Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various hours available)
- Job ref
- 040-PST037-0425
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bryntirion Surgery
- Town
- Bargoed
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
GP Practice Based Pharmacist
Band 8a
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
Are you a pharmacist looking to work in a GP practice?
This roles include working in a clinical role in our GP practice to support medicines management and improve patient care. This will include reviewing repeat prescriptions, reauthorisations, undertaking medication reviews, and monitoring high risk patients to ensure safe and cost effective prescribing.
You will be based in Bryntirion surgery working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
There is professional support and engagement with the ABUHB medicines management team, and you can join the ABUHB network of practice pharmacists.
Main duties of the job
Working with GPs, Practice nurses and practice staff to
- To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within GP practices
- To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare
- To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy
- To develop the practice pharmacist role, becoming a core member of the practice team working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click 'Apply now' to view in TRAC.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community ,therapeutics) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescriber status
- Experience primary care role working with GP practices
- Experience in running clinics
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in running clinics
- Experience primary care role working with GP practices
- Independent prescriber status
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Thomas
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879 228150
- Additional information
Cerys Hopkins
Practice Manager
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