Rowhedge & University of Essex Medical Practice has an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist to join their growing team. The role is part- time, three days per week, Thursdays and Fridays. The main responsibilities of the role include: 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; Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes; Supporting practice dispensary; Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries; Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change; Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics; 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; Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients. Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework; Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients; Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists; Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates; Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues. About the Candidate Th is is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and p ro -active c linical pharmacist to join t he team. We are looking for people who can support the effective delivery of patient care by utilising pharmaceutical skills to appropriately manage medical demand and ensure that patients see the right clinician. All applicants should have completed a degree in pharmacy and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. If you are interested in this rol e and want to work for a forward-thinking practice who offer support and training in a friendly and fast paced environment, then please do submit your CV. About Us The Rowhedge and University of Essex Medical Practice is a locally unique GP Practice due to its large student patient population at the University of Essex. We are a split site practice with approximately 4000 patients registered at our Rowhedge Practice and 12000 patients registered at our University of Essex site. This leads to a diverse mixture of clinical practice and health needs. The Rowhedge site is partially dispensing to approximately 3000 patients. At the practice we work within a friendly team who are supportive of one another and focussed on delivering high quality patient care. We are a high achieving QOF practice which is forward thinking and proactive. We are looking for a like-minded clinical pharmacist to join our team ideally someone who has a good working knowledge of Systm1. You will work alongside another clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician as well as supporting the staff in our dispensary. 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.