Clinical Pharmacist VacancyNHS
Job summary
Oakham Medical Practice and Market Overton and Somerby Surgeries have the exciting opportunity to recruit a Practice Pharmacist.
Applications are warmly welcome from Pharmacists at any stage in their career. We can provide a stable and supportive background for newly qualified Pharmacists and those in their first 5 years or equally the opportunity to grow and develop if you have more experience. The role will be based across the three Practices, with flexibility to work from home (hybrid).
We are a dynamic, creative and forward thinking Partner led team, training practice for GPST1-GPST3s and have supported numerous ACPs and Pharmacists throughout their training. This new role will be integral to our medicines management team and involve working to provide a safe medication service as well as innovatively managing our patients with long term conditions as part of our multi-disciplinary team.
The Practice uses SystmOne and operates Monday to Friday.
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner, within their professional boundaries, as part of the Practice multidisciplinary team. They will be supported by the Partners and Lead Pharmacist.
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.
Job description
To work as an autonomous practitioner within their professional boundaries as part of the Practice Multidisciplinary Team. They will be supported by the Partners and Lead Pharmacist.
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.
Responsibilities
Reauthorise repeat prescribing by reviewing patient requests, medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those in need of a review.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place.
Provide telephone advice or face to face clinics to patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and acute medication requests.
Reconcile medicines from clinical letters and following discharge from hospitals, identifying and rectifying any changes.
Work with patients face-to-face or on the telephone who have multiple medical conditions where medicine optimisation is required and review the on-going need for each medication i.e. Long Term Conditions.
Undertake clinical medication reviews, including structured medication reviews, with patients.
Answer relevant medication related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams, hospitals, District Nurses and community Pharmacies.
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and ICB, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the Practice Team.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Work with the Team to ensure the Practice is compliant with CQC standards.
About us
Oakham Medical Practice is based in a thriving market town in the beautiful county of Rutland. Market Overton is a picturesque village in the North of Rutland with a branch surgery in the village of Somerby just across the border in Leicestershire. The Practices serve 20000 patients as well as providing medical cover for the local public school in Oakham.
We are part of Rutland Health PCN and work collaboratively and effectively with our local partners in general practice, the community and social care.
Rutland is consistently voted in the top 3 best places to live in the UK. Local leisure pursuits are plentiful and schooling is highly regarded in both the local state and private sector.