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Location
Stockton on Tees, County Durham | United Kingdom
Job description
Clinical Responsibilities: The post holder will undertake a variety of duties including dealing with medication/prescription queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. Making professional, autonomous decisions within clinical competency Providing counselling and health education. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to accepted GMC standards. Recording data to support the Quality and Outcomes Framework targets and clinical audit activities. Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible). Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate. In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a Pharmacist working within primary care. Other Responsibilities within the Organisation: Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety. A commitment to life-long learning, audit and peer appraisal, to ensure evidence based best practice. Contributing to training where appropriate Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the Practice, including monitoring and updating patient records for the purpose of QOF and enhanced services. Contributing to the upkeep of computer-based patient records. Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data. Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
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Salary
£46.93k - £57.35k per annum
