Clinical Pharmacist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergy Health PCN is recruiting a clinical pharmacist to join its team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, supporting medicines management across three GP practices. The role focuses on medication reviews, medicines reconciliation, safe prescribing, and repeat prescribing, with independent prescribing and guidance from a Senior Clinical Pharmacist.

You will handle medicines queries from patients and the wider team, manage chronic disease care (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, asthma, COPD)

Responsibilities

• Undertake medication reviews with patients, make prescribing changes as an independent prescriber and order monitoring tests
• Reduce medicines-related workload on clinicians and improve the safety and quality of prescribed medicines
• Manage medicines queries and repeat prescribing systems across the practices
• Review hospital correspondence, including medicines reconciliation
• Manage chronic disease, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, asthma and COPD, and carry out polypharmacy review
• Manage systems that ensure safe prescribing
• Act as a source of medicines information for the PCN team and patients, suggesting interventions
• Support practices with the Quality and Outcomes Framework and disease register validation
• Support prescription management in line with practice and PCN policies
• Provide support on medicines issues to the PCN team
• Build working relationships with community pharmacists and other local healthcare providers
• Plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work

Skills

Independent prescribing

Clinical pharmacy

Medicines management

Medication reviews

Pharmacy queries

Job description

Synergy Health PCN is recruiting a clinical pharmacist to join its team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, which supports medicines management across the network's three GP practices. The work centres on medication reviews, medicines reconciliation, safe prescribing systems and repeat prescribing, with the post holder also handling medicines queries from patients and the wider team. Chronic disease management, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, asthma and COPD, sits alongside independent prescribing, with day-to-day support from a Senior Clinical Pharmacist.

What the job involves

• Undertake medication reviews with patients, make prescribing changes as an independent prescriber and order monitoring tests
• Reduce medicines-related workload on clinicians and improve the safety and quality of prescribed medicines
• Manage medicines queries and repeat prescribing systems across the practices
• Review hospital correspondence, including medicines reconciliation
• Manage chronic disease, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, asthma and COPD, and carry out polypharmacy review
• Manage systems that ensure safe prescribing
• Act as a source of medicines information for the PCN team and patients, suggesting interventions
• Support practices with the Quality and Outcomes Framework and disease register validation
• Support prescription management in line with practice and PCN policies
• Provide support on medicines issues to the PCN team
• Build working relationships with community pharmacists and other local healthcare providers
• Plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work