Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bury St Edmunds is seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist for a full-time position. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, clinically assess patients, and provide medication management for chronic diseases. Essential qualifications include a pharmacy degree and independent prescriber status. The salary ranges from £48,000 to £53,000 depending on experience, and the role involves tackling health inequalities and improving patient care.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
• Be involved in the care management of patients with chronic diseases.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines.

Skills

Expert knowledge of medicines

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in pharmacy

Independent prescriber qualification

Job description

Mount Farm Surgery 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, Monday-Friday.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
• Be involved in the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services

About us

Suffolk GP Federation We are members of the Suffolk GP Federation, a not-for-profit federation of 61 independent GP practices covering 540,000 patients. The federation promotes collaboration to improve services for patients, share best practice, and address issues that cannot easily be resolved by individual practices. Bury St Edmunds Primary Care Network (PCN) In July 2019 a local primary care network (PCN) was formed between Angel Hill Surgery, Guildhall & Barrow Surgery, Mount Farm Surgery, Swan Surgery and Victoria Surgery serving our combined 65,000 patients in Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding villages. We have a Clinical Director who leads us in having a real impact on the shape of primary care in our local area. Part of this is through better collaboration as we are able to employ more specialist clinical staff that a single practice could not do.

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.

£48,000 to £53,000 a year- depending on experience