Practice Pharmacist

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 a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practices that make up the PCN.

The post holder will act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside our medicines management team. In this role, you will be supported by our Practice Pharmacist who will manage and mentor them. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and long term conditions management within the practice, undertaking clinical medicines reviews and address public health and social needs of our patients.

• 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
• Supporting our Women's health lead in delivering menopause medication reviews, ensuring safe and effective evidence based prescribing, to optimise patient outcomes,

We offer:

• 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

Date posted 07 October 2026

Pay scheme Other Salary Depending on experience

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Full-time

Reference number A

Market Street Carnforth Lancashire LA5 9JU
United Kingdom

Desirable:
Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent

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

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