Job Details
Job Title: Primary Care – Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist
Annual Salary: Competitive – based on experience
Hours: Full Time/Part Time – up to 37.5 hours per week
Term: Permanent
Accountable To: Clinical Pharmacist and/or GP Clinical Supervisor
Location: Midsomer Norton/Radstock for 3 Valleys Health Primary Care Network
Overview
3 Valleys Health Primary Care Network is a group of 8 general practices covering circa 68k patients in rural and semi‑rural North‑East Somerset within easy commuting distance of Bath, Bristol and Wells.
We have a team of 10 Clinical Pharmacists and 7 Pharmacy Technicians embedded in practices and in a supportive peer group. We are expanding the Pharmacy team and have a vacancy in the Midsomer Norton/Radstock area.
Job Summary
The post holder is an experienced qualified pharmacist acting within their professional boundaries. Working within a multi‑disciplined team, they provide support for prescription and medication queries, support the repeat prescriptions system, manage acute prescription requests, conduct medicines reconciliation on transfer of care, and deliver clinical medicines advice to meet public and social care needs of patients in GP practices.
They will provide clinical leadership in medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services, and will work towards or utilize a non‑medical prescribing qualification.
The role collaborates with community and hospital pharmacy, promotes skill‑mix utilisation, improves patient outcomes, ensures better healthcare access, and helps manage workload. This pivotal role requires motivation, passion, and commitment to excellent service within general practice.
Main Duties/Skills
- Patient facing long‑term condition clinics
- Patient facing/telephone clinical medication review and support
- Patient facing care home/residential clinical medication reviews
- Management of common/minor/self‑limiting ailments
- Differential/undifferential diagnosis
- Medicine information to practice staff and patients
- Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
- Repeat prescribing
- Risk stratification
- Service development
- Information management
- Medicines Quality Improvement programmes
- Medicines safety
- Care Quality Commission Medicines Management guidance and leadership
- Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Education and training
Qualifications & Requirements
Successful candidates will be enrolled onto the PCPEP Primary Care Education Pathway and, if not already qualified, will complete an Independent Prescribing course and be mentored by a GP.
The post holder should be an experienced qualified pharmacist.
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