Practice Pharmacist

Winyates Health Centre; Hawkesley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Winyates Health Centre is seeking a clinical pharmacist to develop medicines optimisation services within our general practice teams. You will join our multidisciplinary team to run processes for prescription reauthorisation, transfer-of-care medicine management and safer prescribing, following local contracts.

You will work alongside our current practice pharmacist to lead chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews, with independence as a prescriber and a focus on

Qualifications

• Independent prescriber
• Experience of working within a GP practice

Responsibilities

• Manage medicines optimisation within the practice.
• Lead on quality improvement and clinical audit.
• Support repeat prescription reauthorisation and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care.
• Provide clinical medicines advice to GP team.
• Collaborate with hospital and community pharmacy to improve outcomes.

Skills

Independent prescriber

GP practice experience

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to develop the clinical pharmacist rolein our multidisciplinary general practice teams.

We are seeking a clinical pharmacist to develop medicines optimisationservices within our practice. You will work alongside our current practice pharmacist and primary care team to run processes for repeat prescription reauthorisation, management ofmedicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. You will be requiredto follow guidance within our local contracts.

Main duties of the job

You will have a role in managing long-term conditions and medication reviews which may be via telephone or face to face. You must be an independent prescriber. You will also provide leadership on qualityimprovement and clinical audit, as well as managing some aspects of the Qualityand Outcomes Framework.

About us

We area large, well organised GMS practice with a list size of around 17,000.

We are a training practiceVTS and medical students.

Host Practice for Primary CareResearch Network in Redditch and Bromsgrove

Excellent Chronic diseasemanagement recall system

High QoF Achievers

Large supporting team

We use Emis Web and Docman(including EZ Doc)

Well established with EPS

On-site pharmacy

Good sense of humour essential

Job responsibilities

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within theirprofessional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a GP team in general practice.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary teamin a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas ofchronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinicalmedication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. They must be a prescriber.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practicestaff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will helpsupport the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests,and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for saferprescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressingboth public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicinesoptimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality andoutcomes framework and enhanced services.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates withcommunity and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patientoutcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The roleis pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies sorequires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Independent prescriber

Experience

• Experience of working within a GP practice

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.