Pharmacist

• 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

• 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

• Genuine responsibility from day one
• Work with a strong social purpose
• A competitive salary with increments based on professional development
• Membership of the NHS pension
• Support to guide your personal and professional development
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Working in a purpose built facility
• Working in the largest single site GP surgery in Suffolk
• 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing with continual years of NHS service

Essential

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community)
• Qualified independent prescriber desirable
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Essential

• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals