Job Description

Calling all clinical pharmacists!

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in general practice? Are you looking for an employer that will support your professional development?

East Basildon PCN is a Primary Care Network and are seeking a clinical pharmacist to join their team on a full-time basis, working Monday to Friday across 4 GP practices. We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist to join our well-established clinical practice pharmacy team, to work across our 4 clinical patient facing sites including Felmores Medical Centre, Aryan Medical Centre, Matching Green Surgery and Dr Sims and Partners.

What's the role?

You'll work with a highly-skilled, well supported and forward thinking clinical team. Essentially you will provide support for the management and development of prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and quality prescribing within unity. You will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy practice team working alongside pharmacists and pharmacy technicians reporting to the senior pharmacist. You will also be involved in processing Accurx queries from patients.
Main responsibilities will include;

Meet patients with single or multiple long term medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to the team for improvement in care. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the clinical team on prescribing and monitoring. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the team on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
We want to invest in our staff, so professional development is encouraged and supported. We will support you towards an independent prescribing qualification unless you are already an independent prescriber.

About the Candidate

To be considered for this role, you will have the following;

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices and good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills. Caring and empathetic nature. Enthusiastic, motivated and wanting to offer the very best up to date patient care. Work well as part of a team as well as independently. Be confident in new IT systems with supportive training. (Our PCN use SystmOne)
Essential:

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (Prescribing pharmacist preferred). Minimum of 2 years working as a clinical pharmacist. Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care Excellent communication skills. Strong IT skills. Competent use of Office and Outlook. Ability to work as a team.
Not essential / Preferred:

CPPE pathway completion. Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care. Qualified independent prescriber

About Us

East Basildon Primary Care Network, comprises Felmores Medical Centre, Aryan Medical Centre, Matching Green Surgery and Dr Sims and Partners. We have a patient population of approximately 27,000 and all practices work on SystmOne.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Pay: TBC (subject to experience and qualifications)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 49,000.00-60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:

Basildon SS13 1PN: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:

Clinical pharmacy: 2 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (required)
Location:

Basildon SS13 1PN (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: clinical-pharmacist-east-basildon-pcn