined up services to support their patients to live happier, healthier lives. You will join an experienced and dynamic team that includes GPs, Nurses, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers & Physiotherapists to provide clinical pharmacy services to our local population.

You will be supported to complete the CPPE pathway.

Main duties of the job

You will support these PCNs with the delivery of safe, effective systems for medicines optimisation, reducing waste and maximising patient outcomes through structured medication review.

You will contribute to new ways of working and using the skills that your role can bring to evolving PCN services.

You will be responsible for promoting good practice in line with clinical and operational guidelines and will clinically support the pharmacy technicians with medicines reconciliation post discharge and other medicines projects.

On a day-to-day basis you will spend time within the PCN hubs and in GP practices to answer clinical queries from patients, local GPs and clinicians, trusts and other services such as care homes. You will be supported to build strong relationships with community pharmacy and trust pharmacy colleagues.

Ultimately your role will be to support our patients to help them get the most out of their medicines and to play an active part in their own healthcare decisions.

Working for our organisation

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Whilst this is an integrated post we welcome applications from candidates with a Community/Primary Care background who would like to work solely in Primary Care.

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Integrated Primary Care Network Pharmacist position available at WUTH.

Person specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

• Vocational Master Degree in Pharmacy plus 1 year pre-registration experience
• Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification or equivalent vocational experience
• Post registration clinical experience in a relevant area of practice
• Significant relevant and ongoing CPD

• Independent Prescriber

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of the wider determinates of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
• Good motivational skills and the ability to positively promote change in a complex healthcare environment
• Excellent written communication skills
• Produce timely and informative reports
• High degree of computer literacy including database searching and manipulation of spreadsheets

Personal Attributes

• Methodical with attention to detail

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• High degree of personal integrity
• Self-motivated, innovative thinker, inspire others
• Reliable, conscientious and supportive
• Able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Able to cope well with a busy environment and deal with frequent interruptions and changes in daily routine
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines to complete work
• Evidence of personal insight and sound judgement
• Have empathy with and be sensitive to patients’ needs

• Demonstrates ability to remain positive in the face of adversity and criticism
• Demonstrates the ability to review decisions made in the light of new information

Knowledge and Skills

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• Ability to articulate and sell the vision for medicines optimisation within the PCN to the MDT.
• An appreciation of the nature of General Practice and of Primary Care, including the concept of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Be able to effectively improve and evaluate service quality
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identified deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to senior or GPs when appropriate
• Ability to prioritise and achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines to achieve targets
• Identify own training needs
• Promotion and evaluation of best practice

• Able to plan, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence / motivate / persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations where there may be significant barriers
• Confidence to present cases to large and senior audiences whilst maintaining a clear message
• Demonstrates ability to identify and recommend change service delivery in response to audit results

Other Requirements

• Ability to work weekends and evenings as per rota

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

• Experience of multidisciplinary working to deliver a range of complex development

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Please note; that if you are offered a position, your personal details will automatically be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR).

The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum amount of applications from which to make a shortlist. To prevent this happening please complete and submit your application without delay.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing a DBS application is met by the successful applicant/s. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following starting in post.

This will be deducted from your salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.

The Trust would encourage all post holders who require a DBS for their role to registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service.

The Department of Health and Social Care has released a new publication to support overseas candidates looking to work in health and care in the UK.

The new guidance provides information on the recruitment process that candidates should expect when applying for work in the UK. Please follow the below link:

New guidance for overseas applicants | NHS Employers

All Trust staff must be familiar with, and adhere to these procedures. It is the post holders responsibility to attended the Trusts mandatory training Protecting Vulnerable People training, and to follow the relevant Trusts polices and practice guidance.