Location
Harlow
Department
The Ross Practice
Advertising Salary
£45,000- £49,000pa DOE
Function
Pharmacist
Careers Site Advertising End Date
27 Jan 2025
Vacancy
7963
About the Role
Harlow South PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network, on a full time basis for 37.5 hours per week, based at The Ross Practice.
 
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.
  • Providing pharmaceutical medication review & health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review.
  • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement..
  • Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
  • Supporting improvements in clinical care, through audits & implementing change.
  • Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
  • Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, & end-of-life patients.
  • Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
  • Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework.
  • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with.
  • Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
  • Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
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..

About Us
We are a friendly, supportive, democratic, well organised and enthusiastic Primary Care Network, based in a new purpose-built single site health centre in Harlow, with easy access to M11/M25, close to London and Stansted and attractive Essex and Hertfordshire countryside, with excellent schools.
 
The PCN has 40,000+, patients from three practices. Lister Medical Centre based at Lister House, Staple Tye, The Ross Practice and The Hamilton Practice based at Keats House, Bush Fair.
 
We have an innovative team structure, including social prescribers, care coordinators, clinical pharmacists, GP assistants and advance practitioners. We are a training hub, supporting learning and development & use SystmOne clinical system.
 
 
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.
Apply Now

Other jobs like this

Similar

Clinical Pharmacist

More Info

Latest

Patient Co-ordinator

More Info

Latest

Patient Co-ordinator

More Info