Pharmacist

Two Rivers Medical Centre are looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full or part-time basis.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters
• Supporting practice dispensary
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues