Overview
Grovelands Medical Centre are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist with General Practice experience to work closely with our practice teams – to deliver our pharmacy vision, delivering excellent pharmacy-led services for patients registered with the practice. Experience in General Practice is essential.
We encourage daily morning coffee breaks to allow for catch up with colleagues at 11am.
Responsibilities
* Deal with the repeat prescription system, acute prescription requests, and management of medicines on transfer of care: discharge letters, treatment advice notes and medicines reconciliation.
* Provide telephone clinics for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
* Perform structured medication reviews, manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
* Work with the practice in enabling them to develop and apply systems for safer prescribing.
* Develop good relationships between local community pharmacies, and the PCN pharmacy team.
* Involvement with periodic meetings for identifying and reviewing prescribing and patient safety issues.
* Involvement in the Prescribing Quality Scheme, PINCER and QOF aspects for prescribing and audits.
* Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration and conduct periodic care home visits to help achieve this.
* To work efficiently with other members of the pharmacy team, clinicians, and the admin team.
* The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Qualifications
* Up-to-date clinical knowledge, a thorough understanding of primary care prescribing, medication reviews, experience of designing and implementing strategies for improving prescribing.
* Commitment to addressing health inequalities and ensuring care is available to people from all communities.
* The ability to recognise personal limitations and boundaries, to understand those of colleagues, and refer to others when necessary.
* Ability to thrive in a devolved, flexible, autonomous environment.
* Experience within General Practice is essential.
* Independent Prescribing Qualification is desirable.
Team and Environment
You will join our friendly, dynamic team of 7 Partners from diverse backgrounds, serving approximately 14,000 patients. We are an EMIS Web practice with a full range of enhanced services.
Hours, Salary and Benefits
* Full time hours (37.5 hours a week) with some flexibility for the right candidate.
* Salary negotiable and dependent on previous experience.
* NHS Pension
* Onsite parking
Apply
Any questions and informal visit welcomed, please contact our Deputy Practice Manager.
Applications to be sent to our Deputy Practice Manager
Email: grovelands.admin@nhs.net
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