Independent Primary Care Pharmacist

• Undertaking face-to-face, telephone and remote patient consultations.
• Assessing patients, identifying clinical needs and providing appropriate treatment and advice.
• Independently prescribing acute and repeat medication within your professional competence.
• Managing medication-related queries and providing clinical advice to patients and colleagues.
• Receiving referrals from GPs, clinical triage services and other healthcare professionals.

• Undertaking structured medication reviews to ensure safe, effective and appropriate prescribing.
• Reviewing complex medication regimes, particularly for elderly patients, patients with frailty, polypharmacy and multiple long-term conditions.
• Identifying potential drug interactions, side effects and inappropriate prescribing.
• Supporting patients to understand and manage their medication effectively.
• Reviewing medication for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge.

• Supporting the clinical management of patients with long-term conditions, including asthma, COPD, hypertension and other conditions within your competence.
• Delivering medication reviews and clinical consultations.
• Supporting patients with complex medication requirements, including care home residents.
• Undertaking home visits where clinically appropriate.
• Helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions through proactive medication management.

• Monitoring patients prescribed high-risk medication, including anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs.
• Ensuring appropriate medication monitoring, recalls and follow-up systems are maintained.
• Promoting safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing.
• Supporting antimicrobial stewardship and adherence to NICE guidance and local formularies.
• Contributing to clinical audits, prescribing reviews, QOF and quality improvement initiatives.
• Identifying and reporting prescribing incidents and contributing to learning and service improvements.

• Acting as a clinical point of contact for medicines-related matters.
• Providing advice, guidance and education to GPs, nurses and wider practice staff.
• Working collaboratively with community pharmacists, hospital teams and other healthcare professionals.
• Supporting repeat prescribing processes and improving medicines management systems.
• Contributing to enhanced services and wider practice initiatives.
• Keeping up to date with clinical developments, prescribing guidance and best practice.

Essential

• Essential qualifications
• 1. GPhC Registration Must hold current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacist.
• 2. Master's Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or an equivalent recognised pharmacy qualification.
• 3. Independent Prescribing Qualification Must hold a recognised Independent Prescribing qualification.
• 4. Clinical Pharmacy Experience Experience in medicines optimisation, medication reviews and clinical decision-making.
• 5. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Evidence of ongoing professional development and maintaining clinical competence.

Desirable

• Experience working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN).
• Experience managing long-term conditions.
• Experience undertaking structured medication reviews.
• Knowledge of NICE guidelines and local prescribing formularies.
• Experience managing high-risk medication monitoring.
• Experience working with care homes and patients with complex medication needs.
• Membership or working towards membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
• Additional qualifications in clinical pharmacy, prescribing or medicines management.