Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

We are looking for a part time clinical pharmacist to join our existing team, ideally for approximately 30 hours per week. This is a really interesting opportunity for a breadth of primary care experience as an Independent Prescriber, both within the Primary Care Network and also Hillfoot Surgery. This means you would get the opportunity to work across multiple primary care contracts all within one role (PCN DES, QoF, GPOP, IIF). The successful applicant will be employed by WLPCN Ltd but partially deployed to Hillfoot Surgery.

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:

• Management of long-term conditions
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Action acute prescription requests
• Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
• Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
• Undertaking clinical audit
• Developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost-effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial)

Main duties of the job

• Medication reviews
• Patient facing medicines support
• Medicine management at change of care setting
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients
• Signposting
• Repeat prescribing
• Information management
• Collaborative working
• Health & safety / risk management

Qualifications

• Prior completion of CPPE pathway
• Please see uploaded job description for full person specification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary

£50,000 to £60,000 a year depending on experience