Job Details:
Hourly Rate: up to £60 per hour for the right experience
Working hours: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours
Payment Method: Umbrella/PAYE
Contract Type: Locum
Contract Length: 3 to 6 months
Job Summary:
The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a Clinical Pharmacist working in General Practice and the out of hours setting including:
- Develop, produce, and implement medicines policies and procedures.
- Develop, produce, and implement medicines management strategies to ensure compliance with CQC, QoF, legislation and local quality frameworks.
- Develop, produce, and implement clinical audit in relation to medicines.
- Incorporate the objectives of medicines optimisation into every day general practice, including the aims of national and local strategies.
- Lead, plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the services.
- Undertake clinical structured medication reviews and repeat prescribing when necessary.
- Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and intermediate care, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes, and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
- Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through practice computer searches, including risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
- Based in Litherland with travel required across Liverpool & Sefton
- Hybrid working optional
- Casual dress working environment
Essential Candidate Criteria:
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Experience of medication review, face to face and remotely
- Experience of repeat prescribing and prescribing for long term conditions within competency
- Experience and knowledge of developing and undertaking clinical audit
Blackstone Benefits
✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
✅Complete onboarding support
✅Framework Rates
✅Informed tailored career advice
✅Personalised job alerts
✅Unlimited referral bonus
✅Prompt payroll
For further information on this role, please contact Emma Ansett at Blackstone Recruitment on the details provided or APPLY now