Practice Pharmacist

Job summary

Colliery Court Medical Group are looking for an enthusiastic Practice Pharmacist with General Practice experience to join our friendly team.

We are an innovative and forward-looking practice of 8,250 patients, working in a well-equipped purpose built premises.

We believe in retaining the traditional values of general practice, including a strong patient-centred ethos, while embracing innovation and technology to provide a general practice fit for the future.

We embrace skill-mix with an extensive team, including GPs, pharmacists, advanced nurse practitioners, practice nurses, first contact physiotherapists, mental health practitioners, podiatrists, social prescribing link workers and health care assistants.

We are a training practice (GP registrars and medical students) and provide weekly teaching and real time supervision to our healthcare professionals.

We support the professional development of our team.

Main duties of the job

• Up-to-date clinical knowledge, a thorough understanding of primary care prescribing, medication reviews, experience of designing and implementing strategies for improving prescribing.
• The ability to thrive when working in a devolved, flexible, autonomous environment.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience of conducting face to face and remote clinical caseloads in primary care.
• Maintain a good knowledge of QOF, enhanced services and other parts of the GP Contract, CQC clinical regulatory standards, IIF and other areas.
• Work alongside ICB and PCN pharmacists and liaising to ensure no duplication in workstreams.
• Processing prescription requests including acute requests
• Processing incoming documents with medication amendments and monitoring requirements.
• Responding to Tasks and emails in both the clinical System (Optum EMIS) and Outlook.
• Processing lost prescription replacement requests, reviewing the appropriateness of re-issuing another prescription.
• Run monthly Medicines Safety searches.
• To uphold the NHS commitment to addressing health inequalities and be involved in ensuring care is available to people from all communities.

About us

Colliery Court Medical Group is a well-established, supportive, forward thinking, GMS practice in Boldon Colliery. Located approximately 5 miles east of Newcastle, with easy access to the A1, A19 and Tyne Tunnel.

About us:

List size of approx. 8,250 patients

Supportive clinical team including 6 GPs, 2 Nurse Practitioners, 2 Practice Nurses, 2 GP Assistants and a Healthcare Assistant.

Experienced and friendly management/admin/reception team

Teaching practice with opportunities for clinicians to participate in the teaching of GPRs, Medical and Nursing students

Above average earnings

EMIS Web system supported by Ardens, AccuRX, footfall and eConsult

High QOF achievement

Consistently high patient satisfaction

Good CQC rating

Active members of the local primary care network