Job summary
Oakmeadow Surgery (Glenfield, Leicester) is a city-based
practice, with 8,500 patients and 4 partners.
We are currently looking to expand our clinical team to
recruit a Pharmacist who can help lead our organisation into the future.
We offer:
Full time/Part time position available.
Flexible schedule, usually 4-5 days a week.
Very competitive pay £22-26 per hour (dependent on
experience in GP)
NHS pension and annual leave included.
Opportunities for close mentoring, leadership, learning
and development
Main duties of the job
As a clinical pharmacist you will be working closely with our practice team to provide medication advice, conduct health checks, manage medication
changes for hospital discharges, and review and improve prescription processes.
Your role is pivotal to improve patients quality ofcare and ensuring patient safety. You will be responsible for managing patientswith chronic
diseases and undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively
manage people with complex polypharmacy.
About us
We employ a host of highly skilled staff
including pharmacists, pre-reg pharmacists, nurses, HCAs and other roles. We
are a training practice and support medical students and GP resident doctors.
We are an extremely supportive and
strong team. We pride ourselves on working smarter, being innovative and being
high achieving (in terms of QOF, IIF and DES).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job
- Act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters
- To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
- Reconciliation of medications from correspondence
- To manage the practices drug monitoring systems and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, DMARDs, shared cares etc
- To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
- To consult with patients within defined levels of competence
- Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
- Undertaking the care management of patients with long-term conditions
- Undertake medication reviews including patients with complex polypharmacy and multiple co-morbidities
- Contribute to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
- Take a central role in clinical research
- To assist in the weekly ward rounds for the practices care homes
- Reviewing medications for newly registered patients
- To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
- To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
- To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
- To review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
- To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job
- Act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters
- To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
- Reconciliation of medications from correspondence
- To manage the practices drug monitoring systems and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, DMARDs, shared cares etc
- To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
- To consult with patients within defined levels of competence
- Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
- Undertaking the care management of patients with long-term conditions
- Undertake medication reviews including patients with complex polypharmacy and multiple co-morbidities
- Contribute to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
- Take a central role in clinical research
- To assist in the weekly ward rounds for the practices care homes
- Reviewing medications for newly registered patients
- To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
- To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
- To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
- To review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
- To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- - Experience of working in primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- - GPhC registered pharmacist
- - Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
- - The clinical pharmacist is enrolled in, or has qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways)
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- - Experience of working in primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- - GPhC registered pharmacist
- - Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
- - The clinical pharmacist is enrolled in, or has qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways)
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).
Additional information
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).
