Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Bedford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bedford is seeking a qualified clinical pharmacist for a full-time role. This position involves assessing and treating patients, providing medication reviews, and contributing to public health initiatives. Applicants must have a degree in pharmacy and relevant experience. The role offers a minimum of 28 days annual leave and is on a fixed term contract.

Benefits

Proper pay and Living Wage Foundation accredited

Annual leave: minimum 28 days FTE, with enhancements for long service

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community).
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

Responsibilities

• Clinically assessing and treating patients with expert knowledge of medicines.
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice.
• Delivering on aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

Skills

Clinical assessment

Patient communication

Medication management

Clinical advice

Education

Degree in pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Qualified independent prescriber

Job description

The De Parys Group is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
• 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.
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
• Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks andNHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training.
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework.
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetesand COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with.
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

About us

The De Parys Groups priority is to provide the highest standard of clinical care to the 38,000 patients registered with the practice. We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home. We embrace a continuous improvement ethos and strive to ensure that we are available to patients when they need a consultation. We have a strong training ethos within the practice with a team of medical and non-medical educators as well as opportunities for non-clinical staff to develop and progress.

TDPG is fortunate to have its own dispensaries at our De Parys and Bromham sites. In addition to our routine GMS services, we offer a comprehensive range of services including minor surgery, LARC provision and anticoagulation clinics.

We have high QOF achievement and excellent KPIs within the group.

Benefits include:

• Proper pay andLiving Wage Foundation accredited.
• Annual leave: minimum 28 days FTE, with enhancements for long service.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this.
• Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

Experience

• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals.
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable.
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

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.