Interim Practice Pharmacist

Are you an experienced pharmacist with independent prescribing experience looking for an interim opportunity within a specialist healthcare environment? MCS Group are delighted to be recruiting for an Interim Practice Pharmacist.

The Role

As an Interim Practice Pharmacist, you will provide autonomous, highly skilled clinical pharmacy, medicines optimisation and independent prescribing services.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will use your clinical expertise to improve the safety, effectiveness and consistency of prescribing, while supporting medication reviews, repeat-prescribing systems, medicines reconciliation, audit and quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to improve prescribing quality, patient safety and outcomes.
• Work autonomously within the multidisciplinary team, providing expert pharmaceutical and prescribing advice.
• Act as an independent prescriber for agreed patient cohorts, working within your scope of practice and relevant governance frameworks.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation and structured medication reviews.
• Manage and improve safe repeat-prescribing systems.
• Assess, initiate, optimise, therapeutically switch and discontinue medicines in line with clinical need and evidence-based practice.
• Provide pharmaceutical advice in complex clinical situations, including mental health, substance misuse and co-morbid long-term conditions.
• Lead or contribute to medicines-related audit and quality improvement initiatives.
• Use clinical systems and prescribing data to identify risk, monitor outcomes and support service improvement.

The Person

As the successful candidate, you will have the professional knowledge, clinical experience and prescribing capability required to operate as an autonomous pharmacist within a complex healthcare environment.

Essential:

• Registered pharmacist with current professional registration.
• Demonstrable experience in clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation.
• Current independent prescribing status and the ability to prescribe within relevant scope of practice.
• Experience undertaking structured medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development and maintaining prescribing competence.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to work as an autonomous Practice Pharmacist with responsibility for clinical pharmacy, medicines optimisation and independent prescribing.
• Exposure to complex clinical areas including mental health, substance misuse, long-term conditions and polypharmacy.
• Opportunity to contribute to medicines optimisation, audit and quality improvement initiatives.
• Experience working closely with a broad multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Opportunity to influence prescribing practice and contribute to improving patient safety and outcomes.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain CTC clearance as a condition of the role.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Meghan Hamilton, Senior Recruitment Consultant on 028 9049 0907 or on email at j.boyd@mcsgroup.jobs.

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation. If you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current jobs at www.mcsgroup.jobs.