Job summary
Two Rivers Medical Centre are looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full or part-time basis.

Main duties of the job

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters
• Supporting practice dispensary
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
• 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

About us
As an Employee of Two Rivers Medical Centre, you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Genuine responsibility from day one
• Work with a strong social purpose
• A competitive salary with increments based on professional development
• Membership of the NHS pension
• Support to guide your personal and professional development
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Working in a purpose built facility
• Working in the largest single site GP surgery in Suffolk
• 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing with continual years of NHS service

Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters
• Supporting practice dispensary
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
• 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

Qualifications
Essential

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community)
• Qualified independent prescriber desirable
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Experience
Essential

• 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

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).