Clinical Pharmacist

Old Harlow Health Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, toplay a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full time basis.

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage)
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients
  
  Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetesand COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, communitypharmacy and care or nursing homes

Due to retirement the Old Harlow Health Centre has an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Practice, currently looking after 12,000 patients in the heart of Old Harlow. The Practice comprises of 5 GP Partners, all being GP Trainers, 3 salaried GP's and a fluctuating number of GP Registrars. Supported by the nursing team. The Practice also employs FCP's and hosts other healthcare professionals in providing holistic care.

• Remote working possible for some of the hours
• Annual leave: minimum 30 days

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

• 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;
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

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.