Pharmacist Independent Prescriber

Pharmacist Independent Prescriber Permanent, full-time (42.5 hours). Part-time considered. Visa sponsorship available for suitable candidates (Skilled Worker route).

THE OPPORTUNITY Dears Pharmacy is a 26-branch Scottish community pharmacy group operating across Fife, Lothian, Glasgow and Tayside. We are recruiting a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber to take a leading clinical role in one of our branches and to help expand the prescribing services we deliver to our communities. This is not a dispensary-bound role. Our central automated dispensing hub at Lochgelly handles a substantial proportion of repeat volume, and our hub-and-spoke model is designed specifically to release pharmacist time from the bench and into the consultation room.

If you have completed your independent prescribing qualification and want to actually use it, this is a role built around that.

• Delivering NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and Pharmacy First Plus consultations, prescribing within your scope of practice
• Leading clinical service delivery in your branch, supported by a trained technician and support team
• Running and developing our private clinical services, including:
  • Dears Ear: ear health assessment and microsuction using Tympahealth digital otoscopy, with prescribing intervention where clinically indicated
  • Heart Check Scotland: point-of-care lipid testing and cardiovascular risk assessment using ASSIGN v2.0, with onward management and referral
  • Menopause care: assessment and treatment in line with NICE NG23
  • Weight management: structured, in-branch oral GLP-1 services with full clinical review and follow-up
  • Managing patients under serial prescribing and supporting chronic medication service reviews
  • Working alongside local GP practices and the wider primary care team on shared caseloads and referrals
  • Contributing to clinical governance: SOP development, audit, significant event review and peer discussion
  • Supporting and mentoring pre-registration trainees, foundation pharmacists and colleagues working towards their own prescribing qualification

Essential:

• MPharm or equivalent, with current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Annotation as an Independent Prescriber on the GPhC register
• A defined scope of practice you are confident working within, and the judgement to know its edges
• Sound clinical reasoning, consultation a...