Clinical Pharmacist
Primary Care Careers
The closing date is 31 May 2025
Job summary
Holbrook and Shotley Practice are looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a part-time basis - hours are negotiable - from 1 day per week upwards. We are flexible and look forward to hearing from you.
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.
- Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, 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, for all medication related queries.
- Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change.
- Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics.
- Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks & NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training.
- Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, & end-of-life patients.
- Reviewing daily pathology results & act on results.
- Undertaking minor ailments triage & directing patients, based on clinical need.
- Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework.
About us
The Holbrook and Shotley Practice is a GP Practice across two surgery sites. We pride ourselves on providing a high standard of care to our 8000 patients. Our practice team comprises of three GP Partners, two salaried GP, supported by a highly experienced team of nurses, dispensers, paramedic, clinical pharmacist and the reception team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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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).
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
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).
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 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.
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).
