Job Summary
Join our friendly, innovative and supportive GP practice

Brockwood Medical Practice is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care within general practice and who wishes to continue developing their clinical knowledge and prescribing skills.

As a training practice, we are committed to supporting the development of our staff and have an excellent reputation for education, mentorship and innovation.

Main Duties of the Job

• Undertaking structured medication reviews.
• Supporting patients with long-term conditions.
• Optimising medicines and reducing prescribing risks.
• Managing medication queries.
• Supporting care home and frailty patients.
• Undertaking clinical audits and quality improvement projects.
• Supporting QOF, enhanced services and prescribing optimisation.
• Working collaboratively with GPs, nurses and the wider primary care team.
• Providing prescribing advice and education to colleagues.

About Us
Brockwood Medical Practice is a friendly, forward-thinking, high-performing training practice located in a beautiful rural and semi-rural area, caring for a diverse patient population. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding patient care while creating a supportive and rewarding environment for our team.

Our multidisciplinary workforce includes GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, First Contact Physiotherapists, Practice Nurses, Nursing Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers and an experienced administrative and reception team. Working alongside such a broad range of skilled professionals provides excellent opportunities for collaborative working, shared learning and professional development.

We consistently achieve excellent clinical outcomes, with high QOF performance demonstrating our commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. Our patients value the service we provide, reflected in an outstanding 94% overall satisfaction rating in the latest GP Patient Survey.

Job Responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities:

• Undertake structured medication reviews for patients with complex medication regimens.
• Optimise medicines for patients with long-term conditions.
• Conduct medication reviews following hospital discharge.
• Manage medicines reconciliation following discharge from hospital or outpatient appointments.
• Provide prescribing advice to GPs and other clinicians.
• Support safe prescribing for patients receiving high-risk medicines.
• Undertake medication monitoring in accordance with national and local guidance.
• Review repeat prescribing requests.
• Respond to medicines-related patient queries.
• Manage prescribing for care home residents where appropriate.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Provide patient education regarding medicines and treatment options.
• Support deprescribing where clinically appropriate.
• Monitor prescribing safety alerts and implement necessary actions.
• Management of patients with long term conditions

Medicines Optimisation

• Promote evidence-based prescribing.
• Undertake prescribing audits.
• Support QOF achievement.
• Support Medicines Optimisation initiatives.
• Improve prescribing quality indicators.
• Reduce medicines waste.
• Monitor prescribing budgets where appropriate.
• Implement MHRA safety alerts.
• Support implementation of NICE guidance.

Quality Improvement

• Participate in clinical audit.
• Lead quality improvement projects.
• Analyse prescribing data.
• Identify opportunities to improve patient care.
• Support achievement of national and local contractual requirements.
• Assist with CQC preparation.

Patient Safety

• Identify prescribing risks.
• Investigate medicines-related incidents.
• Participate in Significant Event Reviews.
• Promote safe prescribing systems.
• Support antimicrobial stewardship.

Teaching and Training
The Clinical Pharmacist will:

• Support trainee Clinical Pharmacists.
• Support Community Pharmacist placements.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary education.
• Deliver medicines education sessions to practice staff.
• Participate in practice educational meetings.
• Maintain their own continuing professional development.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Master's degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Clinical experience in primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber qualification.
• Primary Care experience.
• Completion (or working towards) the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.
• Experience using SystmOne.
• Experience of clinical audit.
• Experience of quality improvement.
• Experience of QOF and Enhanced Services.
• Experience of supervising or mentoring learners.

Experience
Essential

• Knowledge
  • Medicines optimisation.
  • Long-term condition management.
  • National prescribing guidance.
  • NICE guidance.
  • Clinical governance.
  • Patient safety.
• Skills
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Strong clinical assessment skills.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Excellent organisational skills.
  • IT literacy.
  • Ability to prioritise workload.

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).