Clinical Pharmacist - Sildsen Medical Practice

The role is an all-rounded, hands-on Clinical Pharmacist role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as effective communication, ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. The postholder will work in collaboration with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure pharmacist patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010., You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement. Duties will include:

· Medication reviews, computer based or clinics for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication

· Medication and treatment reconciliation - systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions

· Practice formulary maintain

· QOF - ensure data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits. Improve risk stratification of pathways and improve service delivery

· Medicine management e.g. polypharmacy

· Medicines optimisation, support joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience. Reducing waste and improving outcomes. Follow up identified patient groups targeting better concordance leading to improved outcomes

· Monitoring of long term meds e.g. lithium/amiodarone, shared care medications and blood results

· Monitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence

· Optimising medication/titration e.g. HF

· Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring)

· Manage patients with more complex long term conditions such as "difficult" hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy

· See patients with minor ailments, common conditions as routine/emergency appointments

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Modality Partnership AWC Division has a full-time vacancy for a Clinical Pharmacist. The postholder will be a high performing Pharmacist and will be responsible for providing pharmaceutical care to patients in a clinical setting, ensuring safe and effective medication use. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care., References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer., We require high performing team members to join our team with, Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent, Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber Preferably experience in a general practice setting.

Knowledge

Strong Math and Science Skills,

Excellent Memory

Detail-Oriented,

Solid Understanding of and Respect for Prescription Drug Laws and Regulations

Skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Exceptional attention to detail

High-level customer service knowledge

Computer skills including using specialist software

Strong numerical and mathematical skills

Diplomacy, discretion and the ability to manage sensitive situations effectively

Good problem-solving ability

Strong leadership and management skills

Personal Qualities

Demonstrable commitment to Continuous Professional Development

Flexible approach to work

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Effective time management skills to balance work and education requirements

Team player

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Flexible working

Wellbeing support and initiative

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