Clinical Pharmacist

Are you an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, who is proactive, enthusiastic and looking for a positive challenge and an opportunity to provide service in an area where patients need it the most? Then this could be the role for you.

This role will report to the Clinical Lead and Practice Manager, working alongside a brilliant team of Doctors, ANPs, Nurses and Administrative staff who deliver great healthcare to our patients.

Main duties of the job

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (eg, those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes)

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review to the GP. Monitor and manage patients with polypharmacy

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration

Hawthorn is based in on Birchfield Road in Central Manchester area and has a patient list of 6500 and a busy walk in service. We serve a diverse population of patients with a generally younger age profile than the national average.

As a team we are passionate about the NHS being the best where it is needed the most and delivering healthcare that can transform our community. We are relatively young team who work hard, look after each other and enjoy work.

Hawthorn is part of the Hope Citadel CIC, a proper not for profit organisation set up believing the NHS can be the best where it is needed most. Hope Citadel runs several practices and there is great support given from your peer group of fellow clinicians and senior staff.