Clinical Pharmacist - Dryland Surgery; Maternity Leave cover

Clinical Pharmacist - Dryland Surgery (Maternity Leave cover)

The closing date is 01 April 2026

We are looking for a clinical pharmacist to provide maternity leave cover and work in a patient facing role as part of a General Practice multi-disciplinary team, to clinically assess and treat patients at Dryland Surgery, undertake administrative processes, and provide expertise in clinical medicines management.

This will include working as an independent prescriber, cost‑effective prescribing, face‑to‑face structured medication reviews, management of long‑term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care, systems for safer prescribing, management of repeat prescription authorisations/reauthorisation, acute prescription request, providing advice and support to patients and colleagues, and public health and social care needs of patients.

Lead on quality improvement and clinical audit, manage aspects of the QOF and enhanced services.

Ensure integration and collaboration with community and hospital pharmacy, utilising skill mix, improving patient outcomes, ensuring better access to healthcare.

The role is available between 2 to 5 days per week (15.0 - 37.5 hrs per week).

Qualified (MPharm) Independent Prescriber, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Work within a multi‑disciplinary team, taking a holistic view of patients' needs, providing expert medicines advice and clinical pharmacy medicines provision, identifying and implementing prescribing changes, and referring and signposting to other services and/or health and social care professionals.

Provide patient facing medicine support and review.

Identify high risk patient cohorts and undertake risk stratification using a variety of computer based tools.

Manage your own case‑load, and run multi‑morbidity and long‑term condition clinics, undertaking medicine optimisation; care home residents with multi‑morbidity and polypharmacy; domiciliary vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission; common/minor/self‑limiting ailments.

Develop and implement prescribing, medicines safety and quality improvement policies and procedures.

Undertake telephone triage and refer patients to appropriate clinicians.

Provide out of hours/on call/extended services for patients including patient facing and telephone consultations.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight risk and support decision making.

Provide information, education, guidance and training to colleagues and other practice staff on therapeutics and medicines.

Dryland Surgery is a General Practice in the heart of Kettering, providing primary care for 13,000 service users. We offer the opportunity to work within a close working, dynamic team and the scope to provide a service that is personalised, co‑ordinated and integrated with other services.

We are committed to providing excellent patient services, presenting different opportunities to make an impact and develop new ways of working in an exciting, fast paced work environment.

Hold clinics for patients requiring face‑to‑face structured medication reviews. Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Undertake structured, face‑to‑face clinical medication reviews with patients with multi‑morbidity and polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co‑morbidities, and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.