Clinical Pharmacist - Avenue Surgery

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive team working at The Avenue Surgery.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Pharmacist to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a supportive and forward-thinking primary care organisation.

Applications are welcomed from both newly qualified and experienced Pharmacists. We are committed to supporting our staff and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to help achieve a positive work-life balance.

To work alongside GPs and other health professionals to provide expertise in clinical pharmacy, medicines optimisation, management and safety through structured medication reviews. You will provide leadership for medicines use to ensure patients experience high quality patient care that will improve health outcomes and efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely expertise which include telephone contact with patients.

The main duties will include using your own clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team and ICB to provide face to face and remote medications review, support management of patients with long-term conditions and co-morbidities, undertake medicines reconciliation, polypharmacy management, provide telephone consultation, repeat prescription standardisations, implementation and management, drug monitoring management, shared-care agreement management and clinical audits.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational effectiveness within primary so requires, motivation, passion and resilience to deliver and excellent service within general practice.

You will work as part of the prescribing team, you will lead and support the team by providing day to day line management. You will represent the surgery as prescribing lead for the surgery within the PCN and the ICB.

Sussex Primary Care run a number of GP Practices across Sussex providing excellent primary care in the heart of the community. We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs.

Be patient-focussed in everything we do

Support staff to be the best they can be

Innovate, learn and evaluate

• Contribute to improved health outcomes in long term conditions for the practices.
• Support patients to manage their long-term conditions.
• Carry out clinical medication reviews for patients on multiple medications for long term conditions.
• Review if prescribing is appropriate in line with current guidance, cost-effective and safe; identify unmet need, stop unnecessary/ineffective medicines. Implement own prescribing changes as an independent prescriber.
• Review of pathology results for patients under their care.
• Contribute to achievement of QOF targets to improve health outcomes.
• Make appropriate recommendations to the wider clinical team including senior pharmacists, senior clinical practitioners and GPs.

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients
• Produce recommendations for senior clinical practitioner, GP etc. for ongoing prescribing and monitoring recommendations.
• To review medications for new patients, to ensure safe, cost-effective prescribing in line with practice/local prescribing policies.

• Undertake clinical medication review with patients and staff within the care home.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medication ordering and administration.

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce…