PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Primary Care to work as a Clinical Pharmacist in our Churchill, Canbury, Orchard and Berrylands Primary Care Network (CCOB PCN). We care for approximately 50,000 patients in four practices across the borough of Kingston; this role would be based at Canbury Medical Centre and Berrylands Surgery.

This is a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Pharmacist with excellent communication skills to join us in our PCN. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team within our practices and liaise with external healthcare professionals from community and hospital settings. The PCN can also offer support within a wider pharmacy team including prescribing clerks, pharmacy technicians and another clinical pharmacist employed across our practices.

The role will have a strong patient facing focus, with the successful candidate undertaking the following areas of work:

Medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy

Responsibility for areas of chronic disease management, dependent on experience

Provide support on prescription and medication queries, providing clinical guidance to the pharmacy technicians and prescribing clerks.

Provide clinical leadership on medicines quality improvement

Contribute to managing some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework

Work with Kingston CCG pharmacists on the local medicines optimisation framework

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires self-motivation and passion to deliver high quality patient care within general practice. The successful candidate will have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills together with a good working knowledge of primary care.

You will need to have a combination of at least two years post registration experience, a degree level qualification, Registration with the GPhC and Professional Indemnity membership. You will also need sound clinical knowledge and computer literacy.

We can offer a range of benefits to the successful candidate including six weeks annual leave, membership of the NHS Pension scheme and a competitive salary. The practices have a strong record of supporting further training and development for staff. If you think you have the right experience and are up to the challenge we would be very keen to hear from you. Informal visits and discussion about the role can be arranged, please contact Joanna Hoppe (Joanna.hoppe@nhs.net)

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A degree level qualification
• Registration with the GPhC Professional Indemnity membership Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills Sound clinical knowledge
• Computer literacy

Experience

Essential

• At least two years post registration experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

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

Churchill Medical Centre

Address

Clifton Road

Kingston Upon Thames

Surrey

KT2 6PG

Employer's website

https://www.churchillmedicalcentre.com/ (Opens in a new tab)