Practice Pharmacist

Overview

As a Practice Pharmacist, you will provide expert clinical medicines management within a multidisciplinary primary care team, leading structured medication reviews and supporting long-term condition management. You will reconcile medicines after hospital discharge, optimize prescribing safety, and contribute to multimorbidity reviews and guideline-based care. You work closely with clinicians, pharmacists, and patients to reduce polypharmacy, improve outcomes, and promote safe, evidence-based prescribing in GP practices.

Pay / Benefits

• NHS Pension Scheme
• comprehensive induction and training
• incremental annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS discount scheme

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs in GP practices
• Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
• Reconcile medicines post-discharge and coordinate with patients and community pharmacists
• Support reductions in medicine-related hospital admissions by optimizing outcomes and addressing issues
• Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues; promote repeat dispensing service
• Manage repeat prescribing reauthorisation by reviewing requests and review dates
• Handle medicine queries from patients and healthcare professionals
• Increase prescribing safety via audits and PDSA cycles
• Manage practice formularies to improve quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness
• Implement drug withdrawals and alerts (e.g., MHRA)
• Work with primary care teams to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
• Contribute to multimorbidity and MDT reviews
• Provide medicines information and training to staff
• Review pathology results for patients on known medicines
• Act as a source of medicines information for the practice team and patients
• Support menopause medication reviews to optimise outcomes

Key requirements

• GMC General Pharmaceutical Council registration
• Independent Prescribing Qualification
• Strong therapeutic knowledge and evidence-based healthcare principles
• Understanding of primary care prescribing and rational prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to plan and review medicine optimization for long-term conditions
• Good IT skills and ability to analyse complex information
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to produce timely reports and influence implementation of recommendations
• Independent working and teamwork; self-motivated and adaptable
• Full Driving Licence
• Demonstrable integrity and professional appearance
• Willingness to change practice based on experience
• Desirable: Masters in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)

• excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• ability to influence and negotiate
• strong problem-solving under pressure
• clinical medicines review
• clinical governance and medication safety
• PDSA and audit cycles

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