Pharmacist

Location: Minehead/Somerset
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 30 hrs per week (Part-Time)

Salary: Negotiable

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist to join our Client at Minehead. With extensive experience of working within a primary care setting, the post holder will provide expert support to our GP practices, as well as high quality patient care consultations.

The Pharmacist will efficiently work as an expert advisor for medicines, repeat prescriptions, medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care aspects of the multidisciplinary team workload. 

The full-time for us is 40 hours per week. This is a part-time job, 30 hours per week.

The job holder will have to:

• Provide services to patients that are registered with the Hub
• Provide information and support to patients on the following:
  o    Medicines Information – General advice requests
  o    Pharmaceutical advice
  o    Repeat Prescriptions
• Provide support to our primary care sites and assist with prescribing and high-risk drug management audits as service requirements 
• Use critical thinking and effective communication skills to assess accurately the caller’s needs (establish the level of information required, their existing level of knowledge and other issues including social, cultural and economic factors)
• Prescribe appropriately for patients requiring urgent prescriptions using access to summary care record information to ensure accurate re-prescribing
• Communicate information and pharmaceutical advice to callers in a clear and understandable manner, adapted to the needs of the individual
• Identify and appropriately action clinical risks for health and medicines queries in line with professional responsibility
• Identify child and adult protection issues arising from health and medicines information calls, and action these in line with protocols
• Record in a timely manner a true and accurate record of the information and advice given, and to complete an electronic record of the call event using the appropriate clinical system
• Actively access specialist information by using electronic databases i.e., BNF etc. ensuring accurate advice is given at all times.
• Actively communicate with colleagues to assist service delivery.

The full-time for us is 40 hours per week. This is a part-time job, 30 hours per week.

• Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Have successfully completed CPPE General practice pharmacist pathway
• Be a Non-Medical Prescriber
• Maintain professional and clinical competence through mechanisms of continuing professional development
• Have extensive experience of working within a primary care setting
• Be able to provide high quality patient care consultations
• Be able to effectively manage workload and support our services with Pharmacy related tasks

System used: SystemOne

Interested candidates may apply on job portal or send CV at team.admin@medicopartners.com.