Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities About the role

Support Head Office with core functions such as: administrative and recruitment support.

Maintain a safe clinical rota and supporting staff logistics. Work with admin to discuss rotas, cover, illness, HR emails from pharmacists and support. Work with recruitment when necessary to support the recruitment and retention of staff. Partake in interviewing. Support the Trainee Technicians with their workload - meet with them, deliver required training, track their progress, feedback on their work. Write, approve and review documents, policies, protocols. Attend and engage at the Senior weekly meetings and progress actions assigned to yourself for completion in a timely manner.

Deliver training:

To ensure staff are competent to deliver work within their boundary. Develop training guides, SOPs, policies to support their work. Signposting pharmacists needing additional training to resources (MORPh, CPPE, RPS, other). Research resources to signpost to (for clinicians and patients). Perform staff monthly 1-2-1s, review ongoing competency using the competency framework and complete annual appraisals. Observing CPPE work, giving feedback and liaising with their clinical supervisor or CPPE tutor as required.

Support The Team:

Check all Pharmacists have appropriate workload and ledgers. Conduct quality assurance reviews of consultations and provide constructive feedback & set out a learning and development plan. Support Pharmacists with clinical queries when needed. Support with clinical sessions, where required. Working with team to provide progress reviews of PCN work streams. Ensure pharmacists are always working within their clinical competency and are achieving a holistic approach when consulting with patients. Make sure pharmacists show knowledge about and adhere to the following processes: Ensuring teams are working to a high clinical standard with their consults through supervision, feedback and creating development plans. Understanding and experience of conducting long term condition reviews, complex medication reviews and daily practice work streams such as medicines reconciliation and medication queries. With a consideration of how to improve these processes for practices. Assist & manage the practices & PCNs local incentive scheme and QOF medication-related requirements to ensure they meet the target. Auditing practice’s work streams and identify areas for medication related improvement and safety. Implement local and national guidelines and formula recommendations.

Support the company’s Clinical Governance agenda

Medicines safety. Risk management. Responding to feedback from Practices e.g. complaints/ investigations, significant events. Ensuring compliance with CQC standards where medicines management/optimization is involved. Tracking completion and maintenance of mandatory training requirement. Supporting activities to complete re validation and maintain registration as a registered pharmacist with the GPhC.

Benefits for employees:

GPhC fees and DBS Applications paid 5 weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays (Pro rata as and when required) Sick pay (within company policy) Health & wellbeing program with the following free services, confidential counselling, digital gym, high street stores discounts An established network of over 200 pharmacists nationally and dedicated senior pharmacist support available Company equipment e.g. laptop / smart card reader Flexibility Pension scheme

The Pharmacist Network are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce, and welcome applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Join our team of dedicated healthcare professionals and make a difference in patient care through your expertise as a Clinical Pharmacist. If this role is suitable for you, please apply today. We look forward to receiving your application!