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Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

Langdon Hills Medical Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to join our growing, dynamic four partner training practice in Basildon. The role is offered on a part-time basis for 20 hours per week. We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic and highly motivated practitioner who enjoys working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

    Main duties of the job

    The post holder will work within clinical competencies as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide expertise in medicines management as follows:

    • Provide structured medication reviews;
    • Manage long term conditions, medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, repeat authorisation and acute prescription requests.
    • Ensure that medicines management processes within the Practice are optimised to achieve highly effective, safe and patient centred prescribing.
    • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
    • Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
    • Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
    • Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
    • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetesand COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
    • Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research withmedicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
    • Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinicalsupervision.

    About us

    Langdon Hills Medical Centre are an innovative, well organised and forward-thinking GMS training practice. We have a practice population of14500 patients with a growing list size. We have a supportive nursing and administrative team and use the SystmOne computer system. We offer a competitive salary.

    For further information about this role, please contact: Mrs Marguerite Cutting (Practice Manager): practice.managery03052@nhs.net.

    Details

    Date posted

    07 May 2024

    Pay scheme

    Other

    Salary

    Depending on experience dependent on experience

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Part-time

    Reference number

    7470

    Job locations

    Nightingales

    Langdon Hills

    Basildon

    Essex

    SS16 6SA


    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

        Person Specification

        Qualifications

        Essential

        • Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
        • Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
        • Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
        • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);

        Experience

        Essential

        • Strong experience in primary care;
        • Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
        • Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
        • Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
        • Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
        • Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
        • Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
        • Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
        • Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
        • Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
        • Understand the need for patient confidentiality.
        Person Specification

        Qualifications

        Essential

        • Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
        • Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
        • Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
        • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);

        Experience

        Essential

        • Strong experience in primary care;
        • Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
        • Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
        • Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
        • Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
        • Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
        • Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
        • Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
        • Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
        • Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
        • Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

        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

        Primary Care Careers

        Address

        Nightingales

        Langdon Hills

        Basildon

        Essex

        SS16 6SA


        Employer's website

        https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

        Employer details

        Employer name

        Primary Care Careers

        Address

        Nightingales

        Langdon Hills

        Basildon

        Essex

        SS16 6SA


        Employer's website

        https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

        Employer contact details

        For questions about the job, contact:

        Recruitment Team

        Langdon Hills Medical Practice

        enquiries@eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk

        01206918760

        Details

        Date posted

        07 May 2024

        Pay scheme

        Other

        Salary

        Depending on experience dependent on experience

        Contract

        Permanent

        Working pattern

        Part-time

        Reference number

        7470

        Job locations

        Nightingales

        Langdon Hills

        Basildon

        Essex

        SS16 6SA


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