Clinical Pharmacist

About Lakeside

Lakeside Healthcare is a large GP partnership that provides NHS care for around 170,000 patients across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. We are made of eight GP practices across 14 sites that are part of their local communities.

We work together as practices to provide resilience, sharing learning and professional back-office support services.

Our most important asset is our people, who provide care for our patients and help run our surgeries smoothly. We employ over 500 clinical and non-clinical staff, and we invest in training and developing to ensure that we retain and attract good quality staff who want to stay with us and be part of our team.

We are proud of what we do and strive to demonstrate our values of Caring, Respect, Quality and Teamwork in everything we do.

About the Practice

Lakeside Healthcare New Queen Street & Stanground is a forward thinking, progressive organisation offering primary care services to the people of Whittlesey, Stanground and surrounding villages. We are a GP partnership, just at a larger scale. This scale allows us to be locally led by our local GP partners whilst providing the safety and security of central support. We are a large practice with a population approaching 20,000 patients. We are a great team and welcome the challenges that a busy practice brings.

Job Introduction

Lakeside Healthcare New Queen Street and Stanground Surgeries has a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, patient focused Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly, hardworking team. If you share our values of Caring, Teamwork, Respect and Quality we would love to hear from you.

Salary Range: £40,769.30 - £55,219.43 full-time equivalent (depending on experience) or £20.85 - £28.24 per hour.

This is a part-time post working 20 hours per week.

What you will do

The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews, managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.

The post holder will be working within an established pharmacy team to deliver all aspects of safer, effective prescribing. There is an opportunity to become involved in Pharmacy lead projects across Lakeside Healthcare.

The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Essential Criteria

• Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
• Independent prescriber (or nearing completion) with experience of managing chronic disease.
• Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and/or Completion of the CPPE Pathway (or nearing completion).

We are looking for a team player with a thirst for knowledge and enthusiasm to make a difference in primary care. You should be dedicated, compassionate and approachable with excellent communication and time management skills and be able to work under pressure.

What we offer you (Benefits)

• Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements).
• NHS pension and long service recognition.
• NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card).
• Career opportunities.
• Role specific training and ongoing development.
• Great team environment

Interview process

Please apply with a CV and a cover letter - Please upload your CV as a pdf and include your personal email address in your cover letter.

Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually.

To help you shine and show your full potential, please make us aware of any changes you might need at any stage of your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role, any changes at interviews, or anything else, we encourage you to contact our central People team. northantsicb.lakesidehumanresources@nhs.net.

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after the advert has closed and will advise of interview arrangements if successful, however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions that do not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £40,769.30-£55,219.43 per year

Expected hours: 20 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK? (Yes/No) – If you answered Yes you must be able to provide sufficient evidence upon interview.
• Are you Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council?

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 25/08/2024