Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Hold face to face and telephone clinics for patients requiring medication reviews.

Provide telephone support for patient queries relating to medication.

Undertake structured medication reviews with multi morbidity and polypharmacy and implement changes whilst ordering relevant monitoring.

Collaborate with the wider healthcare team to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Provide support for the pharmacy technician for management of medicines following hospital discharge and clinic visits.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
• Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills organisation skills with the ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of managers and clinicians. Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports

Desirable

• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Broad knowledge of general practice
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS/SystmOne/Vision

Qualifications

Essential

• Independent Prescribing qualification or working towards this qualification
• Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council. A GPhC registered pharmacist
• Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Desirable

• Minor ailments certification
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Medicines management qualification

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

Clifton Medical Centre

Address

Clifton Lane

Stone Cross

West Bromwich

B71 3AS

Employer's website

https://www.mysurgerywebsite.co.uk/contact1.aspx?p=M88630 (Opens in a new tab)