Recruiting the right pharmacist – how Medacy can help.

Recruiting the right pharmacist isn’t difficult, right? Wrong. Anyone with a name on the General Pharmaceutical Council can potentially do any pharmacist role, but like in any profession or trade, there is a wide variety of skills and experience within the profession.

High cost for wrong decision

Recruitment is a tricky business. How do you recruit? Database? job boards? your own social network? The Social Networks? professional recruiter? trade magazines? your own website …….. and when you’ve chosen your recruitment channels it’s then which social network? Which trade magazine? Which recruiter and how much are you willing to invest to recruit? It’s also really important to understand the full financial and practical implications of recruiting the wrong person. This is especially important when you are recruiting within the NHS where getting .

So if you are going to recruit a pharmacist to a Primary Care Network what’s the best way of recruiting the right pharmacist? You know you want a pharmacist that is going to make a difference to the practices and clinicians within your organisation? Start by being honest with yourself. Who within your organisation has the experience and in-depth knowledge to recruit well and more importantly in this instance, has the necessary insight into what would make a good PCN or practice pharmacist?

Honesty

If most PCNs are honest, they probably don’t have the people with the right skill set, insight and experience to make that decision and that’s why PCNs have not always made good recruitment choices regarding pharmacists. There are also some PCNs who, now they get 100% funding for the pharmacist are less concerned about choosing the right pharmacist as they are under no risk if they get it wrong.

Medacy can help you recruit the right pharmacist.

However, at Medacy we believe that recruiting the right pharmacist can fundamentally change the way a PCN and it’s member practices operate and that’s why we offer PCNs and GP Practices a recruitment service for pharmacists that is second to none. The service is run by pharmacists with experience working on the ground in practices, PCNs and working with CCG. It includes a full year practical and clinical support for each pharmacist and if we don’t manage to recruit for your vacancy, it doesn’t cost you a penny.

Contact Medacy.

Call 01677 252205 for more details or email shaun@medacy.co.uk

How Medacy Can Help Series:

1. Set up Electronic Repeat Dispensing in your GP Practice
2. Pharmacists – let Medacy help you realise your full potential
3. Medacy Clinical Hubs a new model for delivering pharmacist-led clinical services
4. Emergency Support for GP Practices
5. Managing Medicine Shortages
6. Recruiting the right Pharmacist
7. Launch of Medacy Clinical Recruitment Services