Job summary
Calling all Clinical Pharmacists!
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a different in general practice? Are you looking for a flexible employer that will support your professional development?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist to join our well-established Clinical Practice Pharmacy Team, working across our clinical patient facing sites including Haverhill, Long Melford and Lavenham as well as from our centralised Hub in Haverhill, where most of the clinical workload is triaged with telephone and virtual consultations.
The Clinical Pharmacy Team is highly appreciated by our wider multi-disciplinary team covering patient cohort of over twenty-four thousand. There are clear benefits to the patients, GPs, the multi-disciplinary team, and the wider practice team.
We have a team of: 4 Clinical Pharmacists, 4 Pharmacy Technicians, 1 pre-registration pharmacy technician & 2 medicines care coordinators, supported by a Senior clinical Pharmacist.
We want to invest in our staff, so professional development is encouraged and supported. We will support you towards, an Independent Prescribing qualification unless already an independent prescriber.
Main duties of the job
- 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 Econsult queries from patients.
About us
Suffolk GP Federation CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company. Our main purpose is to support Primary Care across Suffolk including support with working collaboratively and at scale. We also deliver a portfolio of NHS services across Suffolk and North East Essex, including Podiatry, Ultrasound, Diabetes, as well as urgent Care Services including the Out of Hours face-to-face Service in Suffolk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We will make sure you are fully inducted and trained. Its important to us that you feel safe and supported in your role.
- You'd be suited to this role if you have a caring and empathetic nature
- The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- You will also need to have an appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices and good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, motivated and wanting to offer the very best up to date patient care
- Its important that you can work well as part of a team as well as independently
- You'll need to be able to pick up new IT systems with supportive training
What we can offer you:
- Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
- A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that get it
- Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and no wait responses
- A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
- Blue light card employer Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street
Job description
Job responsibilities
We will make sure you are fully inducted and trained. Its important to us that you feel safe and supported in your role.
- You'd be suited to this role if you have a caring and empathetic nature
- The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- You will also need to have an appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices and good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, motivated and wanting to offer the very best up to date patient care
- Its important that you can work well as part of a team as well as independently
- You'll need to be able to pick up new IT systems with supportive training
What we can offer you:
- Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
- A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that get it
- Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and no wait responses
- A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
- Blue light card employer Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street
Person Specification
See supporting documents
Essential
- The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Prescribing qualification.
Person Specification
See supporting documents
Essential
- The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Prescribing 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).
