Clinical Pharmacist

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our growing medicines management team at our busy surgery in the centre of Ely., The role will involve a mix of direct patient-facing work and supporting our clinical practice team(s). The details below, whilst not covering all of the areas of the role, provide a reasonable overview of what tasks would be expected to be undertaken:

• Contact patients by telephone or secure electronic means (eg, email via AskmyGP) and offer advice and support to patients who have questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
• Conduct face to face appointments with patients as required.
• Supporting our medicines management colleagues based at the surgery.
• Conducting medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
• Receive on-the-day referrals for patients needing advice and guidance, and referrals from Practice colleagues.
• Advise on management of common, minor, self-limiting ailments and advice on over the counter medications available.
• Provide education and training to Practice teams, Care Home teams, and patient groups on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and admissions to Care Homes.
• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines using clinical databases.
• Undertake clinical audits and analyse, interpret and present medicines data.
• Summarise and communicate key prescribing updates and medicines alerts.
• Support implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.
• Monitor Practice prescribing against the local dashboards.
  
  Ideally we are seeking a full-time pharmacist, but we are prepared to be flexible for the right candidate.
The ideal candidate would be expected to demonstrate the following characteristics:-
• To be able to organise, plan and prioritise workload on own initiative.
• To be able to work well under pressure, and meet agreed deadlines.
• To have excellent written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
• To identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• Be committed to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities.
• Be committed to engaging with organisational policies, including safe working practices, mandatory training and supervision and appraisal.
• Have the willingness to work flexibly when needs of service, or patients, require.
  
  We are based in our lovely, newly redeveloped premises in central Ely which was completed in the summer of 2023. We are a team of 3 Partners, 7 salaried GPs, 3 ANP/ACPs, 1 Clinical Nurse Manager, 12 Practice Nurses, 7 HCAs, supported by experienced Practice, Assistant Practice and IT managers alongside an excellent dispensary, referrals and patient services teams who recognise the pressures of the clinical team and work hard to support them.
We are very fortunate to have our PCN staff working with us and these include a physio, pharmacy technicians, social prescriber, health and well-being coaches and a drug and alcohol support worker. It is important to us as a Practice that we work in a supportive environment where we balance the need of providing excellent patient care with the wellbeing of our team. If this sounds interesting then we would love to hear from you!