Job summary Wootton Vale and Shortstown Surgery are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to work on a full or part-time basis to join our teams working across both sites.
This is to cover a 12 month maternity contract commencing January 2025.
Main duties of the job Carry out structured medication reviews, long term condition clinics, ensuring medicines optimisation and offering medicine information services to patients and clinicians.
Work collaboratively with our healthcare team that includes pharmacists, GPs, specialist nurses as well as AHPs.
Assess patients, devising, implementing, and agreeing management plans, and following approved protocols as appropriate.
Make onward referrals to other agencies and members of multidisciplinary teams.Training on local services will be provided.
About us We are 2 practices who share the same clinical & management teams.
Our ethos is to embrace new ways of working & workforce development and we have been involved in numerous early adopter and NHS pilots developing roles.
We also work closely with our CCG in supporting quality & development in areas such as IT & medicines management.
The practices have a combined list size of 17,000.
The two practice lists vary greatly in terms of demographic and depravation scores, thus providing a diverse, interesting mix of clinical challenge and will therefore appeal to clinicians looking to broaden their range of exposure and experience.
The team comprises: GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, 2 nurses, women's healthcare specialist, HCA, clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technician, 2 care coordinators, business director, practice manager and 16 admin staff.
Job description Job responsibilities If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Masters degree MPharm.
Registered Pharmacist MRPharm.
Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent).
Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
Desirable Basic Life Support.
Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice.
Member of the RPS faculty.
Independent Prescribing qualification.
Experience Essential Ability to work autonomously in managing own blood results and prescriptions.
Minimum 2 years' experience of general practice and/or secondary care.
Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of medical conditions, treatments, and pharmacology.
Experience of supporting doctors in clinical decision making.
Ability to work autonomously within the scope of supervised practice.
Detailed knowledge of maintaining confidentiality and implementing data protection legislation requirements including information governance.