Clinical Prescribing PharmacistNHS

Job summary

As a Clinical Pharmacist in Surrey Heath the role will join the growing clinical pharmacy team and work within one or more nominated general practices as well as working as part of the PCN Care Homes Team to support the responsibilities and deliverables of Surrey Heath Primary Care Network (PCN). Initially, time will be planned on a rotational basis in order to build skill and competence across the portfolio and allocated to nominated practices and PCN Care Homes Team.

Surrey Heath Community Providers offer a 365 day, 52 week service delivery and as part of that we offer a 7 days a week from 0800 hrs 2000hrs service. So you may be required to work evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays as part of your normal working hours, as per the needs of the business. As such the role will be responsible for supporting the practice(s) in implementing effective medicines management within the practice, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating and managing change.

The role will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, spending time working directly in one or more nominated GP practice(s) and also spending time working in and supporting our care homes.

Within care homes, the post holder will be responsible for supporting the Primary Care Network (PCN) to implement the medicines optimisation requirements of the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service for enhancing health in care homes. In addition, the role will support other PCN medicines management responsibilities as required.

Main duties of the job

• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
• Risk stratification
• Unplanned hospital admissions
• Repeat Prescribing
• Telephone and Patient facing clinical support
• Medication review (including care homes and domiciliary medication reviews)
• Long term conditions clinics
• MDT meetings
• Service development
• Care Quality Commission compliance
• Public Health campaigns (Flu vaccinations and immunisations)
• Cost saving programmes
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients
• Information Management
• Medicines quality service improvement
• Training (Medicine optimisation for healthcare team)
• Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulator recommendations
• Medicine safety
• Activity recording and reporting
• Leadership
• COVID vaccination programme

Please refer to the attached job description for more detail regarding key responcibilities.

Job description

Please see Supporting Documents for the full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification.

About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Our services include Surrey Heath Primary Care Network, PRIMACY workflow management and Upper Gordon Road Surgery.

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.