Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Primary Care Careers
The closing date is 28 March 2025
Job summary
Sharnbrook Surgery in north Bedford are looking to welcome a senior clinical pharmacist to our team, on a part time basis for 16 hours a week. Our core hours are from 8am to 6.30pm, so the successful candidate will need to be able to work between these times and cover for holidays and sickness as required.
Working within an experienced multi-disciplinary team, this key role will seek to improve patients health outcomes by providing direct, accessible and timely clinical medicines.
Main duties of the job
- Review the ongoing medicine plan for patients with single or multiple problems where medicine optimisation is required (COPD/asthma).
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP.
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
- Provide a telephone helpline for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
- Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support including e-consultations, remote medication review and telehealth and telemedicine.
- Respond to medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams.
- Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive their medicine post-discharge.
About us
Sharnbrook Surgery is a rural dispensing GP surgery in the village of Sharnbrook in north Bedfordshire, with over 6000 patients. We aim to provide the highest quality healthcare to our patients. We commit to provide effective and efficient care in a sensitive, considerate and confidential manner. Our care delivery systems make the best use of all available resources.
Job description
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you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the
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Job description
Job responsibilities
If
you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the
attached job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- GPhC Independent Prescribing qualification or working towards attainment.
- Undertaking, completed or can demonstrate exemption from CPPEs primary care pharmacy education programme.
- Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience, or equivalent.
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA).
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Experience
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Evidence of an on-going commitment and undertaking of continuing professional development to maintain advanced theoretical and practical therapeutic knowledge.
- Undertaking, completed or can demonstrate exemption from CPPEs primary care pharmacy education programme.
Desirable
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in primary care working within a GP surgery is desirable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- GPhC Independent Prescribing qualification or working towards attainment.
- Undertaking, completed or can demonstrate exemption from CPPEs primary care pharmacy education programme.
- Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience, or equivalent.
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA).
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Experience
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Evidence of an on-going commitment and undertaking of continuing professional development to maintain advanced theoretical and practical therapeutic knowledge.
- Undertaking, completed or can demonstrate exemption from CPPEs primary care pharmacy education programme.
Desirable
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in primary care working within a GP surgery is desirable.
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).
