Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary The Dene and Stour Valley PCN are looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist who is passionate for delivering a quality service to their patients. The Clinical Pharmacist role supports to improve patients’ health outcomes and of the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise, including face to face. Clinical Pharmacist proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care. You will be based at Hastings House Medical Centre. Main duties of the job The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to be directly responsible for care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
• To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
• To lead and promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation for specialist area in the wider medicine’s agenda ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes.
• To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery for specialist area in order to ensure a high-quality service and to further develop provision.
• To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.

Overview of your organisation South Warwickshire GP Federation (SWGP) seeks an enthusiastic and proactive pharmacist to develop as General Practice Clinical Pharmacists on behalf of the Dene and Stour Valley PCN which is made up of the following practices: Hastings House Medical Centre Bidford Health Centre Meon Medical Centre Shipston Medical Centre Salary is dependent on experience and qualifications and includes NHS pension + 25 days holiday. Due to the geography and nature of the this role a clean UK driving licence and full use of care is essential. Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Salary: £41,200.00-£44,796.00 per year Schedule:

• Monday to Friday