Clinical Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist has arisen to join our team. The working hours for this position are full time, flexible.

This position will support our clinical teams dealing with day-to-day acute conditions alongside medication management including post discharge synchronisation, medication reviews and repeat prescribing.

We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication skills and adaptability to the ever-changing NHS. We will provide a friendly and supportive environment to work in alongside development and training. You will work alongside our existing clinical pharmacists supporting our practices with medicines management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will manage and undertake the following duties:

- Clinical medication management and optimisation

- Acute and minor aliment clinics within the candidates competency framework

- Deal with incoming hospital discharges and third-party letters

- Repeat prescribing

- Supporting with QOF work

- Medicine safety and quality audits

- Care Quality Commission work

- Contractual target-based work

- Deal with medicine related queries

The successful applicant willwork within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, ensure systems for safe prescribing, addressing public health and social care needs of patients at the practice. The post-holder will perform review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

As the biggest provider of GP services in the North West, we are proud to have 40+ surgeries all rated by the CQC as either Outstanding or Good.

SSP Health cares for over 220,000 patients. We pioneered federated practice almost 20 years ago, allowing us to innovate to both improve patient care and enhance the wellbeing of our GPs.

We have won many awards over the years, and recently won Clinical Improvement for Chronic Conditions GP Practice Award and were finalists at the HSJ Awards.

We have an excellent network of support available from our practices with opportunities for development available to those who are interested in progression