Practice Pharmacist

Brookside Group Practice; Reading; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Brookside Group Practice in Reading is seeking a Practice Pharmacist to join our forward-thinking team on a 17-hour-per-week basis. The role focuses on delivering medication reviews and patient query services through telephone and in-clinic consultations.

You will ensure data is recorded accurately to support patient care and data analysis, attend practice meetings, and contribute to a collaborative, growth-oriented environment within our Berkshire West network.

Qualifications

• Part-time role: 17 hours per week.
• Experience in medication reviews and patient queries.
• Strong teamwork and data-recording capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide medication review and query services to patients via telephone or face-to-face clinics as appropriate in the practice.
• Ensure data is recorded so that patient care is enhanced and can be retrieved for data analysis.
• Attend and contribute to practice meetings; support a collaborative team environment.

Skills

Medication review

Data entry

Communication

Tools

Emis Web

Accu-Rx

DXS

ANIMA Documents

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Pharmacist to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at Brookside Group Practice. We are looking for 17 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a medication review and query services to patients via the telephone or face to face clinics as appropriate in the practice.
• Ensure data is recorded so that patient care is enhanced (eg coding, reminders) and so that it can be retrieved in a meaningful way to help manage patient care and help with data analysis.
• It will be necessary to attend and contribute to various practice meetings as requested., Due to our size, we value communication and teamwork. We operate a strongly relational team structure and endeavour to listen well, encourage ownership and involvement and enable staff to grow in their individual development. We, therefore, spend a lot of time investing in team meetings and communication across the organisation. We are a member of Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group.

We recently won the HSJ (Health Services Journal) Digital Award for our innovative work we've done to refine our triage processes and model of care.

Other key aspects of the Practice include:

• Use of Anima to aid triage/consultation
• Strong IT and systems including Emis Web, Accu-Rx, DXS, ANIMA Documents
• Longstanding Training Practice with GP Registrars, Physician Assistants trainees and others

The Practice serves approximately 31,000 patients from our 4 surgeries in Earley, Lower Earley, Winnersh and Wilderness Road.