Post-Registration Pharmacist

NHS; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a friendly and supportive team as a Post-registration Pharmacist at a leading medical centre in Pontypool. This role offers an exceptional opportunity for early-career pharmacists to build clinical skills while collaborating with healthcare professionals to provide optimal patient care in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Recently qualified or early-career pharmacist (up to 24 months post registration).
• Strong clinical communication and interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiasm for working in general practice and providing patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Undertake structured medication reviews and support medicines optimisation.
• Support patients with long-term conditions such as asthma, COPD, and diabetes.
• Assist in improving antimicrobial stewardship and reducing medication waste.

Skills

Clinical communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

GPhC registration as a pharmacist

Completion of pre-registration foundation training

Tools

EMIS

Vision

Job description

We are seeking aproactive and clinically confident Post-registration Pharmacist to joinour friendly and supportive general practice team at The Pontypool MedicalCentre. This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified orearly-career pharmacist (up to 24 months post registration) looking to buildtheir clinical skills in a primary care setting.

You will workclosely with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure safe,effective, and person-centred use of medicines for our patient population.

Main duties of the job

This is anexcellent opportunity for a recently qualified or early-career pharmacist (upto 24 months post registration) looking to build their clinical skills in aprimary care setting.

About us

Pontypool Medical Centre is a multi-site general practice operatingacross several locations.

Our main site is a large, well-equipped surgery located in the centre ofPontypool. We also have two smaller branch surgeries: one in New Inn and adispensing practice in the village of Goytre. In addition, our wider groupincludes practices based in Newport and Gelligaer, offering the opportunity togain experience across a range of different primary care settings.

As a large and dynamic practice with a diversemultidisciplinary team, we are well placed to provide a broad and comprehensivetraining experience for foundation pharmacists

Job responsibilities

Undertakestructured medication reviews and support medicines optimisation

Supportpatients with long-term conditions such as asthma, COPD, hypertension, anddiabetes

Provideprescribing support under clinical supervision (if independent prescribingqualified)

Contributeto safe repeat prescribing systems

Helpmanage clinical correspondence related to medicines

Supportaudit, formulary work, and medicines safety initiatives

Assist inimproving antimicrobial stewardship and reducing medication waste

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GPhC registration as a pharmacist
• Completion of pre-registration foundation training
• Strong clinical communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Enthusiasm for working in general practice and delivering person-centred care
• Familiarity with prescribing systems (e.g. EMIS, Vision)

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.