Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Bury St Edmunds Primary Care Network (PCN) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our expanding multidisciplinary team on a full-time basis. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in improving patient care and medicines management across our practices.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage).
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and 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 and quality improvement.
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
• Processing specialist treatment letters.
• Supporting practice dispensary.
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change.
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics.
• Conducting, diabetic foot checks andNHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training.
• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need.
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, communitypharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care.

About us

Bury St Edmunds Primary Care Network consists of five surgeries and serves some 66,000 patients from the town and surrounding villages.

Our vision is to deliver the highest standards of care, with equality, dignity and respect, to our patient population. Our aim is to create a system where member practices work closely together in collaboration with health and social care, voluntary sector, community groups and local people, to deliver inclusive and personalised care.

Bury St Edmunds Primary Care Network is a growing PCN with already existing roles including, care coordinators, social prescribers, clinical pharmacists, paramedics, health and wellbeing coaches and pharmacist technicians that support GPs and other clinical teams to enhance patient services in the local community.

Why join us?

• Be part of a friendly and forward-thinking PCN dedicated to high-quality patient care.
• Join a supportive multidisciplinary team with opportunities for collaboration and learning.
• Access to NHS pension and staff benefits.
• Ongoing training and funded development opportunities, including independent prescribing

We can offer you:

• NHS pension scheme: The NHS pension scheme is a defined benefits scheme - 20% employer contribution;
• Eye-care vouchers;
• Health service discounts;
• Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE, with enhancements for long service.