Pharmacist

Job summary

Colchester Medical Practice PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network initially on a 2 year fixed term contract. You will be based at Parsons Heath Medical Centre but will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a full-time basis, although we are willing to discuss this on a part-time basis.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing & treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines & medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review & health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation & quality improvement;
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation & adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters;
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits & implementing change;
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;
• Reviewing daily pathology results & act on results.
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored & complied with;
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy & care or nursing homes, to ensure the safe transfer of care.

About us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN, delivering excellent care to over 40,000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery, Castle Gardens Medical Practice, Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new health and wellbeing hub, based at our Parsons Heath site.

The practice is well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester.

We offer:

• NHS pension scheme.
• Proper Pay -Living Wage Foundation Accredited.
• Eye-care vouchers.
• Health service discounts.
• Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity terms.
• Uniform provided for colleagues if required.
• Free use of Holly Health mental wellbeing app.
• Flexible working contracts available upon request.
• Excellent training opportunities and progression provided.