Pharmacist Independent Prescriber

Dears Pharmacy & Travel Clinic; Bathgate; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Dears Pharmacy & Travel Clinic in Bathgate is seeking a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber for a permanent, full‑time role (42.5 hours; part‑time considered). Visa sponsorship available for suitable candidates.

This role focuses on clinical prescribing in a hub-and-spoke model to free pharmacist time for consultations. You will lead clinical service delivery, develop private services, and work closely with GPs and the broader primary care team.

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent and current General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration.
• Annotation as an Independent Prescriber on the GPhC register.
• Defined scope of practice you are confident working within and strong clinical judgement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and Pharmacy First Plus consultations within your scope.
• Lead clinical service delivery in your branch with a support team.
• Develop private clinical services such as Dears Ear with Tympahealth and Medicare checks.
• Deliver weight management, lipids testing, and cardiovascular risk assessment.
• Collaborate with local GP practices and wider primary care teams on shared caseloads.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audits and significant event reviews.
• Mentor pre-registration trainees and colleagues pursuing prescribing qualifications.

Skills

Independent Prescriber

Clinical reasoning

Consultation skills

Education

MPharm or equivalent

GPhC registration

Job description

Pharmacist Independent Prescriber Permanent, full-time (42.5 hours). Part-time considered. Visa sponsorship available for suitable candidates (Skilled Worker route).

THE OPPORTUNITY Dears Pharmacy is a 26-branch Scottish community pharmacy group operating across Fife, Lothian, Glasgow and Tayside. We are recruiting a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber to take a leading clinical role in one of our branches and to help expand the prescribing services we deliver to our communities. This is not a dispensary-bound role. Our central automated dispensing hub at Lochgelly handles a substantial proportion of repeat volume, and our hub-and-spoke model is designed specifically to release pharmacist time from the bench and into the consultation room. If you have completed your independent prescribing qualification and want to actually use it, this is a role built around that.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Delivering NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and Pharmacy First Plus consultations, prescribing within your scope of practice
• Leading clinical service delivery in your branch, supported by a trained technician and support team
• Running and developing our private clinical services, including:
  • Dears Ear: ear health assessment and microsuction using Tympahealth digital otoscopy, with prescribing intervention where clinically indicated
  • Heart Check Scotland: point-of-care lipid testing and cardiovascular risk assessment using ASSIGN v2.0, with onward management and referral
  • Menopause care: assessment and treatment in line with NICE NG23
  • Weight management: structured, in-branch oral GLP-1 services with full clinical review and follow-up
  • Managing patients under serial prescribing and supporting chronic medication service reviews
  • Working alongside local GP practices and the wider primary care team on shared caseloads and referrals
  • Contributing to clinical governance: SOP development, audit, significant event review and peer discussion
  • Supporting and mentoring pre-registration trainees, foundation pharmacists and colleagues working towards their own prescribing qualification

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Essential:

• MPharm or equivalent, with current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Annotation as an Independent Prescriber on the GPhC register
• A defined scope of practice you are confident working within, and the judgement to know its edges
• Sound clinical reasoning, consultation a...