PCN Clinical Pharmacist/ACP Pharmacist – Dartford Model PCN
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to join Dartford Model Primary Care Network as part of their growing multi-disciplinary team. We pride ourselves on providing excellent patient centred care and wish to expand our pharmacy team to deliver high quality pharmacy services across our network.
Working in our established pharmacy team, alongside our three clinical pharmacists, senior pharmacy technician and trainee pharmacy technicians, the successful candidate will focus on ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes with general practice and Care Homes.
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the PCN. The clinical pharmacy in general practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy professionals within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice. This is an exciting time to be involved in general practice and to be part of shaping primary care for the future.
Ideally, you will be a clinical pharmacist with a minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience and have worked within a GP practice or PCN. A prescribing qualification is highly desirable and we would be interested in taking on someone who is currently undertaking or has completed their ACP training. You must be registered with the GPhC and have completed or be willing to enrol on the General Practice Training Pathway via CPPE. Salary will be dependent on skills and experience.
The role will be based across our 3 GP practices in Dartford Model PCN. You will participate in a rota working across the practices, with dedicated time for patient encounters, clinical administration, audit and PCN wide quality improvement initiatives.
The practices and pharmacy team are actively involved in training and development of healthcare staff including pharmacy technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, GP trainees, paramedic practitioners and physician associates. An interest in training and development would be an advantage.
Dartford MODEL PCN covers around 32,000 patients registered with Wellcome Practice, Dr Shimmins and partners (Dartford East) and Lowfield Medical Centre. Primary Care Networks (PCN) are groups of GP practices working closely together with other primary and community care staff and healthcare organisations to provide integrated services to their local populations. They work collectively to understand the health needs of their population and to deliver improvements to the quality of care in provided in primary care, care outside of hospital and across the PCNs.
