Website NHS Jobs
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist
Job Details
- Posting Date: 22 January 2024
- Salary: Not specified (Negotiable)
- Hours: Full Time
- Closing Date: 31 January 2024
- Location: Leicester, LE5 4LJ
- Company: NHS Jobs
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Reference: A2486-24-0000
Summary: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our team at NHS Jobs in Leicester. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in patient care by optimizing medication usage, conducting clinical medication reviews, and providing pharmaceutical expertise. If you are passionate about making a positive impact on patient outcomes and have the necessary qualifications and experience, we invite you to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct medication reviews for patients with single or multiple medical problems, ensuring medicines optimization.
- Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
- Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences, managing caseloads for common/minor ailments.
- Provide patient-facing clinics and a telephone help line for medication-related queries.
- Answer all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, practice staff, healthcare teams, and patients, suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Review and reconcile medicines post-hospital discharge and upon admission to care homes.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk patient groups.
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services with medicinal components.
- Analyze and interpret medicines data, presenting findings to support decision-making.
- Undertake simple audits of prescribing and contribute to national and local research initiatives.
- Implement changes to medicines based on MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and other guidance.
- Monitor practice prescribing against local health economy’s RAG list and make recommendations to GPs.
- Assist practices in maintaining a practice formulary and auditing compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
- Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
- Deliver education and training to primary healthcare teams on therapeutics and medicines optimization.
- Ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
- Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on all public health programs.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Clinical pharmacy experience in a healthcare setting.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Commitment to continuous professional development.
To apply for this position, please visit [link to application page].
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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