Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

Blacketts Medical Practice in Darlington is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, forward-thinking Clinical Pharmacist to join our team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out a mixture of face to face and telephone reviews with patients as well as answering GP queries and managing medicines optimisation. The post holder will also mentor trainee pharmacists, whilst overseeing and supporting them with tasks such as repeat / acute prescriptions and medicines reconciliation.

Job description

Mentor trainee pharmacist, less experienced staff and be involved in GP trainee teaching.

Provide telephone appointments for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Design, develop and implement computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Take a lead on medicines optimisation for the practice.

Review patient requests for repeat prescriptions, review medicines reaching review dates.

Ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required and review and file test results.

Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Ensure patients are switched to the most cost effective medication.

Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, other staff and patients.

The post holder will be expected to:

be responsible for maintaining registration as a pharmacist and complying with appropriate professional codes.

keep up to date with medical / therapeutic evidence and opinion, local and national services, legislation and policy developments.

attend local, regional and national meetings and training courses of relevance.

comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal opportunities and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance).

About us

We are a successful practice with a list size of around 11,500 patients. We have 5 partners and 2 salaried doctors, an excellent nursing team and a stable, friendly and efficient administration team. We score highly for QOF and were rated "good" in our last CQC inspection. We are a SystmOne practice.

We have spacious purpose-built premises in the centre of Darlington, which also houses private physiotherapy and chiropody services. Our space means that we are able to provide rooms for social prescribers and mental health workers, which enables us to work closely with them to provide excellent patient care.