Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Queens Park Surgery in Bedford is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role as part of the practice multi-disciplinary team. We are flexible and will consider part or full time hours to suit the successful applicant.

We can offer you:

• SystmOne clinical system
• Rated Good by CQC
• High QOF achievers
• Friendly nursing and administrative support
• Development of special interests encouraged
• Training supported
• Attractive salary and terms and conditions
• 6 months mutual assessment period

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (i.e. side-effects, dosage) across the practice.
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review, and health education advice, to patients at the designated practices by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice.
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
• Processing specialist treatment letters.
• Supporting practice dispensary.
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
• Acting as a key contact in the practice, for all medication related queries.
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change.

About us

We are a very long-established practice working on two sites in Bedford, looking after 12,500 patients. We are also care taking another local practice in Bedford with a list size of 9,000 patients. Bedfordshire is a great location and has a reputation for excellent schools, beautiful villages and countryside, close to Milton Keynes for shopping, and 35 minutes from London by train.

We are active members of our primary care network and we welcome collaborative working. Our vision is progressive, we are actively looking for new opportunities and are aspiring to be a training practice. We grow our own staff and are developing advanced nurse practitioners and healthcare support workers.

Our ethos at Queens Park Group Surgery is teamwork and we are incredibly proud of the culture we have developed which encourages personal and professional development. We love the fact that staff members join our team and stay with us, and we know the importance of supporting our staff to develop their careers. For example, one of our receptionists progressed first to an HCA role and is now working to become a nursing associate through the NA apprenticeship route.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or wish to have an informal discussion about the role - jen.gough@nhs.net or come and see us on our website: queensparksurgery.co.uk