Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A multi-site healthcare provider in King's Lynn is seeking a permanent registered pharmacist to provide pharmacy support and ensure high-quality patient service across multiple locations. The ideal candidate will have a pharmacy degree and experience in general practice, working closely with clinical and admin staff to optimize patient care and medication management.

Benefits

Free parking

Qualifications

• Applicants MUST have previous general practice experience or prior experience as a GP Pharmacist.
• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Draw up structured medication reviews.
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.

Skills

Reliable and hard-working

Pharmaceutical consultations

Organising and overseeing teams

Improving patient understanding

Education

Completion of a degree in pharmacy

MPharm degree or equivalent

Qualification from accredited training pathway

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Vida Healthcare has an exciting and new opportunity that has arisen. We are currently looking to employ a reliable and hard-working permanent registered pharmacist on a full or part-time basis, to provide additional pharmacy support to the practice.The role will cover work for patients registered across the four sites.

You will be responsible for providing a high-quality service to all our patients, help to achieve prescribing targets within the prescribing team and ensure patient data is accurate. In addition, you will be offering an excellent standard of support to all clinical and admin staff, ensuring good quality service delivery and confidentiality, with patient satisfaction a priority

Main duties of the job

• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Draw up structured medication reviews.
• Complete complex discharge and clinic letters.
• Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.
• Organise and oversee the work of the PCN pharmacy team, to help ensure the requirements of the practice are being fulfilled and align.
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities.
• Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
• Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.

About us

Vida Healthcare is a multi-site, part- dispensing GP partnership looking after approx. 30,300 patients across 4 sites in 3 locations in West Norfolk.We are highly organised and efficient with incredible support teams. Additionally supported by the PCN working together to deliver high quality primary healthcare.

We have a positive vision for the future with strong team working ethics.

• Experienced impressive growth
• Opportunity for extended roles
• Flexibility for right candidate for sessions/hours/locations,
• PMS
• SystmOne
• High QOF achiever

We can offer:Free parking

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Applicants MUST have previous general practice experience or have prior experience working as a GP Pharmacist

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• MPharm degree or equivalent
• If not already obtained, as part of their employment, the post holder will achieve qualification from an accredited training pathway. (CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training pathway)

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.