Clinical Pharmacist - Charlotte Keel Medical Practice

Clinical Pharmacist - Charlotte Keel Medical Practice

Located in the vibrant heart of Bristol, Charlotte Keel Medical Practice proudly serves a richly diverse patient community, offering an incredibly rewarding clinical environment. Here, your skills, empathy, and commitment will directly contribute to reducing health inequalities, making healthcare accessible to everyone, and delivering outstanding, patient-centered care.

The Clinical Practitioner will provide exemplary care for their patients, priding themselves on meeting population health needs. This will include consultation with patients who have reached a range of dispositions from 111 including primary care (1,2,6,12 and 24-hour timescales), 999, Emergency Department and Emergency Treatment Centre as well as those who present to practices with routine or urgent needs. Bris Doc practice services specialise in providing high quality and accessible health care to vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups.

Clinicians will need to be focused on improving health inclusion and removing barriers to holistic healthcare.

Who We're Looking For

• Master's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Experience of working in a patient facing role in clinical pharmacy or pharmacy setting
• Strong knowledge of medicines optimisation, polypharmacy and prescribing safety
• It is desirable to have an independent prescribing qualification or working towards one
• Experience of working with I.T systems Microsoft Office and Clinical Systems
• Experience of following set procedures and protocols and working to quality standards
• Experience of working in a busy environment and meeting deadlines

Why Join Our Team?

Make a Lasting Impact

In this role, you will carry out structured medication reviews for patients with complex medication needs, including polypharmacy and frailty, and provide medicines optimisation and reconciliation following hospital discharge and other transitions of care. Working within your scope of practice and under appropriate clinical supervision, you will support repeat prescribing processes, respond to patient medication queries, contribute to clinical audits, and help identify and manage prescribing risks in line with MHRA guidance and national safety alerts.

You will also act as a source of clinical supervision for pharmacy technicians and work alongside prescribing administration colleagues to support safe and effective prescribing.

• Benefit from daily protected "coffee / lunchtime together" and regular meetings -- reflect, recharge, and collaborate closely with your colleagues.

Flexible, Balanced Working Life

• 15 - 17.5 hours per week (working days to be agreed)

Recognising Your Value

• Competitive salary (£54,315 - £55,120), NHS pension, enhanced pay rates, and medical indemnity cover.
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Comprehensive wellbeing support, NHS discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, employee assistance programme, and annual discretionary bonuses.

Clinical

Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, complex needs, acute and chronic conditions for both physical, mental health and psycho-social needs.

Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly

Diagnose and manage patient presentations, integrating both drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan

Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments

Provide information and advice medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions

Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care

To provide face-to-face and remote clinical assessment/treatment and management plans

To provide clinical support to the range of other Health Care Professionals and operational colleagues within the team

To undertake visits to patients homes as required

Compose and ensure robust safety netting and risk management for patients presenting to the service

Make effective referrals to system partners and other care providers to ensure a holistic provision of care for patients needs

Participate in team discussions to ensure and drive best practice, using the best available evidence to provide exemplary world class care to every patient

Prescribers Only

Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice

Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment

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