About the Role
Chelmsford West PCN are seeking a full-time, qualified pharmacist to join their team at Chelmer Medical Partnership to work across their three surgeries, Tennyson House, Humber Road and Melbourne House.
The post holder will act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside the practice multidisciplinary teams in a patient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients.
Other responsibilities will include:
* Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
* Assist with repeat prescriptions.
* Deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
* Provide expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices.
* Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and will manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The role is pivotal to improving quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Ideally the post holder will be a non-medical prescriber; if this is not the case the post holder will be supported to develop their role to achieve this.
About the Candidate
You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:
* Pharmacy Degree and significant post graduate experience.
* Independent Prescriber status.
* Excellent clinical and medication knowledge.
* Understanding and experience of working as a pharmacist in primary care.
* Experience of undertaking medication reviews.
* The commitment to continue to learn and develop.
* Excellent inter-personal patient facing communication skills.
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
About Us
Chelmsford West Primary Care Network (PCN) is a group of 2 GP practices, working across 4 sites. The aim of Chelmsford West PCN is to offer patient-centred healthcare through the commitment to bringing together GP practices so that they can work, more effectively, with others. There is strong evidence that health outcomes are socially determined and that the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and grow old influence their health. We enjoy multidisciplinary teamworking and the opportunities that collaborative working in a PCN provides.
We can offer 6 weeks' annual leave (pro-rata if part-time) and NHS pension.
You can find out more about our PCN at our website: www.chelmsfordwestpcn.nhs.uk
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.
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