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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;
- 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;
- 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;
