Clinical Pharmacist - Sleaford PCNNHS

Job summary

As a Clinical Pharmacist at K2 Healthcare Ltd, you will work with our established Clinical Pharmacist Team to develop and deliver medicines optimisation services within our group of GP Practices. This is an exciting opportunity to join our federation and collaborate with Senior Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians as part of a multidisciplinary team.

You will be offered the opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme

We hold the right to close the advert early, please apply at your earliest convenience.

Please note: Applications from recruitment agencies and/or locum agencies will not be accepted. We kindly ask that agencies do not contact us regarding this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

This is a patient-facing role requiring clinical assessment and treatment using specialist medicines knowledge across specific disease areas. You will be registered with the GPhC or about to complete your foundation training in order to register as a Clinical Pharmacist with the GPhC. You may already be an independent prescriber or working towards this qualification. The role involves proactively supporting patients with complex polypharmacy, particularly older adults and those with multiple long-term conditions. You will have opportunities to develop clinical interests, enhance prescribing skills, and improve patient outcomes.

Working across a small number of practices will allow you to build strong relationships within primary care teams. Responsibilities include managing repeat prescription authorisation, acute requests, transfer of care processes, and promoting safer prescribing systems. Ongoing professional development is supported through a clinical network, including up to 28 study days over the first 18 months. You will always work within a supported team environment, with mentoring and guidance provided.

Job description

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside the Pharmacist and Dispensary team in the Practice, who will help develop, manage and mentor them.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non medical prescriber if required.

About us

K2 Healthcare is a GP Federation covering 16 practices. 10 are in Grantham and surrounding villages and 6 are in and around Sleaford. We cover 130,000+ patients across all sites.

Please see our website for details about the practices we cover.

We have a Pharmacy Team that consists of 3 Senior Clinical Pharmacists, 12 Clinical Pharmacists and 7 Pharmacy Technicians.

Our Clinical Pharmacy Team are all at different stages of completing their CPPE / IP course and are happy to speak to you regards their experience with K2 Healthcare.