Clinical Pharmacist

Holly Tree Surgery

The closing date is 02 January 2025

Job summary

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive prescribing Clinical Pharmacist to join us. You will join an established, multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering high quality medicines management and clinical pharmacy input to our patients.

Job Purpose

Provide medication review services to patients via clinics in the practice, and residential and nursing homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.

Assist partners with the appropriate monitoring and management of their prescribing budgets.

Prepare evidence-based resources and information to support the medicine management team and all other relevant health professionals in the implementation of rational cost-effective prescribing.

Help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing.

Main duties of the job

Provide medication review services to patients

Appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing budgets.

To provide regular support and feedback on prescribing action plans

To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems

Advise the primary health care team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines

To oversee prescriptions registers

To be responsible for the updating of all PGDs

To action all alerts

To be the lead in the practice for PQS

Do authorise daily EPS Request

Do respond to daily medication queries from patients

Do administer daily Docman tasks

About us

Holly Tree Surgery is a GP Practice with 6200 patients situated on the outskirts of Farnham in Surrey, The practice has been serving the local community and situated on Boundstone Road since before the second world war, and has been located in its current location since 1963, and the purpose-built building since 1993. The practice aims to provide great clinical care to their patients within a supportive, sustainable environment for the team. This is dispensing practice, and is part of the larger Frimley CCG

Date posted

02 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£30 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A2463-24-0005

Job locations

42 Boundstone Road

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

GU10 4TG


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Help the practice deliver on the QIPP and QOF
  • Work with doctors and patients to address medicine adherence, reducing the wastage and overuse of medicines
  • Monitor patients’ blood results, focusing on potential harm that can come from long-term use of medicines or poor compliance
  • Review patients on complex medicine regimens/ with ongoing health problems
  • Support doctors by highlighting changes in NICE guidelines
  • Triage and manage common ailments
  • Take part in multi-disciplinary case reviews
  • Deal with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues
  • Work with the practice team to deliver repeat prescription reviews, especially for care home residents, people prescribed polypharmacy and frail older people
  • Look at how best practice is integrated into care processes and improve the quality of patient care, ensuring patient safety
  • Manage and prescribe for long term condition patients

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Help the practice deliver on the QIPP and QOF
  • Work with doctors and patients to address medicine adherence, reducing the wastage and overuse of medicines
  • Monitor patients’ blood results, focusing on potential harm that can come from long-term use of medicines or poor compliance
  • Review patients on complex medicine regimens/ with ongoing health problems
  • Support doctors by highlighting changes in NICE guidelines
  • Triage and manage common ailments
  • Take part in multi-disciplinary case reviews
  • Deal with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues
  • Work with the practice team to deliver repeat prescription reviews, especially for care home residents, people prescribed polypharmacy and frail older people
  • Look at how best practice is integrated into care processes and improve the quality of patient care, ensuring patient safety
  • Manage and prescribe for long term condition patients

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
  • Must hold an independent prescribing qualification
  • May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
  • Must hold an independent prescribing qualification
  • May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Holly Tree Surgery

Address

42 Boundstone Road

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

GU10 4TG


Employer's website

https://www.hollytreesurgery.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Holly Tree Surgery

Address

42 Boundstone Road

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

GU10 4TG


Employer's website

https://www.hollytreesurgery.com (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Louise Upton

reception.hollytree@nhs.net

01252793183

Date posted

02 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£30 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A2463-24-0005

Job locations

42 Boundstone Road

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

GU10 4TG


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