PCN Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Bushey; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bushey is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist with independent prescribing qualifications to support their GP team. Responsibilities include managing prescriptions and providing clinical advice. Ideal candidates will have experience in a GP practice and be proficient in chronic disease management. This full-time role offers the chance to work within a supportive primary care setting.

Qualifications

• Qualified independent prescriber with experience in primary care.
• Completion of an approved clinical pharmacist training pathway.
• Expertise in supporting prescription and medication queries.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary support to General Practice staff regarding prescriptions.
• Manage repeat prescriptions and acute prescription requests.
• Conduct structured medication reviews.

Skills

Independent prescribing

Experience in GP practice

Medication review

Chronic disease management

Education

Qualification in independent prescribing

18-month training pathway

Job description

We are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist with independent prescribing to join our team of pharmacists and other health care professionals. They need to have an IP qualification and we are ideally looking for someone to support the GP team with their routine EPS workload using EMIS. Ideally this would be working from one our surgeries and have experience working within a GP Practice.

You will be a qualified independent prescriber.

Hours: Full time Hours

Salary: Dependant on experience

Main duties of the job

You will provide primary support to General Practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. You will help support the repeat prescription system (including EPS), deal with acute prescription requests, structured medication reviews and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care. You will support systems for safer prescribing and provide expertise in clinical medicines advice needs of patients in our single practice PCN. You could have expertise in a chronic disease area eg diabetes or asthma management and could run chronic disease clinics.

About us

Attenborough Surgery is a long established, award winning, forward thinking GP practice. We have a practice list size approximately 33,000 patients and are based over 4 surgery sites within 15 minutes drive of each other, serving the population of Bushey and Watford. We are <5 minutes drive from Junction 5 of the M1. We are a single practice Primary Care Network and a well-established training practice, respected for our collaborative working, training, teaching, and personal development within our team.

Job responsibilities

You will provide primary support to General Practice staff with regardsto prescription and medication queries. You will help support the repeatprescription system (including EPS), deal with acute prescription requests,structured medication reviews and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care.You will support systems for safer prescribing and provide expertise inclinical medicines advice needs of patients in our single practice PCN.

You will have qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent and be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist training pathways.You will be a qualified prescriber.

You will be a qualified independent prescriber.

Hours: We are looking for a clinical pharmacist to work full time hours

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• You will have qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent and be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist training pathways.
• You will be a qualified independent prescriber.
• Ideally you would have experience working within a GP Practice

Qualifications

• Qualification in independent prescribing

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.