Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; West Bromwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Clinical Pharmacist at Clifton Lane Medical Centre, where you'll support patient care through medication reviews and collaboration with healthcare professionals. This role provides a chance to grow professionally in a supportive environment with a focus on comprehensive patient management.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist.
• Knowledge of common acute and chronic conditions.
• Experience working with vulnerable patients.

Responsibilities

• Hold face-to-face and telephone clinics for medication reviews.
• Manage prescription queries and implement medication changes.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams to improve patient safety.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Initiative

Organisational skills

Education

Independent Prescribing qualification

Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

EMIS

SystmOne

Vision

Job description

We are looking to welcome an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic and supportive team at Clifton lane Medical Centre .This vacancy is up to 30 hours per week, salary depending on experience.

Main duties of the job

Were looking for enthusiastic and forward-thinking pharmacist to complement the team. The successful candidate will hold clinics for patients requiring medication reviews, manage prescription queries and be involved in long term condition management. We welcome applicants with or without GP experience. If you have the right skills and qualities, we can provide on-going support to develop professionally.

About us

Clifton Medical Centre's list size is 5500. We have three GP Partners, Salaried GP, Specialist nurse, practice nurse, Clinical Pharmacists along with other admin team. Clifton Medical Centre has a branch site Victoria Health Centre based in Smethwick.

Job responsibilities

Hold face to face and telephone clinics for patients requiring medication reviews.

Provide telephone support for patient queries relating to medication.

Undertake structured medication reviews with multi morbidity and polypharmacy and implement changes whilst ordering relevant monitoring.

Collaborate with the wider healthcare team to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Provide support for the pharmacy technician for management of medicines following hospital discharge and clinic visits.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
• Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills organisation skills with the ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of managers and clinicians. Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Broad knowledge of general practice
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS/SystmOne/Vision

Qualifications

• Independent Prescribing qualification or working towards this qualification
• Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council. A GPhC registered pharmacist
• Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Minor ailments certification
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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.