We are looking to recruit to the post of Clinical Pharmacist, to work within our Primary Care Network multidisciplinary healthcare team.
This is a Practice Based Pharmacist role within a PCN based model.
The successful candidate will do all their hours in one practice, which is stable, high achieving, low staff turnover, and superbly run with lots of support available.
Main duties of the job
The role will include a variety of pre-planned, screened, differentiated work only (no acute illness or complex medical problems) and training given where needed. Examples of this work include but are not exhaustive:
* Medicines management signing the prescription
* Changing medications as per hospital letter instruction, dose change for lipids etc.
* Dealing with Out of Stock issues
* Reviewing long term health conditions
* Patient queries
* Structured Medication Reviews
* NHS Health Checks
* Work to meet targets simple appointments avoiding multiple complex problems
The post-holder will work with a diverse range of people from different cultural and social backgrounds. The ability to work confidently and effectively in a varied, and sometimes challenging environment is essential.
The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and be organised, patient, and empathetic. They will have experience of working in health, social care, or other support roles including direct contact with people, families, or carers.
About us
Bilston Family Practice is a small, friendly and supportive team made up of 2 GP partners, 1 salaried GP, nursing staff, first contact physiotherapist, and a small team of admin staff.
We have a very high staff satisfaction and retention rate and believe in providing a positive, supportive, and rewarding environment for all staff.
We are an EMIS practice with approx 4000 patients.
Work is all conducted from one site with staff parking available onsite.
More information about the practice can be found on our website www.bilstonfamilypractice.nhs.uk.
Job responsibilities
Job Scope
The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and care homes and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber.
This role will be a first point of contact for enhanced health in care homes and will facilitate referrals into a further supportive Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and onward referrals for further care.
The role involves you working very closely with the appointed clinical pharmacists as well as the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and a caseload of patients, including care home based patients within Unity Practices. The role is pivotal in ensuring all our patients receive the best possible care and service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills
* Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Full Driving License
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.
£40,000 to £50,000 a year Depending on experience
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