We have an exciting opportunity in our Mid Essex’s service, where we are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced general practice Independent Prescriber/pharmacist to come and work at our practice in Braintree. As our Independent Prescriber/pharmacist you will be committed to developing your knowledge and skills to improve and deliver excellent patient care with our general practice service.
As our Independent Prescriber/pharmacist you will work alongside a clinical team of GP's ANP's and Practice Nurses as well as primary care network of pharmacists. With the support your colleague’s you will deliver a high quality of care with a focus on older people with frailty (multi-morbidity), patients with long term conditions, cardiovascular disease, asthma/COPD, and diabetes.
Package DescriptionAs a Independent Prescriber/Pharmacist, you will receive a competitive salary. Additional rewards and benefits include:
Salary of £55,000.00 Depending on experience- including AfC Terms as well as NHS pension
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Access to clinical supervision, professional support and mentoring from the Primary Care business unit wide Lead Pharmacist.
Main ResponsibilitiesAs post holder you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical pharmacy leadership for the general practice services, and will include:
Medication Reviews
Chronic disease management
Medicines optimisation
Training and supervision within service will also make up an important part of this role, as you will be required to support less experienced pharmacists to manage proactively and competently.
Repeat prescribing systems
Deal with acute prescription requests
Medicines reconciliation on transfer of care,
Putting in place systems for safer prescribing
Other responsibilities will include:
Clinical Medication Reviews
Care home medication reviews
Domiciliary clinical medication review
Medicines support
Telephone medicines support
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Unplanned hospital admissions
Documents management
Repeat prescribing
Signposting
Risk stratification
Service development
Information management
Medicines quality improvement
Medicines safety
Education and Training
Public health
The Ideal Candidate
Minimum of 5 years post registration experience with at least 2 years in General Practice
Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent training e.g., NHS Pathway training for PBPs Independent prescriber
Certificate in Non-medical prescribing
Experience of using prescribing qualification in General Practice
Evidence of further education in clinical pharmacy e.g., Completion of NHS Pathway Training for Practice Pharmacists or a Clinical Pharmacy Diploma (to apply for exemption from the NHS pathway training)
Experience of working across a range of pharmacy settings
Experience of leading and developing multidisciplinary clinical teams
Registration Essential
Professional Registration
Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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