Pharmacist - Whitchurch Medical Centre

Integrated Care System; Whitchurch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established GP practice in Whitchurch seeks a passionate Practice Pharmacist to enhance medication management in primary care. You will work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, optimize medicines use, and support long-term patient care. The practice promotes a friendly work environment with opportunities for flexible working arrangements and substantial professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Support for continuous professional development

Qualifications

• GPhC-registered pharmacist with clinical expertise.
• Experience in primary care and patient-centred care essential.
• Knowledge in delivering training and facilitating change.

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured medication reviews for patients with chronic conditions.
• Support the management of long-term conditions.
• Contribute to quality improvement projects and safe prescribing practices.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Medicines optimisation

Teamwork

Independent working

Education

Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)

Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Are you a passionate and proactive pharmacist looking to make a real difference in patient care? Were seeking a PracticePharmacistto join our forward-thinking team and play a key role in improving medication management and supporting long-term condition care in a friendly primary care setting.

What You'll Do:

Work closely with GPs, nurses, and other team members to optimise medicines use

Conduct structured medication reviews and manage repeat prescribing processes

Support patients in managing chronic conditions through expert pharmaceutical care

Contribute to quality improvement projects and promote safe prescribing practices

What Were Looking For:

GPhC-registered pharmacist with excellent clinical knowledge and communication skills

Experience or interest in primary care, medicines optimisation, and patient-centred care

Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

Why Join Us?

Flexible working arrangements

Be at the forefront of delivering integrated care and improving health outcomes in the community

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Role Practice Pharmacist

As aPractice Pharmacist, you will play a central role in supporting the safe and effective use of medicines within our GP practice. Working closely with GPs, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to high-quality patient care by providing clinical expertise in medicines management.

Week-to-week responsibilities include:

Conductingstructured medication reviews, particularly for patients with long-term conditions, polypharmacy, or those on high-risk medications.

Reviewing hospital discharge summaries, outpatient letters, and medication changes to ensure accurate and timely updates to patient records.

Supporting long-term condition managementunder appropriate supervision and/or within scope of practice.

Providingmedicines optimisation adviceto clinicians and contributing to prescribing audits, cost-effective prescribing, and quality improvement initiatives.

Supportingclinical safety alertsand ensuring adherence to national and local prescribing guidance.

You will typically report to theGP leadandPractice Manager

About us

The Practice is situated in Whitchurch and it benefits from a range of shops and restaurants locally. Whitchurch Medical Centres team comprises of 5 GP Partners, and 5 GP assistants, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 Healthcare Assistants and is supported by a highly effective and friendly admin and reception team. We are proud to be a research ready, teaching practice for medical and nursing students as well as a training practice.

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE

To improve quality, safety, rational and cost effective prescribing to patients of GP practices.

To support the practice in the implementation of patient focused prudent healthcare and approved evidence-based prescribing strategies.

To provide professional expertise and develop the clinical practice based pharmacist role in a GP practice delivering services to patients, becoming a core member of the practice team, working effectively with other health and social care professionals

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. SUPPORT TO PRACTICE

To implement up to date evidence based drug, therapeutic and prescribing practice to patients.

To plan, co-ordinate and deliver Practice based prescribing projects and audits which meet the deadlines set out in the contractual framework.

To agree work plans with the practice to achieve objectives in key therapeutic areas

To provide highly specialised advise on an individual patient basis regarding prescribing and medicines for GP.

To plan, organise and undertake patient facing medication reviews in the practice by providing reasoned argument and explanation of complex medicine and disease related information, collaboratively agree with the patient (or carer) a management plan. This may require challenging previously held beliefs about medicines and will require tact empathy persuasion and developed consultation skills.. e.g polypharmacy medication reviews with elderly frail patients on multiple medicines and chronic diseases. e.g. persuading a patient to stop their sleeping tablet.

To work with healthcare professionals and appropriate support staff to analyse and review current prescribing systems and policies, to consider options for improvement and propose changes to those policies; to plan and arrange implementation of improved systems by all disciplines within the practice team and local pharmacies eg repeat prescribing system in GP practice,

To act upon discharge advice information from hospital, medicines reconciliation and MURs and DMRs from community pharmacy

To contribute to and facilitate therapeutic educational meetings with both small and large groups of healthcare professionals of the practice/cluster

To contribute to education of other members of the primary healthcare team in specific therapeutic areas and the reasons behind why changes should be instigated.

To work autonomously in a variety of settings including practice based clinics, care homes and patients own homes to meet the needs of the patient/GP practice.

To liaise with practice prescribing advisor, secondary care and community pharmacy to resolve medication issues where relevant

To have direct patient contact which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact with terminally ill patients and their carers

To work as an independent, to develop agree and implement patient-specific clinical management plans, assess the patient and interpret results, evaluate treatment outcomes and adjust therapy as required.

To target review of medicines known to cause a high number of adverse drug events and admissions e.g. hypnotics

To support the practice and cluster to deliver the flu vaccination programme by vaccinating patients in their homes where necessary.

Person Specification

Experience

• Medication review/ patient counselling
• Experience in clinical audit Working within a multidisciplinary team with clinicians
• Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
• Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
• Previous experience in working in a GP practice

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent graduate exit degree
• Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Specialist knowledge through a post graduate qualification e.g. Clinical/community diploma or equivalent relevant experience
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Independent prescriber
• Member of, or working towards Royal Pharmaceutical Society Faculty membership

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experienceSalary Available on Application