Clinical Pharmacist

The Parchmore Group; Croydon; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

Development opportunities

Job summary

The Parchmore Group provides GP services to almost 18,000 patients across Thornton Heath and South Croydon. We are a forward-thinking, multi-award-winning GP training practice with a dedicated Pharmacist team.

We are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join at both sites to enhance patient care and support the clinical pharmacist role. Key duties include managing long-term conditions, supporting discharge prescribing, and performing clinical audits.

Qualifications

• Completion of undergraduate degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• May hold or be working towards the independent prescribing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-facing pharmaceutical care and manage long-term conditions.
• Support hospital discharge prescribing and conduct clinical audits to improve patient care.

Education

Undergraduate degree in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Job description

Job summary

The Parchmore Group provides GP services to almost 18,000 patients in Thornton Heath and South Croydon. We are an innovative, forward thinking, multi-award winning GP training practice, with a committed team. We provide multi-professional teaching. We are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacist team working at both sites.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Pharmacist is very much a patient facing role and there will be plenty of opportunity to use your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care and supporting the practices to develop the clinical pharmacist role. Clinical supervision and mentorship will be provided.

About us

We are a group practice that strives to provide high quality medical care and offer a personal approach. All staff are committed to constantly improving the service we provide to ensure the service we offer to patients is clinically excellent as well as innovative and forward thinking. There are opportunities to get involved in Quality Improvement projects.

We have two sites: Parchmore Medical Centre in Thornton Heath and Haling Park Medical Practice in South Croydon.

Our practice team consists of a large non clinical team, Practice Pharmacists, Physicians Associates, 5 Practice Nurses, 3 HCAs, 5 Partners and 10 Salaried GPs. We value our large workforce and seek opportunities for improving everyone's well being. We have regular social events such as quiz evenings, BBQ, Xmas party and an extra day's leave is given for birthdays.

We offer a competitive package with support for development

Job responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist is very much a patient facing role and there will be plenty of opportunity to use your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role. Clinical supervision and mentorship will be provided.

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Qualifications

• Completion of undergraduate degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• May hold or be working towards the independent prescribing qualification

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years' experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Have an experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).