The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist who will 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 toproactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff withregards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support therepeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, andmedicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing,providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both publicand social care needs of patient in the GP practice(s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
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 anon-medical prescriber.