Practice based Clinical Pharmacist

Overview

In this role you support the pharmacy team to optimise medicines and improve care for practice patients. You will conduct patient-facing clinics and clinical medication reviews, focusing on polypharmacy and chronic disease management. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to medicines safety and service development while pursuing non-medical prescribing. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position with opportunities for leadership and career progression.

Responsibilities

• Patient facing long term condition clinics and medicine optimisation
• Clinical medication reviews for patients (including care homes and domiciliary reviews)
• Medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and safety-focused prescribing
• Repeat prescribing management and policy implementation
• Risk stratification and data-driven service development
• Provide medicines information to staff and patients and address queries
• Support discharge medication processes and continuity of supply
• Medicine safety changes in response to MHRA alerts and guidelines
• Education and training on therapeutics and medicines optimisation
• Public health support and ensuring NICE/NHS guideline compliance

Key requirements

• Bachelor in Pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Enroll and complete the CPPE pathway
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a pharmacist in a practice setting
• Willingness to work towards independent prescribing
• Experience in MDT/GP environment (desirable)
• Knowledge of computer systems (experience with systems like SystemOne is desirable)

• Strong communication and patient-facing skills
• Team collaboration within a multidisciplinary setting
• Problem-solving and critical thinking
• Medicines optimisation
• Clinical medication reviews
• Audit and data interpretation

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