Full-Time Salaried Clinical Pharmacist

Castle Practice; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Castle Practice in Birmingham is seeking an enthusiastic, experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join full-time on a permanent basis. The role focuses on daily clinical pharmacy support within GP practice or PCN settings, working closely with GPs and the multidisciplinary team.

You will take ownership of acute prescription requests, medicines-related queries, long-term condition reviews, medicines optimisation and structured medication reviews.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable primary care experience in a GP practice or PCN setting.
• Ability to provide clinical pharmacy advice and medicines optimisation.
• Experience with chronic disease management and structured medication reviews.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of acute prescription requests and medication queries.
• Provide daily clinical pharmacy support to the Duty Doctor and practice team.
• Undertake long-term condition reviews and structured medication reviews.
• Support safe repeat prescribing, medicines reconciliation and discharge processes.
• Prescribe within scope of competence and in line with guidance where qualified.
• Identify recurring problems and develop practical improvements with the team.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

GP practice experience

Medicines optimisation

Education

GPhC registered pharmacist

Tools

NHS IT systems

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and proactive Clinical Pharmacist to join The Castle Practice on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate must have demonstrable primary care experience in a GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN) setting.

This is a hands-on clinical role designed to add meaningful capacity to the practice. You will work closely with our GPs and wider multidisciplinary team, with a particular focus on providing daily clinical pharmacy support to the Duty Doctor, managing medicines-related workload autonomously and helping patients receive safe, timely and effective care.

A key part of the role will be taking ownership of acute prescription requests and medication-related queries from patients, community pharmacies, reception and clinical colleagues. We are looking for a proactive problem-solver who will investigate and resolve issues within their scope of competence rather than routinely passing work back to the GP or reception team. Appropriate escalation to a GP will always be supported where clinically necessary.

The balance of work will vary according to practice demand. The successful candidate will therefore need to be flexible and comfortable moving between acute workload, long-term condition reviews, structured medication reviews, medicines optimisation and other clinical priorities., Provide daily clinical pharmacy support to the Duty Doctor and wider practice team.Manage acute prescription requests and medication queries, including urgent supply issues, monitoring requirements and queries arising from hospital correspondence or transfer of care. Undertake long-term condition reviews and associated medication reviews, including appropriate monitoring and medication optimisation. Undertake structured clinical medication reviews, particularly for patients with complex polypharmacy, frailty, high-risk medicines or multiple long-term conditions, with a proactive focus on appropriate deprescribing and reduction of dependence-forming medicines, including controlled drugs and benzodiazepines, in partnership with patients and in line with clinical guidance. Support safe and efficient repeat prescribing, medicines reconciliation and discharge medication processes. Prescribe, initiate, stop or titrate medicines within scope of competence and in accordance with local and national guidance where appropriately qualified. Provide expert medicines advice to patients and members of the practice team. Identify recurring medicines-related problems or inefficient processes and proactively develop practical solutions with the practice team. Support medicines optimisation, prescribing safety, quality improvement, QOF and relevant enhanced service work. Work flexibly across clinical priorities according to day-to-day practice workload.

The post holder will be supported by experienced GPs and will work as an integral member of the practice multidisciplinary team. We are looking for someone who wants to make a visible difference to patient care, prescribing safety and the day-to-day workload of general practice.