Grovelands Medical Centre are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist with General Practice experience to work closely with our practice teams – to deliver our pharmacy vision, delivering excellent pharmacy-led services for patients registered with the practice. Experience in General Practice is essential.

We are most interested in candidates with:

• Up-to-date clinical knowledge, a thorough understanding of primary care prescribing, medication reviews, experience of designing and implementing strategies for improving prescribing.
• To uphold the NHS commitment to addressing health inequalities and be involved in ensuring care is available to people from all communities.
• The ability to recognise their personal limitations and boundaries, to understand those of their colleagues, and refer to other colleagues when necessary.
• The ability to thrive when working in a devolved, flexible, autonomous environment.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to:

• Deal with the repeat prescription system, acute prescription requests, management of medicines on transfer of care: discharge letters, treatment advice notes and medicines reconciliation.
• Provide telephone clinics for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
• Perform structured medication reviews, manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Work with the practice in enabling them to develop and apply systems for safer prescribing.
• Develop good relationships between local community pharmacies, and the PCN pharmacy team.
• Involvement with periodic meetings for identifying and reviewing prescribing and patient safety issues.
• Involvement in the Prescribing Quality Scheme, PINCER and QOF aspects for prescribing and audits.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration and conduct periodic care home visits to help achieve this.
• To work efficiently with other members of the pharmacy team, clinicians, and the admin team.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

• Experience within General Practice is essential.
• Independent Prescribing Qualification is desirable.

We encourage daily morning coffee breaks to allow for catch up with colleagues at 11am.

You will be joining our friendly, dynamic team of 7 Partners from diverse backgrounds, approximately 14,000 patients, we are an Emis Web practice with a full range of enhanced services.

• Full time hours (37.5 hours a week) Some flexibility for right candidate.
• Salary negotiable and dependent on previous experience.
• NHS Pension
• Onsite parking

Any questions and informal visit welcomed, please contact our Practice Manager.

Applications to be sent to our Practice Manager

Email: grovelands.admin@nhs.net