Senior Pharmacist Lead – Primary Care Medicines

Avon Local Medical Committee Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Study leave

Annual leave

Birthday day off

Fresh fruit & drinks

GP Training practice

Park-Run Practice

Job summary

Air Balloon Surgery in Bristol is seeking a Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist to lead our practice pharmacist team. The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and focuses on medicines management, clinical leadership, and improving patient safety within primary care.

The successful candidate will be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, able to provide clinical supervision and drive service development, audits, and quality improvement across the practice.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years post-graduate experience.
• Independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience.
• Experience leading a pharmacy team within a GP practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-disciplinary pharmacy team to meet medicines management service needs.
• Manage repeat prescribing, authorisations and renewals.
• Perform medication reviews, focusing on polypharmacy and high-risk patients.
• Lead medicines optimisation, audits, and local ICB projects.

Skills

Independent prescriber

Primary care prescribing

Team leadership

Clinical pharmacy

Education

MPharm degree

GPhC registration

Postgraduate clinical training

Job description

Air Balloon Surgery in Bristol is seeking a Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist to lead our practice pharmacist team. The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and focuses on medicines management, clinical leadership, and improving patient safety within primary care.

The successful candidate will be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, able to provide clinical supervision and drive service development, audits, and quality improvement across the practice.