Pharmacist

Job summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester are looking to recruit a clinical pharmacist to join our supportive clinical team on a full or part-time basis. Hours can be discussed at interview.

The pharmacist will work as part of a multidisciplinary team along with fellow pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. In a patient-facing role, the pharmacist will clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

As a pharmacist, you will be entrusted with significant autonomy within your professional boundaries. Your role will be to provide crucial support to the GPs and the repeat prescribing team in all medicine management matters, to implement effective medicine management within the practice, and to identify areas for improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Structured medication reviews and optimisation.
• Enhanced health in care homes service.
• Anticipatory care.
• Personalised care.
• Supporting early cancer diagnosis.
• Cardiovascular disease prevention and diagnosis.
• Tackling inequalities locally.

About us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a long-established, award-winning, forward-thinking GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester, Essex.

We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,000 patients. We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award-winning team of mental health workers.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary.
• 5 weeks annual leave. (pr0-rata)
• Company pension.
• On-site parking.
• Bike rack.
• Shower.
• Easy access to A12 to London and Ipswich.