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Ravensbury Park Medical Centre, situated in East Merton, operates as a general practice providing NHS primary care services for approximately 5,000 patients. Our practice is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of patient care, with a strong focus on disease prevention, patient education, and delivering personalized, proactive healthcare. We adhere to the fundamental principles of clinical practice and evidence-based care, while also fostering an environment open to innovation and new approaches. We are committed to supporting the growth of our clinical team and facilitating the professional development of the successful candidate. If you are passionate about pharmacy practice in a primary care setting, we invite to apply and be part of our dedicated team.
We are offering a rewarding opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to become an integral part of our team in our practice. As a valued team member, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in patient care. In this role, your primary responsibilities will involve conducting medication reviews, managing chronic disease, responding to drug information queries, promoting adherence to treatment plans and educating patients on medication use and potential side effects.
You will work closely with the clinical team to enhance patient outcomes and support the practice in achieving targets. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical skills, effective communication abilities, a collaborative approach to care and a passion for improving patient experience and outcomes.
About us
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients and their carers.
- Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.
- Respond to prescription requests from community patients, nursing/care home staff, pharmacy staff and GPs, processing them within recognised timescales (e.g. 48 hours for routine prescriptions and same day for urgent prescriptions). This can include re-routing prescriptions to out of hours pharmacies for same day delivery.
- Use practice templates to record near patient monitoring for high risk drugs.
- Identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician.
- Support and respond to medicines-related queries from medical and nursing colleagues and from patients and relatives via face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies.
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff.
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
Ravensbury Park Medical Centre, situated in East Merton, operates as a general practice providing NHS primary care services for approximately 5,000 patients. Our practice is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of patient care, with a strong focus on disease prevention, patient education, and delivering personalized, proactive healthcare. We adhere to the fundamental principles of clinical practice and evidence-based care, while also fostering an environment open to innovation and new approaches. We are committed to supporting the growth of our clinical team and facilitating the professional development of the successful candidate. If you are passionate about pharmacy practice in a primary care setting, we invite to apply and be part of our dedicated team.
We are offering a rewarding opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to become an integral part of our team in our practice. As a valued team member, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in patient care. In this role, your primary responsibilities will involve conducting medication reviews, managing chronic disease, responding to drug information queries, promoting adherence to treatment plans and educating patients on medication use and potential side effects.
You will work closely with the clinical team to enhance patient outcomes and support the practice in achieving targets. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical skills, effective communication abilities, a collaborative approach to care and a passion for improving patient experience and outcomes.
About us
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients and their carers.
- Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.
- Respond to prescription requests from community patients, nursing/care home staff, pharmacy staff and GPs, processing them within recognised timescales (e.g. 48 hours for routine prescriptions and same day for urgent prescriptions). This can include re-routing prescriptions to out of hours pharmacies for same day delivery.
- Use practice templates to record near patient monitoring for high risk drugs.
- Identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician.
- Support and respond to medicines-related queries from medical and nursing colleagues and from patients and relatives via face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies.
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff.
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
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