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    Practice Clinical Pharmacist - Beccles, United Kingdom - Primary Care Careers

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    Primary Care Careers Beccles, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Beccles Medical Centre is looking to welcome a qualified 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, on a fixed term, 12 month contract.

    The post-holder will be a pharmacist, who will support and work alongside a team of clinicians in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will assist the surgery's clinical lead to develop, manage and mentor the post-holder. The successful applicant will join a large, established team of prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

    Main duties of the job

    This role would be suitable for a newly-qualified pharmacist, who is looking to develop their knowledge and skills in primary care. Since this role is available under the NHSE ARRS scheme, the post-holder would qualify for the primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, an 18 month education and development programme provided by Health Education England. For more information about this scheme visit:

    The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. They will be involved with chronic disease management and will 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.

    About us

    Beccles Medical Centre is an established GP surgery, in the Suffolk market-town of Beccles. The practice has a list-size of approximately 20,000 patients. We have 5 partners, and just over 100 additional staff. We are a GP training practice and also host other students studying at the nearby University of East Anglia. We work very closely with our PCN.

    Our mission is to provide high quality healthcare with respect and compassion, ensuring that the patients are at the heart of everything we do.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see theattached job specification.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
  • Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

    • Experience

    Essential

  • In depth therapeutic & clinical knowledge & understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
  • An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action, where there may be significant barriers
  • Ability to communicate complex & sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences ( patients)
  • Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues, in core areas, for long term conditions
  • Recognise priorities when problem solving, identifying deviations from the normal pattern, and referring to seniors or GPs when appropriate
  • Excellent interpersonal, influencing & negotiation skills
  • Excellent written & verbal communication skills
  • Good IT skills
  • Able to obtain & analyse complex technical information
  • Produce timely & informative reports

    • Desirable

  • Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
  • Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
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