About the Role

Old Harlow Health Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full time basis.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas
Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage)
Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement
Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes
Processing specialist treatment letters
Processing hospital medication discharge letters
Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change
Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics
Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients
Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework
Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with
Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients
Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the ECF (Local Enhanced Service)
Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists
Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision
Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues
Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews
Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within the practice

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

About Us

Due to retirement the Old Harlow Health Centre has an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Practice, currently looking after 12,000 patients in the heart of Old Harlow.

The Practice comprises of 5 GP Partners, all being GP Trainers, 3 salaried GP's and a fluctuating number of GP Registrars. Supported by the nursing team. The Practice also employs FCP's and hosts other healthcare professionals in providing holistic care.

NHS pension scheme
Remote working possible for some of the hours
Annual leave: minimum 30 days

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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