Northfield Surgery is recruiting a pharmacist to work autonomously within its primary care team, serving its own patient list and occasionally a second practice site. The core of the work is clinical pharmacy: structured medication reviews, prescribing advice, repeat prescription checks and medicines optimisation for long-term conditions. The practice already has a full-time pharmacist plus a network pharmacist, and the post sits within a multidisciplinary team alongside GPs and nurses. GPhC registration and eligibility to practise in the UK are essential.
What the job involves
- Provide expert clinical advice on medicines optimisation and prescribing
- Conduct structured medication reviews and support patients with their medicines
- Identify and resolve medication-related problems
- Support safe, effective and cost-effective prescribing
- Review repeat prescriptions and support appropriate medicines management
- Advise clinicians and other healthcare professionals on medication and prescribing queries
- Support the management of long-term conditions through medicines optimisation
- Support medication monitoring and appropriate follow-up
- Contribute to prescribing audits, quality improvement and service development
- Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, reception and admin teams and the multidisciplinary team
- Maintain accurate clinical records and work within professional and regulatory standards
Qualifications
- MPharm or equivalent pharmacy qualification
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Registration & licences
- Current GPhC registration
- Eligibility to practise as a pharmacist in the UK
- Appropriate professional indemnity or insurance arrangements
Experience
- Experience of working in a healthcare or primary care environment
- Experience of medication reviews and supporting safe prescribing
- Experience of clinical audit, quality improvement or service development
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of medicines optimisation and safe prescribing
- Understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and risk management
- Knowledge of pharmacy legislation, professional standards and guidance
- Strong IT skills, including SystmOne or another clinical system
- Communicating effectively with patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team
Other
- Excellent time management and organisation
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Nice to have
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical or primary care pharmacy
- Experience of working in a GP practice or Primary Care Network
- Experience of medicines management and optimisation
- Experience of supporting long-term condition management
- Knowledge of QOF, NICE guidance and local prescribing policies
- Experience of ICB initiatives and primary care pharmacy programmes
- Experience of clinical audit and quality improvement
- Experience of delivering clinical education to colleagues
What’s offered
- Competitive rate of pay
- Support with professional development and CPD
- Opportunities to develop clinical skills
- Flexibility with working hours and days
- Regular clinical meetings and collaborative working
- Opportunity to contribute to service development
- Free car parking and good transport links
- Supportive multidisciplinary team
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
