Location
Basildon
Department
Langdon Hills Medical Practice
Advertising Salary
TBC
Function
Pharmacist
Careers Site Advertising End Date
12 May 2024
About the Role

Langdon Hills Medical Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to join our growing, dynamic four partner training practice in Basildon. The role is offered on a part-time basis for 20 hours per week. We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic and highly motivated practitioner who enjoys working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. 

The post holder will work within clinical competencies as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide expertise in medicines management as follows:

  • Provide structured medication reviews;
  • Manage long term conditions, medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, repeat authorisation and acute prescription requests.
  • Ensure that medicines management processes within the Practice are optimised to achieve highly effective, safe and patient centred prescribing.
  • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
  • Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
  • Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
  • Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
  • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
  • 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.

 

    About the Candidate
    You will be a qualified Clinical 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
    Langdon Hills Medical Centre are an innovative, well organised and forward-thinking GMS training practice.  We have a practice population of 14500 patients with a growing list size.  We have a supportive nursing and administrative team and use the SystmOne computer system.  We offer a competitive salary.
     
    For further information about this role, please contact: Mrs Marguerite Cutting (Practice Manager): [email protected].
     

    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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