Job summary
We are looking for a qualified Pharmacist to enhance our Pharmacy team, we have over 15000 patients over 2 sites. We currently have 2 GP Partners, 5 Salaried GPs, 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners, 4 practice nurses, 6 healthcare assistants and a large admin team. We also have a number of PCN staff.

Main duties of the job
The main duties will be:

• Seeing or phoning patients for medication reviews
• Sorting out medication queries
• help with our Opiate reduction programme
• Participate with Prescribing quality scheme
• To advise on alternative medication for out of stock items
• Holding blood pressure clinics
• Audits
• Medication alerts
• CQC searches for safe medication use

About us
We are situated in Lowestoft, Suffolk (the most easterly point), we are have good rail connections to Norwich, Ipswich.

We are a busy, friendly, patient centred practice. We offer patients the choice of face to face or telephone appointment. Our clinical system is SystmOne and we also use AccuRx for questionnaires, appointment booking and health information gathering.

Job responsibilities
Working in accordance with the GPhC Code of Conduct, the post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines use and optimisation. The post-holder will deliver a high quality, clinical pharmacy service to patients in general practice ensuring the safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of drugs, using expertise in independent prescribing to support improved access to medicines.

The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and 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 some guidance on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will help 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. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber.

Qualifications
Essential

• GPhC
• Maths and English

Desirable

• Independent Prescribing
• Minor illness

Experience
Essential

• Ideally experience of working in general practice

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).