Clinical Pharmacist- Dashwood Primary Care Network
Salary: In the range of £41,000 up to £45,000 WTE dependant on experience
Base: Cressex Health Centre, HP12 3PP
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
Dashwood pharmacy team is growing and we have an exciting opportunity for another Clinical Pharmacist to join us.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone enthusiastic about providing high quality care to our patients and becoming an integral part of our growing clinical pharmacy team.
The Clinical Pharmacist will be a patient-facing role with plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care, and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role.
The post holder will benefit from:
* Regular supervision from a senior pharmacist
* Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
* Support to enrol in and complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
* Progressing to achieving their independent prescribing qualification
* Being part of a friendly and forward thinking PCN team.
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
* Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
* Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
* Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
* Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackle inequalities.
* Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
* Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, and community pharmacists.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
* Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist
* Effective interpersonal, communication (both written and oral) presentation and influencing skills
* Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
* Ability to communicate medicines and service-related information to decision makers at all levels
* Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation for long periods
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines, often with frequent interruptions and urgent requests
* Ability to motivate people and facilitate change
* Ability to define, collate, analyse and interpret data
* Able to utilise databases and information technology, including word processing, spreadsheets and presentation packages effectively
* Ability to communicate information to patients and carers in an appropriate manner, using well developed empathy skills
Qualifications
* Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
* Registered with GPhC
* Member of RPS
Experience
* Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (eg clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent
* Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
* At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting
* Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling
* Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work
* Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
* Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
* Experience in undertaking clinical audit
* Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
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.
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