Practice Pharmacist
Ash Trees Surgery
Carnforth, LA5 9JUView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
23 October 2026
4 days leftJob description
We have an exciting new opportunity to join our team as a Practice Pharmacist. The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of...
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review & address public health & social needs of patients in GP practices
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy & wasteful prescribing
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge & work with patients & community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions & readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines, identifying & addressing medicines related issues
Interface with community & hospital pharmacy colleagues & 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 & medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients & health care professionals medicine queries
Increase quality & safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit & PDSA cycles
Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety, & cost effectiveness of prescribing
Implement drug withdrawals & alerts eg, MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
Work with primary care professional & patients to implement NICE & other evidence-based guidelines
Contribute to multimorbidity reviews & MDT reviews
Provide medicines information & training to Practice healthcare professionals & admin staff. Review Pathology results for patients on known medicines.
Act as a source of medicines information
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices.
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy 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.
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.
Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)
Supporting our Women's health lead in delivering menopause medication reviews, ensuring safe and effective evidence based prescribing, to optimise patient outcomes
- A comprehensive induction to the role and training plan
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Incremental annual leave scheme plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to NHS discount scheme
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimization issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Good IT Skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal patter and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/ motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Self-Motivated and adaptable
- Excellent patient manner and interpersonal skills
- High level of personal integrity
- Willingness to change practice in the light of experience
- Possess a professional appearance and manner
Desirable: - Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
7 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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