Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Walton Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist to join their growing team for a 12 month fixed term contract. The role is offered on a part-time basis for 16 hours, however different hours will be considered.

Walton Medical Practice is situated in the traditional seaside resort of Walton on the Naze, on the Essex Coast. They have a list size of just over 8300 patients. As well as 2 GP Partners and a salaried GP, the Practice team includes a clinical pharmacy team of 2, a nursing team of 10 and an efficient and effective reception and administrative team of 18.

Main duties of the job

• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become prescribers.
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines.
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare.
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people Network contract DES: , liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

We reserve the right to retract the advert if a suitable person is found before the end date.

About us

The Colte Partnership is very much At The Heart of Primary Care, being the largest GP Partnership in North East Essex; comprised of 8 local GP practices across Colchester and Tendring. We care for approx. 80,000 patients. Our Head Office is in Feering.

We pride ourselves on working to be at the forefront of Primary Care in our region and have many exciting ventures on the horizon.

Each of our branches has its own character, and family friendly ethos, which is why our patients love coming to us (and tell us so in our regular patient surveys). However, being a large partnership means we can offer so much more than a local branch can by itself with specialist clinics, social prescribing and innovative support such as regular dementia cafes, armed forces support and even child first aid classes for parents.

We strive to look after our employees as well, with generous annual leave, flexible and family friendly working, and support during difficult times such as free counselling.

We also work as a collaborative Primary Care Networks (PCNs) which span across Colchester and Tendring.