Recruitment

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£46,148 to £48,526 a year (FTE – depending on experience)

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number
A2887-24-0016

Closing Date
Closing date is 13th October 2024

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well developed and vibrant Primary Care Network Pharmacy Team. As a teaching PCN we also have trainee pharmacists working and learning alongside our own team. We are seeking to recruit passionate and focussed individuals who have a desire to learn and grow within a fast paced visionary organisation.

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Main duties of the job

The main priority for our PCN Pharmacy team is to alleviate daily pressure on the GP surgeries for which we provide clinical services

Please see the uploaded Job Description for details

About us

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system. PCNs were formally ratified in July 2019

West Leeds Primary Care Network (WLPCN Ltd) is a large PCN with a patient list of circa 70,000 patients around the Pudsey / Bramley area. We have a significant workforce in place which brings wonderful opportunities for in-house multi-disciplinary team working. In addition to our Pharmacy Team, we have Occupational Therapists, Social Prescribers, Paramedics, Dietitians, a range of nursing / HCA staff and more which means that the majority of any patient’s needs can now be provided on their own doorstep

Primary Care Networks will be required to deliver on seven national service specifications, with which our pharmacists will play a key role:

• Structured Medication Reviews and Optimisation
• Enhanced Health in Care Homes Service
• Anticipatory Care
• Personalised Care
• Supporting Early Cancer Diagnosis
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Diagnosis
• Tackling Inequalities Locally

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:

Management of long-term conditions

To support the care homes within the PCN with structured medication reviews

To work with colleagues to establish and develop good medicines management systems across the care homes sector

To assist the PCN care homes team and wider MDT with care home-related medication queries

Liaise with care home staff as necessary to ensure accurate exchange of information and clarification of medication queries

Work effectively within the PCN Pharmacy and Care Home Teams across all practices within the PCN

To establish and improve professional standards of care in the management of residents within the care homes by developing relationships with key stakeholders

Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.

Action acute prescription requests

Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients

Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes.

Undertaking clinical audit

Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial)

This list is not exhaustive and additional duties may be decided by the PCN Leadership Team and the Senior Clinical Pharmacist.

The post holder will be supported by existing pharmacists employed within the PCN and a clinical mentor.

The post holder will be required to enrol on the General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE (unless an equivalent qualification is already held and exemption is agreed by CPPE) and will also be required to enrol on a prescribing course if a non-medical prescribing qualification if not already held.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please see uploaded full job description document

Desirable

• Please see uploaded full job description document

Qualifications

Essential

• Please see uploaded full job description document

Desirable

• Please see uploaded full job description document

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.44 an hour to start

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time

Reference number
A2887-24-0018

Job locations

Glenlea Surgery

703 Leeds & Bradford Road

Stanningley

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 6PE

Closing Date
Closing date is 13th October 2024

Job summary

West Leeds PCN is a dynamic and visionary Primary Care Network with a patient population of approximately 68,000 across 6 GP practices. We aim to provide high quality and diverse clinical services across these GP surgeries, adhering to principles of best practice, promoting equal opportunities and working positively with diversity.

We currently have a specialised team of three within our newly created Booking Services team but we need another part time member of staff to join the team to boost capacity as the workload picks up. You will find more details in the uploaded job specification

Main duties of the job

Contacting patients in a calm, empathic and professional way via various means (telephone, letter, e mail or SMS etc) to book them into clinics or to remind them about upcoming appointments.

Answering the phone to patients to book them into the appropriate PCN clinic/s. This will require a good understanding of all of our services so that you can navigate to the right clinic.

Rearranging patient appointments promptly and sensitively in the case of unplanned clinical staff absences

Processing patient correspondence on SystmOne and entering the relevant clinical (SNOMED) codes

Data entry (for example covid vaccinations)

Assisting practices with their contractual obligations (ie QoF) in order to maximise practice income, for example running clinical reports, booking patients in for elements of healthcare and making sure they are coded thus afterwards.

Process e consult documents for our member practices promptly and efficiently

Cover sickness absence within our member practices, assisting front of house / on reception as needed (so car driver would be advantageous)

About us

West Leeds PCN currently employs almost 50 staff members across various clinical disciplines. We like to upskill and develop our staff where possible and this particular role would be joining a really pleasant existing team of Booking Services Co-ordinators. Our clinical teams are

Occupational Therapists

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

Dietitians

Paramedics

Health Care Assistants

Care Co-ordinators

Community Wellbeing Advisers (Social Prescribers)

Physician Associates

Advanced Clinical Practitioners

Associate Clinical Practitioners

Physiotherapists

Nursing staff

Health & Wellbeing Coaches

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see uploaded job specification document on NHS Jobs for full information. This will be a varied and interesting role for the right applicant, with scope to grow

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

Experience

Essential

• Customer service or patient facing background
• Conversant with Microsoft packages

Desirable

• Experience within a healthcare setting
• Driving licence and car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Competitive

Contract
Fixed term

Duration

5 months

Working pattern
Flexible working

Reference number
A2887-24-0017

Job locations

23 Robin Lane

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 7BR

Closing Date
Closing date is 13th October 2024

Job summary

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system.

West Leeds Primary Care Network (WLPCN Ltd) is a large PCN with a patient list of circa 70,000 patients around the Pudsey / Bramley area. We have a significant workforce in place which brings wonderful opportunities for in-house multi-disciplinary team working. We have a well developed multidisciplinary team including a Pharmacy Team, Occupational Therapists, Social Prescribers, Paramedics, Dietitians, a range of nursing / HCA staff and more which means that the majority of any patient’s needs can now be provided on their own doorstep.

Following the release of ARRS GP funding we are looking for newly qualified (within 2 years to Join West Leeds Primary Care Network on a fixed term salaried contact until 31 March 2025. We will consider applications for between 4 and 8 sessions with a start date as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to work across 6 practices (8 sites) supporting our practices through the winter period. All of our practices are rated good with CQC, 3 of which are training practices. We are a highly supportive PCN and the practices all work closely within the PCN, understanding the importance of a good work/life balance with an open-door ethos.

To undertake duties governed by the PMS & GMS contract and Objectives of Direct and Local Enhanced

Services including:

Face to face and telephone consultations

Patient Home visits and Nursing Home visits

Checking and signing repeat prescriptions

Administration – dealing with queries, patient test results, referral letters NHS/private, task, emails and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner

Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate

Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE

About us

All of our practices are rated good with CQC, 3 of which are training practices. We are a highly supportive PCN and the practices all work closely within the PCN, understanding the importance of a good work/life balance with an open-door ethos.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description on NHS Jobs, which is not exhaustive and can be negotiated with the successful applicant

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• Essential
• Newly qualified GP (within two years and not having had a substantive post) with full GMC registration and license to practice.
• Experience of working in a GP training practice using SystmOne

Desirable

• Please see the attached person Specification

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).