Primary Care Pharmacist – St Andrews Surgery
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St. Andrews Surgery
1 De Winton Street
Tonypandy
Mid Glamorgan
CF40 2QZ
Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist
Responsible to: Practice Manager/GP’s
Hours: Part/Full Time – to be discussed with suitable candidates
Wage - Negotiable
Job Description
The post-holder is an experienced pharmacist*, who acts within their professional boundaries working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post-holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice, managing a caseload for patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments 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 comorbidities.
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 of 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 welcome applications/interest from newly qualified Pharmacists as well. Full support and in house training will be provided for all aspects of Pharmacist work in General Practice)
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