Job summary
The Esplanade Surgery are seeking a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our General Practice team. The Clinical Pharmacist will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of patients with chronic diseases, optimising medicines, improving patient outcomes, and contributing to the overall health and well-being of the community. Please note this is not a remote role.
Main duties of the job
The role of the clinical pharmacist in primary care is changing rapidly. The provision of a prescription is the single most common outcome from a consultation. Medicine monitoring and medicines safety has risen exponentially over recent years and combined with the complexity of those living with multiple long term conditions and frailty means clinical pharmacy is a core part of general practice.
Primary care needs to be ambitious to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital as well as ensuring that general practice remains resilient in their ability to provide the increasing range of services.
About us
The Esplanade Practice has now been established for over 60 years supporting the care of our patients across Ryde and the surrounding area. We support a population of c. 9000 patients from our Surgery on the Ryde seafront. The successful candidate will join our existing multidisciplinary team of GPs, ANPs, Paramedics Nurses and HCAs. We are a training practice supporting registrars, medical students, trainee pharmacists and paramedics.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The following describes the key responsibilities that the postholder will deliver and/or work towards delivering with supported and on-going development.
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.
Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The following describes the key responsibilities that the postholder will deliver and/or work towards delivering with supported and on-going development.
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.
Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit
Desirable
- Post registration experience
- Recent primary care or applicable experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with GPhC
- Masters in Pharmacy degree
Desirable
- Independent prescribing
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent
- Completion of the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)
Other
Essential
- Successful Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit
Desirable
- Post registration experience
- Recent primary care or applicable experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with GPhC
- Masters in Pharmacy degree
Desirable
- Independent prescribing
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent
- Completion of the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)
Other
Essential
- Successful Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
