Primary Care Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Argyle Surgery; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Argyle Surgery is seeking an experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist to lead advanced clinical practice within a friendly primary care team in Greater London. You will work autonomously, optimize medications, prescribe within your scope, and collaborate with GPs, ANPs and the wider MDT.

As a senior team member you will mentor junior staff, contribute to service development, quality improvement, medicines safety, and education, while supporting a culture of high-quality patient care and continuous

Qualifications

• Post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; active in Faculty membership or working toward it.

Responsibilities

• Deliver autonomous, patient-centred clinical pharmacy services within the practice.
• Lead medicines optimisation, prescribing within scope, and care planning for long-term conditions.
• Collaborate with GPs, ANPs and MDT to improve patient outcomes.
• Support and develop junior pharmacists, technicians and trainees in Foundation training year.
• Drive quality improvement, medicines safety programmes and audits.

Skills

Independent prescribing

GPhC registration

RPS member

Faculty membership

Education

Post-graduate diploma or equivalent

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly and progressive primary care team. This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist who is looking to take the next step in their career, building on strong clinical foundations while developing greater responsibility and influence within a well-established practice environment.

You will work as an autonomous clinician, supporting patients with long term conditions, medication optimisation and prescribing, while collaborating closely with GPs, ANPs and the wider multidisciplinary team. The role sits within an established pharmacy team led by our Chief Pharmacist, providing access to senior clinical leadership and support whilst allowing the successful candidate to develop their own areas of expertise.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care, improving outcomes and contributing to service development. This role would suit either an established senior pharmacist or an ambitious clinical pharmacist who is ready to broaden their skills and take on a more senior position within primary care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will deliver high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy services across the practice, including structured medication reviews, long-term condition management, medicines optimisation and clinical prescribing. They will work autonomously within their scope of practice while collaborating closely with GPs, ANPs and the wider multidisciplinary team.

The role includes providing expert medicines advice to patients and colleagues, supporting safe and effective prescribing, undertaking medication reviews for patients with complex needs and contributing to care planning for vulnerable patient groups including those with multiple long-term conditions

As a senior member of the pharmacy team, the postholder will help support and develop a Clinical Pharmacist, Prescription Technician and trainee pharmacists undertaking their foundation training year. The role offers an opportunity to contribute to the development of future pharmacists while fostering a positive learning environment and supporting high standards of clinical practice across the team. It also includes contributing to quality improvement initiatives, medicines safety programmes, prescribing audits and the ongoing development of pharmacy services within the practice.

About us

We are a friendly and forward thinking GP surgery, dedicatedto providing high quality, patient centred care to our local community inEaling, W13. We serve a diverse patient population, and pride ourselves onoffering a welcoming and supportive environment for both patients and staff.

We have a strong training and development ethos. In additionto being a teaching practice for GP registrars, we also train preregisteredpharmacists. As a training and learning focused practice, we support ongoingprofessional development, and value teamwork, communication, and mutual respectacross all roles.

Our Team

Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, Nurses,Pharmacists, Healthcare Assistants, and administrative staff, who work closelytogether to ensure efficient and compassionate service delivery. We arecommitted to continuous improvement and staff development.The practice is supported by a multidisciplinary partnership comprising GP, pharmacy and ANP leadership, reflecting our commitment to integrated team working and service innovation.

What We Offer

We offer 33 days pro rata annual leave, including BankHolidays, and access to join the NHS Pension Scheme.

We have excellent transport links, including a nearbyCrossrail station, multiple underground stations, and bus routes.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The post holder is an experienced pharmacist who acts withintheir professional boundaries as an autonomous clinician and senior member ofthe pharmacy team at The Argyle Surgery. The role combines advanced clinicalpractice, medicines optimisation, independent prescribing, quality improvementand service development. The post holder will work closely with GPs, AdvancedNurse Practitioners and the wider multidisciplinary team to improve patientoutcomes and deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

As a senior member of the pharmacy team, the post holderwill support the development of the Clinical Pharmacist, PrescriptionTechnician and Foundation Trainee Pharmacists. The successful candidate will besupported by an experienced Chief Pharmacist as well as the Clinical Lead and willcontribute to the continued development of pharmacy services within thepractice.

