About this role
Job summary The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, toplay a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on afull-time basis although part time hours may be considered for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home Manage a caseload of complex patients, as appropriate Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team Review medications for newly registered patients Encourage cost-effective prescribing. Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system. Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
About us
The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is a friendly two site GP practice with a patient list size of approx 13,800. The practice is made up of 6 x GP Partners, 8 x salaried GP's, 1 x Senior Clinical Pharmacist, 2 x Advanced Nurse practitioners, 1 x Nurse prescriber (supported by a team of RGN's and HCA's). We also have a visiting paramedic, pharmacy technician and first contact physio service provided by BSE PCN. We are an accredited GP training practice and our clinical system is SystmOne.
Benefits: NHS pension scheme.
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
GPhC registered pharmacist Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
Experience Essential
Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care
Desirable
Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
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).
Employer details Employer name Primary Care Careers
Address Lower Baxter Street
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP33 1ET
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)