Clinical Pharmacist – Unity Healthcare

Suffolk GP Federation; Landseer; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Canada seeks a dedicated Pharmacist to join their Clinical Practice Pharmacy Team. The role involves managing prescribing systems, supporting patient care through Econsult queries, and working closely with a team of pharmacists and technicians. The organization emphasizes professional development, offering training opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Commitment to personal development and training opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Death in service cover

Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking

Access to Blue light card discounts

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Willingness to obtain Independent Prescribing qualification if not already an independent prescriber.
• Understanding of GPs and general practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide support in managing prescribing systems for safe and effective prescribing.
• Process Econsult queries from patients.
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary clinical team.

Skills

Empathy

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Motivation

Education

General Pharmaceutical Council registration

Independent Prescribing qualification (if not already possessed)

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a different in general practice? Are you looking for a flexible employer that will support your professional development?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist to join our well-established Clinical Practice Pharmacy Team, working across our clinical patient facing sites including Haverhill, Long Melford and Lavenham as well as from our centralised Hub in Haverhill, where most of the clinical workload is triaged with telephone and virtual consultations.

What’s the role?

• You’ll work with a highly-skilled, well supported and forward thinking clinical team..
• Essentially you will provide support for the management and development of prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and quality prescribing within Unity
• You will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy practice team working alongside pharmacists and pharmacy technicians reporting to the senior pharmacist.
• You will also be involved in processing Econsult queries from patients.

The Clinical Pharmacy Team is highly appreciated by our wider multi-disciplinary team covering patient cohort of over twenty-four thousand. There are clear benefits to the patients, GPs, the multi-disciplinary team, and the wider practice team.

We have a team of: 4 Clinical Pharmacists, 4 Pharmacy Technicians, 1 pre-registration pharmacy technician & 2 medicines care coordinators, supported by a Senior clinical Pharmacist.

We want to invest in our staff, so professional development is encouraged and supported. We will support you towards, an Independent Prescribing qualification unless already an independent prescriber.

Is it for me?

We will make sure you are fully inducted and trained. It’s important to us that you feel safe and supported in your role.

• You’d be suited to this role if you have a caring and empathetic nature
• The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• You will also need to have an appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices and good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, motivated and wanting to offer the very best up to date patient care
• It’s important that you can work well as part of a team as well as independently
• You’ll need to be able to pick up new IT systems with supportive training

Contract type

• Up to full time: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
• Part time hours considered
• Possibility of some homeworking

What we can offer you:

• Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
• A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
• Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
• A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
• Cycle to work scheme
• Death in service cover
• Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
• Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street

DBS

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.

Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Get in touch with our Senior Pharmacist, David Strobridge-Smith [e-mail] – we’d love to hear from you.