Orchard Surgery is seeking a motivated and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding pharmacy team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting safe and effective prescribing, medicines optimisation, and medication management across the practice.
Responsibilities
- Undertake structured medication reviews for patients with long-term conditions and complex medication needs.
- Optimise prescribing in line with local and national guidance.
- Review polypharmacy and reduce inappropriate prescribing where clinically appropriate.
- Support safe prescribing and cost-effective medicines management.
- Identify and address medication‑related risks.
- Review hospital letters, clinic correspondence and discharge summaries.
- Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge.
- Implement medication changes authorised within clinical correspondence according to practice protocols.
- Ensure medication records are updated accurately and promptly.
- Liaise with secondary care providers regarding medication queries where required.
- Manage medication‑related queries from patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
- Provide specialist advice on medication use, side effects, contraindications and monitoring requirements.
- Support the practice team with complex prescribing decisions.
- Conduct face‑to‑face, telephone and remote consultations for medication reviews.
- Assess adherence and support patients in understanding their treatment plans.
- Review high‑risk medications and monitoring requirements.
- Manage patients allocated through GP triage systems where medication expertise is required.
- Refer patients to GPs or other healthcare professionals when concerns fall outside the pharmacist's scope of practice.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records using EMIS.
- Participate in prescribing audits and quality improvement projects.
- Support achievement of QOF, IIF and other contractual requirements.
- Contribute to significant event reviews and medicines safety initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with CQC standards and professional guidance.
- Work collaboratively with GPs, nursing staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Provide education and prescribing support to practice staff.
- Attend clinical meetings and multidisciplinary team discussions.
- Contribute to the development of medicines management processes within the practice.
Experience
- Experience working in General Practice, Primary Care Network or a patient‑facing clinical pharmacy role.
- Excellent knowledge of medicines optimisation and prescribing safety.
- Strong understanding of long‑term condition management.
- Ability to interpret and implement medication changes from clinical correspondence.
- Excellent communication and consultation skills.
- Ability to prioritise workload and work independently.
- Competent IT skills and experience using clinical systems.
- Experience using SystmOne and Ardens.
- Experience undertaking Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs).
- Knowledge of QOF, IIF and NHS primary care contractual requirements.
- Experience supporting medicines optimisation within primary care.
Qualifications
- Registered Pharmacist with current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or UK recognised equivalent.
- Qualified independent prescriber or working towards this.
- Primary Care Network (PCN) or GP practice experience.
- Experience using SystmOne or similar clinical systems.
- Experience supporting long‑term condition management.
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.
