# Clinical Pharmacist

**Company**: Chertsey Health Centre
**Location**: Chertsey, Surrey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic, confident, patient-focused and practice-based Clinical Pharmacist to become a valued member of our friendly, supportive practice team.

As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, using your clinical expertise to optimise medicines, improve patient outcomes, and promote the safe and effective use of medicines.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**

- Undertake structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation to improve patient outcomes, medication safety, and adherence.

- Provide clinical advice to GPs, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team on prescribing and medicines-related issues.

- Support the management of patients with long-term conditions, including medication review, monitoring, and follow-up.

- Identify and manage medication-related risks, including interactions, adverse effects, contraindications, and inappropriate prescribing.

- Support medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge and changes in care.

- Provide patients with clear advice and counselling on their medicines, promoting adherence and shared decision-making.

- Support safe, effective, and cost-effective prescribing in line with NICE guidance, local formularies, and practice policies.

- Contribute to repeat prescribing, medicines safety, clinical audits, quality improvement, and prescribing reviews.

- Work collaboratively with community and hospital pharmacy teams and other healthcare professionals to ensure continuity of care.

- Maintain accurate clinical records and comply with professional, legal, confidentiality, and information governance requirements.

- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, clinical governance, and service development.

- Maintain professional competence through continuing professional development and work within GPhC standards.

**Person Specification**

- Experience of working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network

- Experience of conducting structured medication reviews

- Knowledge of prescribing issues relating to long-term conditions

- Experience of medicines management and optimisation and evidence-based prescribing

- Experience of supporting long-term condition management

- Knowledge of QOF, NICE guidance, local prescribing policies, clinical governance requirements

- Understanding of medication safety, risk management, and safeguarding responsibilities

- Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams

**Qualifications**

- Professional Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm or equivalent)

- Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

- Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

**Benefits**

- Permanent contract

- Full-time position

**Other Requirements**

- Disclosure and Barring Service Check

- UK Registration

## Skills

### Required
- clinical assessment
- decision-making
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- time management
- organisational skills
- problem-solving
- analytical skills
- prioritisation
- independent work
- teamwork
- clinical record-keeping
- information governance

### Nice to have
- Independent Prescriber qualification
- postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy
- primary care pharmacy experience
- ICB initiatives
- primary care pharmacy programmes
- clinical audits
- quality improvement projects
- EMIS Web experience

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