Clinical PharmacistinBirminghaminBirminghamPUBLISHED THU 28 NOV 2024

**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Clinical Pharmacist to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.

We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team on a full time basis to help us expand and develop our chronic LTC management.

The successful candidate will be joining a team of; 7 Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 Pharmacist, 1 ANP, 3 Physician Associates, 3 Nurses and 4 HCAs.

Main duties of the job The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice. The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the practice contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.

About us

The clinical pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

A Clinical Pharmacist will:

Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team

Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities

Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care

Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload

Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system

Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication

Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians

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