Clinical Pharmacist - Riverside Surgery

Job summary

Exciting opportunity for a Full / Part Time Practice Pharmacist post at Riverside Surgery

Situated in beautiful Worcestershire countryside, Riverside Surgery is a dynamic and proactive practice, due to a strong partnership with a forward thinking and positive ethos around providing the highest quality of care to our patients and developing our team.

We are looking for:

A Pharmacist who is motivated, ambitious and who will enjoy helping to shape the future of the practice.

- Ideally already qualified as an Independent Prescriber with general practice experience but will be supported with training and development as needed

Please note we may choose to close this advert early if we receive too many applications. If you have not heard anything from us four weeks after the closing date then you have been unsuccessful in being shortlisted on this occasion.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in the Practice

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service

Oversee the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, including reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries

About us

We are:

• A semi-rural, high QOF achieving EMIS web practice of 15,350 patients, with very good patient feedback in our recent MORI poll.
• A dispensing practice.
• An experienced training practice for GPs, medical and nursing students, with excellent feedback.
• Committed to a healthy life/work balance
• Committed to developing new ways of working to enhance efficiency and quality for a successful future.
• Located in a purpose built, recently extended building close to Evesham Community hospital.

We were rated overall Good in our last CQC Inspection.