THE STATION PRACTICE
TITLE: Clinical Pharmacist (Prescriber)
REPORTING TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinical)
THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administration)
Lead Pharmacist (Clinical)
LOCATION: The Station Practice – Hastings (On site)
DATE: September 2025
HOURS: 37.5 hours working Monday - Friday
HOLIDAY: 5 weeks including bank holidays (FTE)
SALARY: According to experience (up to £48K on GP experience and relevant qualifications including IP)
Job Summary:
This exciting new role provides the opportunity to work with the General Practice and alongside a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to support the delivery of pharmacy services in general practice.
You will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking, pharmacy team delivering medicines management across a PCN with the support of a named pharmacist. The team comprises supervising pharmacists, lead clinical pharmacist, and GP to support the team and individuals.
You will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews, to proactively manage people with polypharmacy and multi-morbidities.
You will have the opportunity to attend meetings at practice, PCN, and ICB level, deliver training to practice and pharmacy team colleagues, mentor students and junior colleagues, and develop innovative services in response to local gaps in healthcare.
Desirable: CPPE qualification, IP, confident in prescribing, EMIS and GP Practice experience
Job description
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.
The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
Main duties of the job
· Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of
· patients in GP practices
· Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication
· review
· Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community
pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
· Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by
supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and
addressing medicines related issues
· Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes
between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
· Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
· Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
· Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
· Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing
· Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
· Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines
· Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics, dependence forming medication reviews.
· Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
· Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
· Review Pathology results for patients on known medicines and as part of medication review
· Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around
doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)
· Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
* Frail elderly
* Poly-pharmacy
* Renal impairment
* Hepatic impairment
* Substance misuse
* Patients on high risk medicines
* STOPP/START identified patients
* Revolving door Hospital admissions
· Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice
· Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
· Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR and NMS
· Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change
· Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs
· Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicine
· Working closely with the pharmacy team and supporting CQC Arden searches and MOIS ICB Project work
· Providing support to pharmacy technicians, junior pharmacists and Lead Pharmacist
· Any ad hoc duties as needed
You will be key in supporting the delivery of SMRs, LTC, high risk medication reviews, Auditing, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to respond to queries, sign prescriptions and problem solve. Your role will impact on the patient's medication journey, focusing on de-prescribing, improving quality of care, and reducing medicines-related admissions. You will manage long-term conditions, support hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, provide specific advice for those on polypharmacy, and support the practices to develop the clinical pharmacist role. You will support the prescription team and ensure pharmacists in the network, and other local networks, collaborate ideas and support each other.
You will be enthusiastic and adaptable to change, with excellent clinical skills, and a good level of competence in the use of IT.
You should exhibit good organisational skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders including patients, families, and carers.
You will be comfortable working independently and as part of multiple teams as described.
Qualifications & Training for this job
NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position
and the components of the role being carried out
· Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General
· Pharmaceutical Council
· Minimum of 1-2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
· EMIS Web Experience
· May hold a prescribing qualification with areas of specialism
· May hold or be working towards a CPPE programme
· Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
Behavioural Competencies and Skills for This Job:
· Demonstrates general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
· Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states / long term conditions identified by local
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
· Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals
· Demonstrates ability to use skills in a range of routine situations requiring analysis or
comparison of a range of options
· Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern
and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
· Is able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of
conduct
· Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance
Collaborative Working Relationships
· Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role in patient care.
· Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals, and other NHS/private organisations, e.g., ICBs).
· Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.
· Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
· Liaises with ICB colleagues, including ICB pharmacists, on prescribing-related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
· Liaises with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
· Liaises with other GP practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients.
Team Contribution and Service Delivery
· Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and applies this appropriately within the workplace.
· Contributes to and demonstrates understanding of the workplace vision.
· Demonstrates ability to improve quality within the limitations of the service.
· Reviews progress over the past year and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
· Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
· Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
· Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
· Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
· Identifies and resolves risk management issues in line with policy and protocol.
· Follows professional and organisational policies and procedures relating to performance management.
· Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.
Education, Training and Development
· Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
· Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process.
· Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan, with supervision from a more experienced colleague.
· Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity.
· Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes.
· Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
Research and Evaluation
* Demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate and review literature.
* Demonstrates the ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at a local level.
* Demonstrates the ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice.
* Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance.
Communication
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
* Communicate effectively with other team members and work
* Communicate effectively with patients and carers
* Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Confidentiality:
* In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
* In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
* Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
* Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
* Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
* Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
* Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
* Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
* Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
* Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
* Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
* Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
* Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
* Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance.
* Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient's needs.
* Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Expenses:
* The practice would reimburse the GPhC registration and indemnity fees according to the hours and duration worked for the practice.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £48,000.00-£48,500.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* On-site parking
Application question(s):
* Are you IP confident and able to prescribe?
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: GPCLINPHARMPX/SEP25/STATION