Avon Valley PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

• Opportunity to join a small team of experienced and enthusiastic pharmacists and technicians
• Salary Based on experience
• Annual leave - 25 days pro rata plus bank holidays
• Working hours Up to 32 hours per week. Must be able to work Monday and Wednesdays. Flexible working hours can be adapted to your needs.
• NHS Pension

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Clinical Pharmacist with IP qualification to join our friendly Pharmacy team who are embedded in four GP surgeries within Avon Valley PCN. We are a supportive, proactive and forward-thinking Pharmacy team with an excellent clinical lead. We serve a population of around 40,000 patients across four sites, The Fordingbridge Surgery in Fordingbridge, The Ringwood Medical Centre and Cornerways Surgeries in Ringwood and Twin Oaks Surgery in Bransgore. The practices have been working together for some time and have a good relationship with each other and with the well-respected pharmacy team.

Main duties of the job

The clinical pharmacist will work with the existing pharmacy team to support the safer delivery of medicines and support medicines optimisation across the PCN. We are keen for the clinical pharmacist to have the opportunity to use their prescribing qualification. They will:

• Undertake structured medication reviews for patients to proactively manage patients with chronic diseases and complex polypharmacy
• Work on, and lead on, large scale projects to improve medicines safety across the PCN
• Identify patients who would most benefit from additional support to get the best outcomes from their medicines and address medicines related issues with them.
• Run patient facing clinics to discuss CVD primary prevention, have shared decision making conversations with patients and commence statins where agreed.
• Support the development and implementation of systems for safer prescribing and monitoring of medicines
• Provide specialist medicines management advice to patients and health care professionals

As we are a small team you will also have opportunities to influence the projects you get involved with, depending on your skills and experiences. This is an evolving job role with huge scope for development as we expand our Pharmacy team further.

About us

Avon Valley Primary Care Network is an umbrella organisation delivering care to 40,000 patients, across four GMS Practices based in the New Forest area. The Practices include The Fordingbridge Surgery in Fordingbridge, The Ringwood Medical Centre and Cornerways Surgeries in Ringwood and Twin Oaks Surgery in Bransgore. The practices have been working together for some time and have a good relationship. Together we aim to build robust services across our network to improve patient care and are keen to bring in new members of the primary care team to achieve these goals.

We are fortunate in having both Pharmacists and Technicians already established and embedded in the practices who are employed both by the West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group as well as the Primary Care Network. Both teams work closely together to improve medicines optimisation for all patients across the PCN. The pharmacy team works using an innovative model whereby the day-to-day clinical pharmacy tasks for all four practices are pooled and dealt with as one. They also provide support for the GPs, and carry out medicine optimisation work, medication reviews as well as some long-term condition clinics. We are keen to expand on this expertise to lend more support to long-term condition management including setting up CVD prevention clinics shortly across our network.