Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Our clinical pharmacist will work ensuring safe, evidence based, and cost-effective prescribing. You will also be responsible for offering support to general practice staff in relation to prescription and medication queries as well as conducting medicines reconciliation on transfer of care.

Responsibilities of the role will include:

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
• Take on responsibility for areas of chronic disease management, working proactively with other healthcare professionals.
• Support the delivery of the new Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
• Conduct structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Provide clinical medicines expertise to both patients and practice teams.
• Improve prescribing practices across the Practice.
• Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as clinical audits.
• Interface with community and hospital colleagues to help resolve medication-related issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• About the Candidate
• You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:
• Essential qualifications, skills, and experience:
• Vocational 4-year master's degree in pharmacy
• 1 years pre-registration training
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Covid vaccination training
• Good critical appraisal skills
• Experience of patient consultation
• Experience of working with GPs
• Good understanding of primary care structure and general practice
• Good clinical knowledge
• Able to apply clinical knowledge, appropriately, in a variety of practice settings or patient groups.
• Desirable qualifications, skills, and experience:
• Postgraduate diploma/MSc in clinical or community pharmacy, or equivalent
• Non-medical prescriber registration
• Advanced assessment and history taking skills or be willing to enrol in a current training pathway to develop these.
• Post-registration experience in primary, secondary or community pharmacy
• Experience of clinical pharmacy
• Knowledge of GP clinical computer system SystmOne

Desirable

• Right to work in the UK. Please note that there is no sponsorship available for this role.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Harrold Medical Practice

Address

Peachs Close

Harrold

Bedford

MK43 7DX

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://www.harroldmedicalpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)