Clinical Pharmacist GP Practice

Overview

In this role you will join a large, teaching GP practice to optimise medicines use, support long-term condition management, and deliver high-quality patient-centred care. You will collaborate with GPs, nurses and a wider team to reduce medicines-related risks and release GP capacity through proactive and reactive medicines management. The position offers opportunities for development within a supportive, innovation-driven culture focused on improving access, safety and outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• NHS pension
• Flexible working options
• Clinical supervision
• Professional development and training
• Staff wellbeing and work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Undertake structured medication reviews for complex patients
• Optimise medicines use following national/local guidance
• Support safe and effective prescribing across the practice
• Identify and manage prescribing risks and medicines-related safety concerns
• Support medicines reconciliation after hospital discharge
• Conduct clinical reviews for long-term conditions
• Provide patient-centred consultations on medicines management
• Support proactive care planning for frail/elderly patients and care homes
• Handle medication queries and complex prescribing issues
• Monitor prescribing data and contribute to quality improvement projects
• Participate in clinical audits and service development
• Provide specialist medicines advice to GPs, nurses, and pharmacy colleagues
• Support management of high-risk medicines and monitoring requirements
• Promote best practice in prescribing and medicines management
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and contribute to integrated care pathways
• Enable initiatives that release GP capacity while improving patient outcomes
• Maintain GPhC registration and engage in CPD / appraisal
• Develop advanced clinical skills and specialist interests relevant to general practice

Key requirements

• GPhC-registered pharmacist
• Experience of patient-facing clinical pharmacy services
• Experience in medicines optimisation and medication review
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
• Strong clinical knowledge of medicines management
• Understanding of long-term condition management
• Excellent communication and consultation skills
• Ability to work independently and seek support when needed
• Commitment to safe, effective, patient-centred care
• Desirable: Independent Prescriber qualification or progress towards it
• Desirable: experience in general practice, primary care networks or community pharmacy
• Desirable: experience with care home medication reviews
• Desirable: involvement in quality improvement, audit and service development
• Desirable: knowledge of GP clinical systems

• strong communication
• team collaboration
• independence with awareness of limits
• medicines optimisation
• medicines management
• long-term condition management

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