Clinical Pharmacist - Birmingham Division
Modality Partnership BirminghamDivision has a part time (24 hours) at Laurie Pike Health Centre and a full-time vacancy (37.5 hours) at Smethwick Medical Centre, for a Clinical Pharmacist. The postholder will be a high performing Clinical Pharmacist, providing expert pharmaceutical care to patients and playing a key role in optimising medicines and improving outcomes within primary care. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to making real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from
Alongside a competitive NHS package, we also offer development and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of your career:
Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
Employee discounts and benefits scheme
Employee assistance programme (EAP)
Education and career pathways
Enhanced Family-friendly policies
Wellbeing support and initiative
If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
Main duties of the job
The role is an all-rounded, hands-on Clinical Pharmacist role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as effective communication, ability to 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.
This is a varied, dynamic role that combines patient-facing work with system-wide projects. It requires flexibility, innovation, and commitment, with opportunities to shape services and drive real change in primary care.
Duties may include running long-term condition clinics, undertaking structured medication reviews, supporting prescribing quality initiatives, and working with GPs and other clinicians to improve patient pathways.
About us
We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.
All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE. We are also committed to supporting career progression, with opportunities to develop into advanced practice, leadership, or specialist clinical roles.
Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.
Job responsibilities
JobDescription
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whilst working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement. Duties will include:
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.
Pre-employment
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent
Skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Exceptional attention to detail.
* High-level customer service knowledge.
* Strong numerical and mathematical skills.
* Diplomacy, discretion and the ability to manage sensitive situations effectively.
* Good problem-solving ability.
* Strong leadership and management skills.
Personal Qualities
* Demonstrable commitment to Continuous Professional Development.
* Flexible approach to work.
* Effective verbal and written communication skills.
* Effective time management skills to balance work and education requirements.
* Team player.
Experience
* Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist. Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber. Preferably experience in a general practice setting.
Knowledge
* Strong Math and Science Skills.
* Detail-Oriented.
* Solid Understanding of and Respect for Prescription Drug Laws and Regulations.
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.
£25.31 to £27.38 an hour Depending on experience
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