This clinical pharmacist post sits within the pharmacy team serving the primary care network around The Station Practice, a GP practice. The work centres on medication reviews for patients with long-term conditions and polypharmacy, along with medicines reconciliation after hospital discharge and handling repeat prescribing. The role is full-time and can be done remotely or in a hybrid pattern, with flexible working offered. Candidates need a current GPhC registration and an Independent Prescribing qualification, plus general practice experience.
What the job involves
- Carry out face-to-face and telephone structured medication reviews, prioritising patients with polypharmacy, older people, care home residents, multimorbidity and mental health conditions
- Manage long-term conditions and high-risk medicines monitoring, including anticoagulant and dependence-forming medication clinics
- Reconcile medicines on hospital discharge and transfers of care, working with patients and community pharmacists
- Manage repeat prescription reauthorisation, acute prescription requests and referrals to the repeat dispensing service
- Respond to patient and healthcare professional medicines queries, sign prescriptions and advise prescribers
- Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through deprescribing and medication review
- Review pathology results and request outstanding bloods where needed for medication review
- Lead clinical audit, quality improvement and PDSA cycles, and manage practice formularies
- Implement drug withdrawals and alerts, such as MHRA alerts, and evidence-based guidance such as NICE
- Provide medicines information and training to practice healthcare professionals and admin staff, and mentor students and junior colleagues
- Contribute to multimorbidity and multidisciplinary reviews and attend practice, PCN and ICB meetings
- Support aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and ICB projects, and develop services to address local healthcare gaps
Qualifications
- Pharmacy degree (MPharm or equivalent)
- Independent Prescribing qualification
Registration & licences
- Current GPhC registration
Experience
- At least 6 months practising as an Independent Prescriber
- Demonstrable clinical pharmacy experience
- Relevant experience working in general practice
Skills & knowledge
- Practise safely and competently within prescribing scope
- Understanding of medicines optimisation, medication review and safe prescribing
- Ability to assess clinical information and pathology results to identify medicines risks
- Good clinical reasoning and decision-making
- Ability to recognise limits and elevate to a GP or senior clinician
- Excellent clinical, communication and ICT skills
Other
- Good organisational skills
- Comfortable working independently and as part of multiple teams
Nice to have
- 1-2 years experience working in general practice
- Experience undertaking structured medication reviews (SMRs)
- Experience managing long-term conditions and multimorbidity
- Experience with high-risk medicines monitoring
- Experience with repeat prescribing and prescription authorisation
- Experience with clinical audit, QI or PDSA and medicines optimisation projects
- Completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
