Clinical Pharmacist
Westrop Medical Practice, Swindon
- Full time
- Permanent
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Westrop Medical Practice, Swindon
- Onsite working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted 4 days ago, 21 May
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Full Job Description
An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our well-established team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. The successful candidate will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within the Practice. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. An independent prescribing qualification would be beneficial, but a full course sponsorship will be provided for the right candidate. Benefits
- Private Health Insurance for all our staff
- Enrolment in our inhouse GP Mentorship programme with weekly protected mentor time.
- Flexible roles and working options
- Support for those wishing to develop special interests
- Protected regular clinician breakfast meetings and clinical meetings
- Support with CPD
- Team wellbeing activities such as team Its a knockout races for charity and chilli growing competitions. 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 medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practices that make up the PCN. The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and 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. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held
Westrop Medical Practice serves a population of over 49,000 in six locations, three are semi-rural locations on the edge of the Cotswolds, one in the centre of Old Town and two in North Swindon. Westrop Medical Practice's mission is to be a national exemplar for primary care provision. We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop, and transform patient care and improve processes in the practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do. We also play a highly active role in discussions at an ICA and ICS level. Westrop Medical Practice are members of the Brunel Health Group. Brunel is a group of 14 independent surgeries, who work closely together to offer services such as the COVID vaccination programme and paramedic home visiting service. As a group we provide care to 150 000 patients and we are the largest primary care research group across the Southwest of England.