Sheepcot Medical Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time or part-time basis. The main responsibilities of the role include; Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas. Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage). Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice. Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement. Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes. Processing specialist treatment letters. Processing hospital medication discharge letters. Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries. Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change. Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework. Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with. Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication. Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care. Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists. Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision. Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates. Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues. About the Candidate You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications: Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this. Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this. Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice. Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas. Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions. Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals. Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate. Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct. Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance. Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable. Self-motivated with excellent communication skills. Understand the need for patient confidentiality. About Us Sheepcot Medical Centre is a very busy GP Practice looking after around 11,000 patients. Our patient care comes first in everything we do and we value the contribution of each team member and are proud to of built a mutually supportive environment. We are a training practice and have affiliations with Kings College, Imperial and Brunel University and also St Georges University in Grenada. We encourage the continuous education and professional development of our practice team, always looking for new ways of improving our services and skill sets to ensure smarter working and embracing new technologies that will better our services. We are made up of 3 GP Partners, 4 Salaried GP's, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 HCA's, Management team, Admin and Reception staff and as part of North Watford PCN we share a GP, Paramedic, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 3 First Contact Physios, Mental Health Worker, Social Prescriber, PCN Manager and Digital Transformation Lead. Disclosure and Barring Service Check Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.