Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Norbury Medical Practice have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join their dynamic growing team. We are looking for someone enthusiastic about providing high quality care to our patients and becoming an integral part of our growing clinical pharmacy team.

As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be working on a permanent contract in a clinical and service development capacity to ensure the service to patients is planned, delivered, and evaluated in line with evidence-based practice. Working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to help create and maintain a robust service whilst seamlessly incorporating other centre services.

The Clinical Pharmacist will be a patient facing role with plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care, and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role. We work with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care and unplanned healthcare services in Croydon and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
• Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the practice and to help tackling inequalities.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, audits, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Registered with GPhC
• Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
• This position will be responsible for the formulation, processing, and packaging of pharmaceuticals for distribution to our patients.

Overview of your organisation

The post holder will benefit from:

• Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
• Support to enrol in and complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway if required.
• Progressing to achieving their independent prescribing qualification

You will be provided support, mentorship and training by our Senior Clinical Pharmacist and also be assigned a GP supervision time as well.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift

Application question(s):

• At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting

Licence/Certification:

• GPhC (required)
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent (required)

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• 2b Pollards Hill North: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
• Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

• Base: Norbury Medical Practice, 2b Pollards Hill North, London SW16 4NL

• Salary:Up to £46,000 WTE dependant on experience

  Working hours:37 hours per week

  33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays and 5 study days.

• Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting
• Licence/Certification:
• GPhC (required)
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent (required)

Experience

Essential

• At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting

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

Norbury Medical Practice

Address

2b Pollards Hill North

London

SW16 4NL

Employer's website

https://www.norburymedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)