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.
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.
Main duties of the job
* 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
Experience
* 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.
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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