Pharmacist

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Professional development support

27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Job summary

Two Rivers Medical Centre in Ipswich is seeking a qualified clinical pharmacist to join our busy practice. The role can be full- or part-time and focuses on clinically assessing patients, providing medicines expertise, and conducting medication reviews.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, manage repeat prescriptions, support dispensary activities and liaise with secondary care to ensure safe transfer of care.

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the GPhC.
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community).
• Qualified independent prescriber desirable.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
• Awareness of breadth of common acute and long-term conditions likely in general practice.
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individual.

Responsibilities

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information.
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review.
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
• Processing specialist treatment letters.
• Supporting practice dispensary.
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
• Acting as a key contact for all medication related queries.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients based on clinical need.
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
• Liaising with other providers to ensure safe transfer of care.
• Being part of a professional clinical network with clinical supervision access.
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process.
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets and engaging with the prescribing team.

Skills

Primary care experience

Medicine knowledge

Public health awareness

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical decision making

Accountability of professional service

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Qualified independent prescriber desirable

Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Job description

About the Role

Two Rivers Medical Centre are looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full or part-time basis.

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters
• Supporting practice dispensary
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinicalsupervision;
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community)
• Qualified independent prescriber desirable
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions
• Ability to demonstrateaccountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals

About Us

As an Employee of Two Rivers Medical Centre, you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Genuine responsibility from day one
• Work with a strong social purpose
• A competitive salary with increments based on professional development
• Membership of the NHS pension
• Support to guide your personal and professional development
• Excellent training and development opportunitiesWorking in a purpose built facility
• Working in the largest single site GP surgery in Suffolk
• 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing with continual years of NHS service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.