Experienced GP Pharmacist NMP - Harford Health Centre

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated experienced general Practice Pharmacist who is committed to developing their knowledge and skills to improve patient care. The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of Harford Health Centre. They will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing structured medication reviews. They will also support the management of patients with long-term conditions by reviewing repeat medication requests.

They will co-ordinate prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of CCG and locality initiatives.

The Clinical Pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within primary care. The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are: To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries A senior advisory role in the day to day running of the dispensary They should support the following clinical work: Clinical Medication Review Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review) Use appropriate CCG provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers They should also support the following practice development work: Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registers Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting dispensary & clerical (repeat prescription) staff)