PCN Clinical Pharmacist (full-time/ part-time) Great Yarmouth, England
Job description
About the Role
Great Yarmouth and Northern Villages Primary Care Network has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network, to help us to build on the work already started, to improve the quality of care and reduce health inequalities, across our deprived area.
We would be happy to consider the right applicant on a full-time or part-time basis, and there is an option to include some home or remote working. The successful candidate will be developed, managed and mentored by the senior clinical pharmacist.
- working with the multidisciplinary team, to undertake structured clinical medication reviews, proactively managing people with complex polypharmacy;
- providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines, whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of people living within the network area;
- providing guidance on person-centred medicines optimisation;
- through structured medication reviews and shared decision-making, supporting patients to achieve the best outcome for them, reducing waste and promoting self-care, where possible.
About the Candidate
- A degree in pharmacy;
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
- Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
- Post-qualification experience, ideally in primary care;
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Basic life-support training;
- Safe-guarding adult and children, level three.
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Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
