Clinical Pharmacist in London

The Clinical Pharmacist will play a key role within the GP surgery, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to optimise medicines use, improve patient outcomes, and support safe, effective prescribing. The postholder will provide expert clinical advice on medicines, undertake structured medication reviews, and contribute to the management of long-term conditions. They will be involved in reviewing complex polypharmacy, addressing medication-related queries, and ensuring high-quality, evidence-based prescribing. The role includes responsibility for reducing medicines-related harm and supporting patients to get the best from their treatment through personalised care and shared decision-making. The pharmacist will also contribute to wider practice priorities such as QOF, IIF, medicines safety audits, and implementation of NICE guidance. They will work closely with the pharmacy team, community pharmacy, and secondary care to ensure seamless medicines management across the patient journey.

Main duties of the job include:

• Clinical pharmacists work within multidisciplinary teams in patient-facing roles, using their expert medicines knowledge to assess and treat patients in defined disease areas.
• They are prescribers or training to prescribe, supporting general practice by managing patients with chronic conditions and conducting clinical medication reviews, particularly for those with complex polypharmacy, frailty, COPD, CVD, and diabetes.
• They provide specialist expertise in medicines use, support public health and social care needs, and help reduce health inequalities.
• They lead on person-centred medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship, and quality improvement, contributing to QOF and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews, they help patients use medicines effectively, reduce waste, and promote self-care.
• Clinical pharmacists also support integration between general practice and wider healthcare teams, improving outcomes, access, and workload management.
• They build strong relationships across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• They play a central role in shared care protocols, medicines-related research, and liaison with specialist and community pharmacists.

You will be expected to work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

About us: We are a practice based in leafy Buckinghamshire with approximately 2 GP Partners, 1 salaried and 3 locum GPs. They are supported by 3 Physicians Associates, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 1 First Contact Practitioner, 4 Practice Nurses, and 2 Healthcare assistants. We also have 3 in-house pharmacists, 1 Social Prescriber, and an admin team of 12 staff members.

Job responsibilities include:

• See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, monitoring needs, and support patients with their medicines taking.
• Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for quality improvement.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacists, nurses, and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Provide patient-facing clinics for those with medicines queries.
• Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions about their medicines.
• Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, and patients.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions.
• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and into care homes.
• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care.
• Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process.
• Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.
• Provide pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services.
• Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks.
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Support public health campaigns.

Personal Attributes:

• Professional approach to work demonstrating excellent interactive patient skills.
• Ability to gain the confidence and credibility of a range of professionals.
• Able to work under pressure and prioritise tasks.
• Able to communicate effectively and engage with individuals from other agencies.
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner if required.

Experience:

• Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a practice pharmacist.
• Effective interpersonal, communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation.
• Ability to define, collate, analyse, and interpret data.
• Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews, and patient counselling.

Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Registered with GPhC.
• Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development.
• Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course.
• At least 2 years post-registration experience in a hospital, community, or general practice setting.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.