Clinical Pharmacist vacancy (Cheylesmore Surgery - Doctors Coventry)

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare practice in Coventry is seeking a motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join their team. The role involves managing minor illnesses, conducting medication reviews, and ensuring optimal use of medicines. The ideal candidate will be an independent prescriber with experience in primary care. This position offers the opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary team in a forward-thinking environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Experience of seeing patients with minor illness.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews and chronic disease management.
• Support prescription management and safety.

Skills

Independent Prescribing

Patient Consultation

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)

Job description

Clinical Pharmacist vacancy (Cheylesmore Surgery - Doctors Coventry)

Cheylesmore Surgery is expanding it's clinical team and is looking for an experienced and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join its existing multidisciplinary team.

We are happy to consider 1 Full Time Clinical Pharmacist or 2 Part Time Clinical Pharmacists.

We are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist who is an independent prescriber and experienced in dealing with patients with minor illness (see & treats).

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Pharmacist will work alongside our established clinical team to support the assessment and management of minor/common/self-limiting illness (consulting with patients with differentiated and undifferentiated illness), chronic disease and medicines optimisation.

Specifically, the clinical pharmacist will work autonomously within an extended role (within own competency) to provide a combination of on the day appointments, minor illness (see & treats) alongside chronic disease management/clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients and provide pharmaceutical advice to the practice population. They will support the repeat prescription service, deal with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and review systems for safer prescribing.

An independent prescribing qualification is essential - please do not apply if you are not a prescriber.

The Clinical Pharmacist will help patients to get optimal use from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

About us

Cheylesmore Surgery is a forward thinking, friendly General Practice. We have a holistic and integrated approach for our large patient population. We are a training clinical practice with 2 senior GP's, 3 salaried GP's, 1 Nurse Practitioner, 1 Clinical Pharmacist, 1 Paramedic Practitioner and 1 Healthcare Assistant. We also have 3 GP Trainees.

Job responsibilities

The role of the Clinical Pharmacist will include:

• Reduce the medicine related workload on the GP's
• Manage patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments (consulting with patients with differentiated and undifferentiated illness) while working within scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines.
• Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries

They should support the following clinical work:

• Clinical Medication Review
• Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD/Polypharmacy review)
• Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers

They should also support the follow practice development work:

• Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registers
• Prescribing Safety, Clinical Audit, Local Enhanced Services support
• Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff).

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of seeing patients with minor illness (see & treats) - essential
• Experience of working in primary care

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years postqualification experience.
• Completion of NHS England clinical pharmacist training pathway desirable

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.