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Summary
A varied, exciting, industry specific opportunity for a Pharmacist to join the Baxter family in Cheadle. Whilst maintaining patient safety, the successful candidate will be responsible for the patient and prescription management for specialist homecare Pharmacy therapies.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
* Be the Responsible Pharmacist to deliver prescription management and dispensing across all therapies in line with operational KPIs and standards, whilst maintaining patient safety.
* Process the prescription receipt and conduct clinical screening/intervention in line with the standard operating procedures.
* Accurately dispense prescriptions and ensure the timely reporting of near misses and dispensing errors.
* Place product order and authorise prescription entries on the Patient Medication Record.
* Formulate unlicensed medicines and raise the purchase order with the manufacturing provider in line with the patient & customer requirements within the contractual timeframes.
* Communicate and collaborate with the relevant clinical teams to ensure patient adherence is being met in line with the prescription and escape where appropriate.
* Record and accelerate adverse advents and incidents to the relevant escalation point (e.g. Lead Pharmacist, Quality, Pharmacovigilance, Superintendent Pharmacist and Safeguarding Lead).
* Provide clinical counselling and product expertise for patients, associated care teams and pharmacy support staff.
* Mentor and coach pharmacy support staff in the delivery of associated pharmacy training.
Education and Experience
* Registered Pharmacist with GPhC.
* Post registration experience of working in homecare pharmacy setting would be advantageous.
* Successful experience of undertaking clinical investigations (e.g. near-miss investigations).
* Good coaching and training capabilities, ability to motivate and develop others.
* Critical thinker with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of GPhC and RPS pharmacy standards as part of continuous professional development (CPD).
Benefits
* Competitive total compensation package.
* Professional development opportunities.
* High importance placed on work life balance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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