Patientfacing long term condition clinics

Independentlymanage patients with long-term conditions, undertake reviews, optimisemedicines and prescribe within scope of competence.

StructuredMedication Reviews

Undertakestructured medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy and complexneeds.

Managementof common/minor/self- limiting ailments

Managing caseload for patients withcommon/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practiceand limits of competence.

Signpostingto community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionalswhere appropriate

Manage own caseload for patients anddiagnosis people with long term and/or acute/common conditions/ailments whileremaining within scope of practice and limits of competence.

Referringto GP and/or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Patientfacing medicines support

Provideface-to-face and remote medicines advice clinics.

Medicineinformation to practice staff and patients

Answersall medicinerelated enquiriesfrom GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. communitypharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Providingfollow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplannedhospital admissions

Implementpractice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at riskof an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines.

Workwith case managers, multidisciplinary (health and social care) review teams,hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-relatedrisk for readmission and patient harm.

Putin place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-riskpatient groups.

Managementof medicines at discharge from hospital

Toreconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care andinto care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.Manage these changes without referral to a GP

Performa clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care

planincluding dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working with

patientsand community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines

theyneed post discharge and working with patients and community pharmacists

toensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Managesystems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-

riskgroups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care

homes).

Workin partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctors and

clinicalpharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine

relatedproblems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. Train morejunior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainees on high qualitymedicines reconciliation.

Telephonetriage

Ensurethat patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for theappropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathologytest results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term conditionreviews etc.

Repeatprescribing

Engagewith practice repeat prescribing policy use and improvement. Manage therepeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests forrepeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates;, andensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests and reviewswhere required.

Riskstratification

Design,development and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts ofpatients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Responsibilityfor management of risk stratification tools on behalf of the practice.

Workingwith patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicinesoptimisation.

Servicedevelopment

Developand manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance,where a new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new carepathway.

AntibioticStewardship

Promotion ofevidence-based practice and interventions to encourage adherence withprevailing antimicrobial prescribing policy.

Work closely with organisation, ICB & PCNleads to identify areas where are reduction in inappropriate prescribing ofantimicrobials is high priority.

Informationmanagement

Analyse,interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to supportdecision-making.

MedicinesQuality Improvement Programmes

Identify andprovide leadership on areas of prescribing and medicines improvements.

Conductclinical audits and improve projects or work with colleagues such as GPregistrars, practice managers etc.

Undertake QI& audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Partners or ChiefPharmacist, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction withthe practice team.

Present resultsand provide leadership on suggested changes. Contribute to national and localresearch initiatives.

Identifynational and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety throughthe use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emergingevidence form clinical trials. Encourage reporting of medicines safety issuesand clinical interventions in line with NRLS and local reporting mechanisms.

Manage theprocess of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Care QualityCommission

Provideleadership to the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliantwith CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Undertake riskassessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Implementationof local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitorpractice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list formedicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) orsubject to shared care (amber drugs).

Liaise directlywith hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned tospecialists. Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formularythat is hosted on the practices computer system.

Suggest anddevelop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about theagreed formulary choice and local recommendations.

Auditingpractices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Providenewsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribersknowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniquesknown to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.

Educationand Training

Proactivelydevise, lead and provide education and training to junior pharmacists,pharmacy technicians, trainees and primary healthcare team on therapeuticsand medicines optimisation.

To supportpublic health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public healthprogrammes available to general public.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

• post-registration experience in patient-facing clinical pharmacy practice, with evidence of autonomous working and medicines optimisation.

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.

£54,500 to £59,500 a yearDepending on experience