Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Calling all clinical pharmacists!

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a different in general practice? Are you looking for a flexible employer that will support your professional development?

We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist to join our well-established clinical practice pharmacy team, to work across our clinical patient facing sites including Haverhill, Long Melford and Lavenham. This includes working from our centralised hub in Haverhill, where most of the clinical workload is triaged with telephone and virtual consultations. This role is offered on a full or part-time basis, Monday to Friday with the possibility of some homeworking.

What's the role?

• You'll work with a highly-skilled, well supported and forward thinking clinical team.
• Essentially you will provide support for the management and development of prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and quality prescribing within Unity.
• You will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy practice team working alongside pharmacists and pharmacy technicians reporting to the senior pharmacist.
• You will also be involved in processing Econsult queries from patients.

We have a team of 4 clinical pharmacists, 4 pharmacy technicians, 1 pre-registration pharmacy technician and 2 medicines care coordinators.

We want to invest in our staff, so professional development is encouraged and supported. We will support you towards, an independent prescribing qualification unless already an independent prescriber.

Main duties of the job

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices and good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Caring and empathetic nature.
• Enthusiastic, motivated and wanting to offer the very best up to date patient care.
• Work well as part of a team as well as independently.
• Be confident on new IT systems with supportive training.

About us

Unity Healthcare is run by Suffolk GP Federation. We are a not-for-profit, community interest company and our main purpose is to support Primary Care across Suffolk, including support with working collaboratively and at scale. We also deliver a portfolio of NHS services across Suffolk and North East Essex, including Podiatry, Ultrasound, Diabetes, as well as Urgent Care Services including the Out of Hours face-to-face Service in Suffolk.

What we offer;

• A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance.
• Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard.
• A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that get it.
• Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and no wait responses.
• A commitment to personal development, training, and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Death in service cover.
• Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking.
• 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years service.
• Blue light card employer - Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street.

Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Get in touch with our senior pharmacist, David Strobridge-Smith: David.S-Smith@suffolkfed.org.uk- we'd love to hear from you.