Advanced Primary Care Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join the Pharmacy team at HMP & YOI Parc. This unique setting combines elements of Primary Care, Hospital and Community pharmacy. This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop a person-centred care pharmacist service whilst also enhancing your clinical experience in a unique setting. The post holder will work within the Pharmacy team and will work closely with the primary care multi-disciplinary team, including GPs, nurses, and Psychiatrists to ensure safe and effective prescribing. This role involves working with patients with long term conditions, mental health problems, and substance misuse problems. This is a challenging but rewards role for an individual who is an excellent communicator, confident and able to exercise strong leadership and management skills to deliver a pharmacy service across Primary Care, Integrated Substance Misuse and Mental Health Services. The post holder will also be required to work alongside colleagues within the wider Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board in order to support optimisation of patient care, safe transfer and coordination of care, and development of pharmacy service delivery at HMP & YOI Parc.

Independent prescribing is desirable but is not an essential pre-requisite for this role. However, the successful applicant must be willing to undertake the independent prescribing qualification if not already achieved., An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacist to work with the primary care teams at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. The successful applicant will work in practices in the North cluster of Bridgend locality. The role will involve provision of medicines optimisation support and advice to the designated GP practices in the locality. If you thrive on providing expert advice on medicines, addressing polypharmacy and complex clinical medication reviews closer to the patient's home environment, then this is the role for you. In addition to using your clinical skills at the selected GP practices, there will be opportunities to contribute to the community MDTs. You should have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with other Health Care Professionals and primary care staff. The pharmacy team is both ambitious and motivated, focusing our work around the best interests of our patients and continually striving to improve our services. We have a strong reputation for supporting professional development alongside the RPS advanced practice portfolio. The Medicines Management team will provide you with support to integrate into the practices and teams. There will be opportunities for both full time and part time working. We are looking to recruit at an 8a level. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve