About the practice
Church Avenue Medical Group, located in Harrogate currently serves a list size of 11,000 patients. We have four GP partners, plus a wealth of clinical and non-clinical staff, working collaboratively to provide safe, effective, high-quality care to improve the health and wellbeing of our patient population.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our established and experienced pharmacy team (including a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Trainee Pharmacy Technician, Medicine Management clerk and Prescription Clerks) working closely with GPs and healthcare professionals within the practice.
Work Environment and Flexibility
Regular presence in the surgery is essential to maintain the high standard of patient care and effective teamwork required in our GP practice. We may offer some flexibility for hybrid work arrangements for a small portion of the week, allowing team members to balance remote work with their personal and professional responsibilities if requested.
Job purpose
The pharmacist will help to lead improvements in prescribing to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice and improve the quality and safety of patient care.
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies with ongoing support and supervision from the Senior Clinical Pharmacist as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The role will provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines reconciliation between care settings, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, and acute prescription requests for patients.
Key Responsibilities
The following describes the key responsibilities that the post–holder will deliver and/or work towards delivering after supported ongoing development.
1. Work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas and proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
2. Conduct Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) for our five care homes (residential and nursing), and lead on developing protocols specific to the care homes to improve prescribing safety.
3. Practise as a prescriber or be willing to undertake training to become a prescriber, and work alongside the general practice team.
4. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the practice and to help in tackling inequalities.
5. Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. This may include delivering education sessions to our clinical team.
6. Conduct SMR's both on the telephone and face to face to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and improve health outcomes.
7. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system through attendance of six weekly PCN pharmacist meetings and pharmacy forums.
8. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation clinics.
9. To respond to and act on MHRA drug alerts, implementing and communicating any medication changes required as a result.
10. Provide medicines information to clinical and non-clinical staff and patients.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Master's degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Commitment to become an independent prescriber
* At least 2 years post registration experience in hospital or a clinical primary care setting
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge with an understanding of principles of evidence-based healthcare, medicines optimisation and deprescribing
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiating and communication skills
* Competent user of Microsoft office programmes
* Ability to develop effective relationships within the workplace setting
* Flexible and adaptable to work environment
* Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
* Punctual
Desirable criteria
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Specialist knowledge through postgraduate diploma or equivalent
* Independent prescribing qualification
* Experience of working in primary care
* Prior experience working with prescribing and medicines management in a care home setting
Salary negotiable depending on experience.
For any queries please email Jane Simpson ( Senior Clinical Pharmacist) at
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
* Company pension
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 29/09/2025