We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and motivated Pharmacist to join the team and are seeking someone who ideally has previous experience of working in general practice, or alternatively experience of working in hospital, primary care, community or mental health pharmacy settings for at least 2 years post-qualification, to work with our existing pharmacist to develop and lead medicines optimisation services within our practice.
The successful candidate will have a patient facing role in managing long-term conditions; working directly with patients to assess and treat conditions, as well as promote self-care. You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience of influencing others and conducting clinical medication reviews.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with clinical support to perform face to face and telephone reviews to optimise medicines for patients with polypharmacy. You will manage the practice repeat prescription process, provide medicines information advice, perform medicines reconciliation upon transfer of care between settings and promote systems for safer prescribing. The successful candidate will also contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit.
The applicant will be registered with the GPhC, ideally have a post-graduate clinical diploma and be an independent prescriber.
Candidates must have strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to work effectively under pressure.
The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:
1. To assist in the medicines related workload with prescribing colleagues.
2. Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
3. Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
4. Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
They should support the following clinical work:
1. Clinical Medication Review
2. Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
3. Use appropriate provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System
4. Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
They should also support the following practice development work:
Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting clerical staff)
We offer excellent terms and conditions including annual leave of between 27-33 days per year plus Bank Holidays pending continuous NHS service, free onsite parking, uniform, access to ongoing training and development.
The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:
1. To assist in the medicines related workload with prescribing colleagues.
2. Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
3. Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
4. Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
They should support the following clinical work:
1. Clinical Medication Review
2. Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
3. Use appropriate provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System
4. Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
They should also support the following practice development work:
Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting clerical staff)
We offer excellent terms and conditions including annual leave of between 27-33 days per year plus Bank Holidays pending continuous NHS service, free onsite parking, uniform, access to ongoing training and development.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Sandy Lane Surgery
Sandy Lane
Leyland
PR25 2EB
https://www.sandylanesurgery.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)