Clinical Pharmacist

Menlo Park Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension scheme

Professional fees covered

Protected CPD and appraisal time

6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays

Job summary

Menlo Park Recruitment is seeking a dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to join a new role in Battersea, South West London. This position offers the chance to take ownership of medicines management in a modern practice while benefiting from strong transport links and a supportive team environment.

The Clinical Pharmacist will work independently across medication reviews and prescribing. The role allows for shaping minor illness clinics from scratch and offers a contracted work-from-home day after the probation period.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified pharmacist with a thorough understanding of prescribing practices and medicines optimisation.
• Experience in working in GP practices or primary care settings is highly preferred.
• Training in independent prescribing is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily prescribing and medicines optimisation practices.
• Shape minor illness clinics and oversee wider pharmacy services.
• Provide clinical supervision to pharmacy team.

Skills

Independent prescriber

Clinical supervision

Medicines management

Education

Pharmacist degree

Job description

Clinical Pharmacist | Battersea, South West London

Background

This is a genuinely new Clinical Pharmacist post, created because the practice has decided that medicines management deserves a dedicated, directly employed pharmacist rather than relying solely on shared PCN resource. You will work alongside the existing PCN pharmacy team, taking a natural degree of ownership over how prescribing and medicines optimisation run day to day, with real scope to help design minor illness clinics from scratch rather than stepping into a fixed structure.

Location

The practice is based in Battersea, Southwest London, with strong transport links across the capital. Clapham Junction and Battersea Park stations both sit close by, putting Waterloo around 10 minutes away and Victoria around 15 minutes away by train. Wandsworth and Clapham are both a short drive away, both popular areas for professionals to live and commute from.

The Practice

• Established GP Training Practice, hosting medical students and GP trainees across all stages of training
• Operates across two sites in Southwest London, including a newly opened, purpose built second site with modern facilities such as onsite minor surgery and a spirometry suite
• Strong partnership team and large salaried GP team, supported by three duty doctors and a triage doctor on site every day
• Mid‑size practice serving a broad and varied local population
• CQC rated Good across all five domains

Your Role

• Potential for a compressed four‑day working week, which could include one contracted work‑from‑home day per week once probation is complete
• Newly created, practice‑owned Clinical Pharmacist role, working as an independent prescriber across medication reviews, reconciliation and repeat prescribing
• Genuine scope to help shape minor illness clinics and wider medicines optimisation services from the ground up
• A natural degree of oversight of the practice's wider PCN provided pharmacy team, without this being a formal line management role
• Clinical supervision from an experienced GP partner medicines lead, with daily duty doctor support on hand

Salary and Benefits

• NHS Pension scheme
• Professional fees covered
• Protected CPD and appraisal time
• 6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays