Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist
Queensway Medical Centre
Poulton-le-fylde, FY6 7STView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
31 December 2026
71 days leftJob description
Practice Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist We are looking for a highly motivated and adaptable registered independent prescribing pharmacist to join our...
- Undertake face-to-face and remote consultations
- Perform structured and complex medication reviews
- Independently prescribe medications within competence
- Manage patients with:
- long-term conditions
- on gabapentin/opiates
- polypharmacy
- high-risk medications
- Deliver clinics where appropriate
- Lead delivery of practice and medicines optimisation priorities
- Support achievement of:
- QOF targets
- Medicine Optimisation contract with local ICB
- PCN IIF / prescribing targets
- Promote cost-effective prescribing and formulary compliance
- Implement:
- NICE guidance
- MHRA alerts
- Undertake audits and service improvement initiatives
Prescribing Safety & Governance
- Manage monitoring systems for high-risk drugs (e.g. DMARDs, anticoagulants)
- Improve prescribing safety and reduce medication-related harm
- Support incident review and learning
Leadership & Team Management
- Provide leadership to the medicines management team
- Support training, supervision, and development
- Design and embed safe systems and workflows
- Lead change and service improvement
Practice & PCN Responsibilities
- Support delivery of:
- enhanced services
- prescribing initiatives
- Support discharge medication reconciliation
- Provide expert advice to clinicians and staff
See Job description for further information.
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation
process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching
review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure
patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge,
identify and rectify unexplained changes, perform a clinical medication review,
including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests and work with patients
and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need
post discharge.
Manage patients and health care professionals
medicine queries, including providing telephone patient advice.
Support the Practice to deliver on QOF and
locally commissioned services.
Run own special interest clinics where
responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where
medicines have a large component.
Provide medicines information and training to
Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
Review daily Pathology results for patients on
known medicines.
Lead as a source of medicines information for all
the practice team and patients (e.g. doses, side effects and out of stock
queries)
Lead on changes in evidence-based prescribing.
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.
Develop and manage new services that are built
around new medicines or NICE guidance where a new medicine/recommendations
allow the development of a new care pathway (eg DOACs)
Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general
pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas including long term
conditions.
The successful candidate joining our dynamic team must be able to demonstrate the following:
- Degree in Pharmacy
- GPhC registration
- Independent Prescriber qualification
- Experience working in General Practice / Primary Care
- Experience in clinical prescribing and medication reviews
- Experience delivering medicines optimisation
- Strong clinical knowledge of medicines and therapeutics
- Ability to work independently and within MDT
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Good IT skills (EMIS)
Desirable Criteria
- Experience leading or managing a team
- Experience with PCN/IIF/QOF/Contracts delivery
- Experience in audit and quality improvement
Personal Attributes
- Proactive and organised
- Able to prioritise workload effectively
- Leadership mindset
- Patient-focused approach
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and
- registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS
- Faculty membership
- Independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Extensive post qualification experience working with patients and the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- In-depth clinical knowledge of medicines and applied therapeutics.
- An appreciation of the nature of General Practice.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good IT skills.
- An awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
- Previous General Practice or Hospital experience is essential.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to GPs when appropriate.
- Work effectively independently and as a team member.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
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First seen
17 September 2026
Last checked
18 September 2026
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