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Pharmacy Clinical Advisor
| Posting date: | 20 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2024 |
| Location: | Arnold, NG5 6DA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D9111-24-0016 |
Summary
Clinical and Corporate Governance Contribute to the management of clinical, financial and corporate risks and patient safety issues relating to medicines use. Implement the management of appropriate strategies for clinical governance and controls assurance for community pharmacy functions in collaboration with other directorates, partners, and local stakeholders. Advise on medicines related safety and governance liaising with clinicians, managers, multidisciplinary teams, executive leads, and appropriate external agencies and networks as required. Co-operate with community pharmacy investigations, support follow up of remedial action and that lessons learned are captured and disseminated locally. Provide highly specialised advice on medicines use and prescribing to improve patient care and outcomes. This includes advice to investigations into Community Pharmacies, GPs, other non-medical prescribers, health and social care staff. Support community pharmacy research, development projects and best practice. Support the delivery of emergency and winter resilience plans. Establish effective working relationships with practice staff including non-medical prescribers and community pharmacists in order to influence their prescribing behaviour and deliver the community pharmacy agenda. Specialist area Provide expert specialist professional pharmaceutical advice, support and input to the appropriate commissioning processes, service and pathway development and reviews, service improvement and transformation work programmes relating to community pharmacy, enabling safe, affordable and appropriate use of medicines within the allocated resources and in line with the local vision and strategy. Support the Associate Medical Director (Pharmacy) in ensuring the monitoring and performance management of community pharmacy contracts and service level agreements for services commissioned by ICBs. Develop and implement systems and processes to identify, monitor, challenge and address unwarranted clinical variation in medicines optimisation and/or prescribing practice such as using prescribing indicators and benchmarking data. Responsible for information management such as the retrieval, analysis and interpretation of community pharmacy data to ensure appropriate planning, monitoring and review of community pharmacy services. Work with ICB specialist pharmacists and leads, Finance, Specialised Commissioning and the acute trusts to support the development of robust contractual and pharmaceutical arrangements to ensure cost effective, value for money and facilitate early identification and mitigation of areas of concern regarding funding. Service Redesign, Innovation and Continual Improvement Identify, review and assess opportunities and threats of new and innovative models of care and service delivery, aligning these to the organisational strategy. Responsible, as applicable to designated lead area, for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact services and specialist area. Ensure patient and public involvement within the community pharmacy agenda by working directly with patients, carers and patient support groups. Staffing Support the Associate Medical Director (Pharmacy) with workforce planning, recruitment, development, management, training and work distribution Line management of staff, including conducting their annual appraisals with regular review of development plans throughout the year to assess progress. Manage the delivery of teaching and development interventions Fulfil own mandatory continual professional development (CPD) in line with recommendations from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and personal development plan (PDP) in line with Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB appraisal system. Regularly update knowledge, self-direct learning and attend relevant courses where necessary.