Job summary
Modality Partnership East Surrey 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 Modality East Surrey Medical Practice 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. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £47,158 - £52,000 per annum WTE depending on experience.
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.
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 Family friendly policies
Flexible working
Wellbeing support and initiative
If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
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.
Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.
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.
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.
Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
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.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
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.
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.
Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
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.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent.
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent).
- Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Non-medical prescriber.
Skills
Essential
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- An understanding of general practice and challenges they currently face.
- An understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Good IT skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescribe.
- Experience in a broad range of healthcare settings including management and clinical pharmacy activities.
- Experience of audit, service evaluation and development.
- Validated experience in clinical specialism.
- Experience of collaborative working in multidisciplinary settings.
- Experience of operational management (even if only of an element of a service or when deputising).
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date clinical knowledge of pharmaceutical practice and specialist area.
- Leadership skills.
- Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to communicate complex information to patients and colleagues.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.
- Have the ability to work and travel across various settings within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post.
- Computer literate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent.
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent).
- Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Non-medical prescriber.
Skills
Essential
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- An understanding of general practice and challenges they currently face.
- An understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Good IT skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescribe.
- Experience in a broad range of healthcare settings including management and clinical pharmacy activities.
- Experience of audit, service evaluation and development.
- Validated experience in clinical specialism.
- Experience of collaborative working in multidisciplinary settings.
- Experience of operational management (even if only of an element of a service or when deputising).
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date clinical knowledge of pharmaceutical practice and specialist area.
- Leadership skills.
- Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to communicate complex information to patients and colleagues.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.
- Have the ability to work and travel across various settings within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post.
- Computer literate.
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).
