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Form of workClinical Pharmacist
Salary: AfC 7 – 8a – Pay can be negotiated in accordance with experience and qualifications
We wish to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist to join Sarum North PCN covering the Amesbury Area. You will be working within a practice pharmacy team and as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team. You will enjoy the potential to grow in the role.
You will be based within Barcroft Medical Centre working with a pharmacy technician and prescribing clerks. Within our PCN we have 2 pharmacists and 1 pharmacy technician who each cover one practice; and we have a PT who works across the whole area. We support shared and mutual learning. You will enjoy 6 weeks holiday plus study leave (pro rata if part-time).
Main duties of the job
o Can clinically assess and treat patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific
disease areas
o Be a prescriber, or undertake the training to become a prescriber
o Undertake clinical medication reviews (especially for patients with chronic diseases) and to proactively manage complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities and people with learning disabilities or autism.
o Optimise medicine use, including antimicrobial stewardship guidance and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the QOF
o Undertake medication reviews, reducing waste and promoting selfcare
o Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy to help improve patient outcomes
o Support with production of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning disabilities), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
About us
Our PCN is a collaborative group of GPs. Our patient groups include armed forces families and many people of Nepalese origin. We have ambitious but pragmatic ideas about the delivery of community healthcare, and a history of successfully working together as a locality. Between us, we boast five GP trainers plus additional educators for medical students.
We are: –
· Barcroft Medical Centre, Amesbury
· St Melor House Surgery, Amesbury
· The Castle Practice, Ludgershall with a large branch in Tidworth
Our CQC ratings are Good, and we achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework standards each year. Our teams are multi-disciplinary – comprising GPs, practice nurses, health care assistants, the pharmacy team, social prescribing, with administrative and IT support. We operate an open culture and multi-disciplinary meetings to ensure constant learning and improvement.
To be appointed to this role it is essential that you:
Must be enrolled in, or have qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips the Clinical Pharmacist to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist training pathways).
Have previous NHS experience, especially in Primary Care / GP practice is invaluable.
You must have the right to work in the UK and have a full and clean UK Driving licence.
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.
Please submit C.V. to bswicb.sarumnorthpcn@nhs.net
Closing date 22nd March
