Overview
The De Parys Group 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 basis, working 37.5 hours per week on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
Responsibilities
* 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.
* Supporting practice dispensary.
* Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
* Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training.
* 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.
* Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
* Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
About the practice & Benefits
The De Parys Group’s priority is to provide the highest standard of clinical care to the 38,000 patients registered with the practice. We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home. We embrace a continuous improvement ethos and strive to ensure that we are available to patients when they need a consultation. We have a strong training ethos within the practice with a team of medical and non-medical educators as well as opportunities for non-clinical staff to develop and progress.
* NHS pension scheme.
* Proper pay and Living Wage Foundation accredited.
* Eye-care vouchers.
* Annual leave: minimum 28 days FTE, with enhancements for long service.
* Paid breaks
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