Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide medicines information to GPs, nurses, primary care staff and community pharmacists including production of a regular newsletter and other communication media.
- Produce and present concise written and verbal reports to prescribing and other relevant committees on planned and completed work. Reports may require analysis of highly complex medicines information from a variety of sources.
- Develop and implement cost management strategies to assist the financial balances are achieved.
- Work closely with and provide highly specialised professional pharmaceutical advice to GP practices, providers and patients, and effectively input to decisions that relate to medicines optimisation.
- Meet with the Executive GP lead for Medicines Management to determine priorities and assess how the business plans developed will impact on the prescribing budget and strategic objectives.
- Review medication safety bulletins, alerts, or publications on a monthly basis and conduct an assessment to determine where opportunities for improvement exist.
- Ensure all appropriate information is communicated to clinicians and providers.
- Formulate recommendations, obtain stakeholder support, and develop an implementation and education plan consistent with rapid cycle change. Monitor compliance.
Ideal Candidate:
- Pharmacy masters degree or equivalent.
- Member of the pharmaceutical regulatory body/Post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience.
- 3 years working as a pharmacist in UK NHS hospital or primary care setting.
If you are interested in the role, please contact Donna Larder on (phone number removed) or send your CV to (url removed).