Job Description

Job Overview

Modality East Surrey Medical Practice Horley has a part/full-time vacancy for a Pharmacist / Prescribing Pharmacist at both Birchwood and Townhill Practices. The postholder will be a high-performing Pharmacist delivering a high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy service and providing targeted medication reviews to ensure safe, optimum and cost-effective treatments for East Surrey Modality 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.

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 Pharmacist / 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.

Overview of your organisation

Modality East Surrey Medical Practice is part of the wider Modality Partnership, one of the UK's largest GP super-partnerships, caring for over 470,000 patients with more than 1,500 colleagues nationwide.

Locally, our East Surrey division brings together three sites, serving a combined list of 39,000 patients with the support of a strong leadership team of 14 GP partners. We are proud of our established clinical pharmacy team - already comprising four pharmacists and two technicians - and we are continuing to grow our workforce to meet the needs of our patients.

We combine the best of both worlds

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The personal, community focus of a local practice.

The strength, resilience, and innovation of a national partnership network.

What we offer

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A thriving, multi-disciplinary team where your skills and ideas will shape the future of primary care.

Opportunities to learn, grow, and progress with access to national training pathways and shared expertise across Modality.

CARE values - Commitment, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence - embedded in everything we do.

A supportive working environment, with flexible working, generous NHS pension, wellbeing support, and career development opportunities.

At Modality East Surrey, you won't just be filling a role - you'll be joining a team that is ambitious, innovative, and committed to making a difference for patients, colleagues, and the NHS.

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.

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:

What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent

Master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)

Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Evidence of continuing professional development

Non-medical prescriber

Experience

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

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

Skills

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

Qualifications -

Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent

Experience

- Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber Preferably experience in a general practice setting

*Salary is WTE

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 47,158.00-52,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person