Independent Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist: Primary Care

The Methodist Church in Britain; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network is recruiting an independent prescribing clinical pharmacist to join the PCN pharmacy team. The role focuses on medicines optimisation, long-term condition reviews, and discharge reconciliation across GP practices, hospital, and community settings.

You will work closely with care homes, domiciliary visits, and practice-based clinics, using EMIS and Docman where relevant, and require GPhC registration and a year of clinical GP experience.

Qualifications

• MPharm degree required.
• GPhC Independent Prescribing qualification required.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is required.

Responsibilities

• Run long-term condition clinics to review medicine need, monitoring and optimisation for patients with COPD or asthma.
• Carry out clinical medication reviews with patients and recommend changes to prescribing and monitoring.
• Review medication for care home residents and work with care home staff to improve safe ordering and administration.
• Carry out domiciliary medication reviews and attend multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Manage a caseload of common, minor and self-limiting ailments within scope, signposting or referring as needed.
• Provide patient-facing medicines support clinics and a telephone helpline for medicine queries and concerns.
• Answer medicine enquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients, with follow-up.
• Review medicines most linked to unplanned admissions and readmissions and put changes in place for high-risk patients.
• Reconcile medicines after hospital, intermediate care and care home transfers and maintain continuity of supply.
• Produce and implement the practice repeat prescribing policy and manage reauthorisation.
• Implement changes from MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and local and national guidance, and monitor against the RAG list.
• Run risk stratification searches and undertake clinical prescribing audits with the practice team.

Skills

Communication skills

Governance understanding

Medicine optimisation planning

Working under pressure

Interpersonal skills

Organisation

Education

MPharm (Masters in Pharmacy)

GPhC Independent Prescribing qualification

Tools

EMIS

Docman

Job description

Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network is recruiting an independent prescribing clinical pharmacist to join the PCN pharmacy team. The role focuses on medicines optimisation, long-term condition reviews, and discharge reconciliation across GP practices, hospital, and community settings.

You will work closely with care homes, domiciliary visits, and practice-based clinics, using EMIS and Docman where relevant, and require GPhC registration and a year of clinical GP experience.