The post holder is a clinical pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside the pharmacy team in general practice.
They will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines and expertise including face-to-face contact with patients.
Main duties of the job
Duties include:
1. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
2. Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
3. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities.
About us
Chilcote Surgery is a well-established, forward-thinking General Practice operating from two sites in the seaside town of Torquay. Despite the challenges facing primary care, the practice has continued to thrive and currently employs a team of 16 GPs. Widely respected for our collaborative working, training, teaching, and diversification, we embrace change and new technologies whilst maintaining the traditional model of offering a named GP for each of our patients.
We encourage talented individuals to thrive and make a difference, and an exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to play a pivotal role in leading the practice going forward.
Job responsibilities
Please review the full Job Description and Person specification in the supporting documents section of the advert.
Person Specification
Skills
* Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters.
* Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.
* Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS.
Qualifications
* GPhC registered pharmacist.
Experience
* Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* Broad knowledge of general practice.
* Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
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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