Job Description
Main duties of the job
The post holder is an experienced pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, to develop, manage & mentor a team of pharmacists. The post holder will work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient‑facing role.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice & undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co‑morbidity.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription & medication queries, help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care & systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public & social‑care needs of patients in the GP practice...