clinical pharmacist

Colne Medical Centre is currently looking to recruit an experienced clinical pharmacist to join their growing team. The role is full time, however part time hours will be considered.
The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;


• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);


• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;


• Processing specialist treatment letters;


• Supporting practice dispensary;


• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;


• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;


• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;


• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;


• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.


• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;


• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues.
  
  You will be a qualified 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.
  
  The Colte Partnership is very much 'at the heart of primary care', being the largest GP partnership in North East Essex; comprised of 9 local GP practices across Colchester and Tendring. We care for approx. 98,000 patients. Our head office is in Feering.


We pride ourselves on working to be at the forefront of primary care in our region, and have many exciting ventures on the horizon.

Each of our branches has its own character, and family friendly ethos, which is why our patients love coming to us (and tell us so in our regular patient surveys). However, being a large partnership means we can offer so much more than a local branch can by itself - with specialist clinics, social prescribing and innovative support such as regular dementia cafes, armed forces support and even child first aid classes for parents.

We strive to look after our employees as well, with generous annual leave, flexible and family friendly working, and support during difficult times such as free counselling.