Clinical Pharmacist

An opportunity has arisen for a clinical pharmacist to join South Uttlesford PCN, to provide high quality patient focussed pharmacy services to the patients of the PCN. This position is offered on a full-time basis and based in/out of a variety of South Uttlesford practices/locations according to need.

• Patient facing long-term condition clinics to review the ongoing need for each medication
• Patient facing clinical medication reviews
• Patient facing and telephone medicines support
• Unplanned hospital admissions review of medications and reconciling of medications
• Repeat prescribing
• Identification of high risk patients

We formed our primary care network, to work together to enable us to operate more efficiently and ensure that a greater proportion of our resource is focused on clinical care and improved access

Our PCN covers 4 practices across West Essex,Peacock Surgery, Angel Lane Surgery, John Tasker House supporting 54,000 patients.

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

• Strong experience within primary care
• You will be required to lead by example, setting and maintaining high standards of professionalism within a team environment
• You should be IT literate and confident in using practice systems

• As a minimum, you will hold a degree in Pharmacy (Masters or equivalent)
• Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Ideally you will be a non-medical independent prescriber but the PCN will actively support you to achieve this, if not already an independent prescriber.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.