Clinical Prescribing PharmacistNHS

Job summary

Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our practice team. The position is part-time for three days a week - ideally Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a patient-facing role within general practice, supporting medicines optimisation, improving patient outcomes and contributing to high quality care.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters;
• Supporting practice dispensary;
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.

Job description

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

About us

We are a large practice based over two sites (just one mile apart) which are Valley View Health Centre and Cuffley Village Surgery - collectively known as Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice. We provide care to over 13,500 patients. We have a happy, established team that consists of GPs, nurses and HCAs who are all supported by an experienced and organised admin team. We are also joined regularly and supported by colleagues from our PCN. We use Ardens templates, Accurx and SystmOne.