Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. The clinical pharmacist will be clinically managed by the prescribing leads at each practice.

The Clinical Pharmacist will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and part of the role will be patient facing as required and decided by the individual practices.

The Clinical Pharmacist will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practices including care homes.

The Clinical Pharmacist will provide clinical leadership on medicines management and optimisation, quality improvement and meeting guidelines and targets set by the local and direct enhanced services and the quality outcome framework.

Please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Applications are welcome from qualified Clinical Pharmacists with ideally at least one to two years experience of working in a GP practice. Exceptional candidates who are newly qualified will also be considered for this role.
• Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

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

New Road Surgery

Address

166 New Road

Croxley Green

Rickmansworth

Hertfordshire

WD3 3HD

Employer's website

https://www.newroadsurgery.info/ (Opens in a new tab)