Clinical Pharmacist

Improve patients health outcomes and efficiency of the practice team by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines expertise, including identifying areas for improvement, and initiating change.

The primary contact within the practice for queries relating to medicines management, around individual patient care.

Focus on individual patient care by addressing immediate and future needs to personalise care planning.

Proactively to transfer, from other clinical staff, workload relating to medicines optimisation to improve patient care and safety.

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the practice and the role through audit and data analysis.

To follow-up patients and investigations, particularly blood tests.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone call structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.

The post holder will perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co- morbidities. The post holder will support clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Solihull Healthcare Partnership (SHP) is more than a GP organisation. We are a community of people driven by a shared purpose: to deliver exceptional, personcentred care to over 56,000 patients across Solihull and Shirley. Working from seven local surgeries, we bring together the best of traditional general practice with the innovation, resilience, and opportunity of a modern, forwardthinking partnership.

Every member of our team ranging from clinical, operational, administrative, and managerial plays a vital role in shaping the future of primary care. Supported by a central team covering HR, IT, finance, governance and communications, our practice teams are empowered to focus on what matters most: delivering compassionate, highquality care that changes lives.

We are dedicated to improving healthcare provision and share a belief that General Practice is the foundation of NHS Services. We aim to meet the growing needs and expectations of our patients without losing continuity of care, and we work together to find new innovative solutions that will provide high quality, excellent care for all.