Clinical Pharmacist – Fakenham Medical Practice
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Salary – to be confirmed depending on experience and qualifications.
Hours – negotiable up to 37 hours per week.
Closing date – 6 Sep 19.
The Fakenham Medical Practice, is an eleven-doctor dispensing practice providing care to around 15,000 patients in and around Fakenham in North Norfolk. We are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our established clinical team being an additional resource working in collaboration with other members of the Multidisciplinary team.
This role will be employed by the Practice and not a Primary Care Network.
The successful applicant will be an experienced pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
The post holder will use advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice. The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
We work from modern, purpose-built premises. The Partners and staff have a shared belief in the delivery of high quality, traditional personal family healthcare. Patients’ interests are kept very much to the fore and there is a strong commitment to develop patient services. To promote a multi-disciplinary team approach, we share our premises with other providers including a pharmacy, adult social services and local community services e.g. physiotherapy and midwifery.
If you have the skills we seek, take a pride in your role, have an eye for detail and a flexible yet committed approach to work and enjoy working as part of a team, we would like to hear from you.
