Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Stanford Le Hope & Corringham PCN have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic & innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network, on a full time basis for 37.5 hours per week. You will be required to travel between all 6 of the GP practices within our PCN.

Main duties of the job

• work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess & treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases, undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.

• provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both public health and social care needs of patients to address inequalities.

• provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) & quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality & outcomes framework and enhanced services. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste & promote self-care.
• develop relationships, work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs, the wider health & social care system.
• facilitate the delivery of the local enhanced services for medicines on behalf of the PCN.

About us

Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham PCN is situated in a scenic, semi-rural part of South West Essex, comprising six close knit GP surgeries. The successful candidate will join a team of not only GPs and nurses but existing clinical pharmacists, physiotherapists, physicians associates, paramedics and pharmacy technicians.

With teaching and dispensing member practices, there is a great opportunity for learning and further development. There is a wide scope of work from audits, chronic disease management, structured medication reviews, triaging minor ailments and managing poly-pharmacy in care homes. This post represents plenty to challenge and further develop an experienced clinical pharmacist who is ideally already a prescriber. This post is about integrating with an experienced team and we are looking for a team member to grow with our enthusiastic and innovative PCN.