Job summary
Modality Partnership Haydock
Division has a full-time vacancy for a Prescribing Pharmacist. The postholder
will be a high-performing Prescribing Pharmacist delivering a high-quality, patient-centred
pharmacy service and providing targeted medication reviews to ensure safe,
optimum and cost-effective treatmentsfor Haydock
Medical Centre and the wider Partnership. The postholder will liaise
with ARRS pharmacists and pharmacy techs to ensure that any project work
delivered by their team is aligned with the practice's needs.
This job is
suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in
an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities
and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided
within Primary Care to improve patient care.
The job is not
suitable to people who are not resilient to working in a fast-paced environment,
working flexibly in line with ever changing demands in Primary Care and the
wider NHS.
As an employee with us you can benefit from
Enrolment to
the NHS pension scheme
Annual leave
minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
Employee
discounts and benefits scheme
Employee
assistance programme (EAP)
Education and
career pathways
Enhanced Indemnity
cover
If you are
interested in learning more, please read on.
The
Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time
during the advertising period.
Main duties of the job
The role is an all-rounded, hands-on Clinical Prescribing
Pharmacist role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key
skills such as effective communication, and the ability to work as part of a
multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat
patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
The postholder will work in collaboration with the practice and the National
Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet
the strategic aims of the organisation.
The role is not
your regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure pharmacist patient facing role; the
job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be
required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are
completed.
About us
We are one of
the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and
with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique,
we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the
implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the
organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to
harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and
staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical
skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.
All employees
are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We
are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways
and who align to our organisational values of CARE.
We are seeking dedicated
postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment,
Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
You will not enjoy this job if you are seeking a job that purely focuses on face to face consultations, you prefer the status quo and are comfortable with more traditional ways of working.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
You will not enjoy this job if you are seeking a job that purely focuses on face to face consultations, you prefer the status quo and are comfortable with more traditional ways of working.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent
Personal Qualities
Desirable
- Able to work well under pressure and deliver to tight timescales.
- Well organised
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills to individuals at all levels within and outside of the organisation
- Strong work ethic as part of a team and working on your own initiative.
- Able to respond effectively to changing priorities.
- Logical and systematic in work processes.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber Preferably experience in a general practice setting
Knowledge
Desirable
- Basic knowledge of current NHS Data Standards and Information Systems that apply within GP Practice and Primary Care.
- Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Knowledge of data management and IM&T techniques acquired.
- Knowledge of or an understanding of research in Primary Care which helps to promote positive outcome in wider health care organisations
Skills
Desirable
- Proficient in MS applications including Outlook, Access, Excel and Word and other related software packages.
- Ability to interrogate various databases and present statistical data in a variety of formats including clinical systems such as System One.
- Confident in working well with data and metrics to support the wider business needs of the Division.
- Ability to report on data extracted from the medical system
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent
Personal Qualities
Desirable
- Able to work well under pressure and deliver to tight timescales.
- Well organised
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills to individuals at all levels within and outside of the organisation
- Strong work ethic as part of a team and working on your own initiative.
- Able to respond effectively to changing priorities.
- Logical and systematic in work processes.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber Preferably experience in a general practice setting
Knowledge
Desirable
- Basic knowledge of current NHS Data Standards and Information Systems that apply within GP Practice and Primary Care.
- Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Knowledge of data management and IM&T techniques acquired.
- Knowledge of or an understanding of research in Primary Care which helps to promote positive outcome in wider health care organisations
Skills
Desirable
- Proficient in MS applications including Outlook, Access, Excel and Word and other related software packages.
- Ability to interrogate various databases and present statistical data in a variety of formats including clinical systems such as System One.
- Confident in working well with data and metrics to support the wider business needs of the Division.
- Ability to report on data extracted from the medical system
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).
