Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

The post holder is an independent prescribing Clinical Pharmacist who works within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of Pharmacists in General Practice. They are supported by a GP who will develop, manage, support, and mentor them.

• Review and optimize medicines for patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma). Review ongoing need for each medicine, monitoring needs, and support patients with their medicines to ensure best use. Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
• Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

• Undertake structured medication reviews with patients in practice/home visits.

• Manage caseload for patients with common/minor/self‑limiting ailments within scope of practice and limits of competence. Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

• Provide patient‑facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

• Answer all medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy), and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Provide follow‑up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high‑risk patient groups.

• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.
• Work with patients and Community Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high‑risk groups (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time (e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long‑term condition reviews).

• Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
• Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches.

• Contribute to early morning/evening clinics (e.g., 7 am starts or 8 pm finishes).
• Provide pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services with medicinal components.

• Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Undertake simple audits of prescribing as directed by the GPs, feedback results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

• Contribute to debriefing of ARRS pharmacy team members within the practice and support ongoing learning and professional development.

• Run CQC searches in Systmone to help the practice identify clinical risks.
• Monitor patients prescribed high‑risk medications, including DOACs, for timely safety monitoring.
• Collaborate with prescription…