GP Practice in Wales
Pharmacist (Primary Care) Furnace House Surgery

The closing date is 11 December 2026

Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and patient focused Clinical Pharmacist to lead and deliver a specialist pharmacy service within the GP practice. The postholder will play a key role in improving patient outcomes through medicines optimisation, medication reviews, chronic disease management, and safe prescribing practices. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, the pharmacist will provide expert pharmaceutical advice, develop personalised care plans for patients with complex needs, support public health initiatives, and act as a liaison between primary, community, and secondary care services. The role will contribute to the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective patient care while supporting national and local NHS priorities, including care home services, anticoagulation management, and reducing medicines related harm

Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead and deliver a specialist pharmacy service within the GP practice, ensuring safe, effective care, use of medicines. Key duties include:

• Managing medication reviews and polypharmacy assessments, considering both clinical and social factors affecting patients.
• Supporting medicines optimisation, particularly for patients with long-term conditions.
• Developing individual pharmaceutical care plans for high risk patients, such as those who are frail, frequently admitted to hospital, or experiencing disease exacerbations.
• Conducting medicines reconciliation following hospital admissions, discharges, care home transfers, and new patient registrations.
• Reviewing and acting on recommendations from community pharmacists, including Medicines Use Reviews and Discharge Medication Reviews.
• Developing systems to support the management of minor ailments.
• Acting as the key link between the GP practice, community pharmacies, and secondary care providers.
• Resolving medication related queries from patients and practice staff, including prescription and repeat medication issues.
• Providing direct patient care, including support for patients and families in complex or sensitive situations.
• Maintaining professional accountability and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation and clinical guidelines.
• Supporting practice and national service initiatives, such as anticoagulation NOAC services and Care Home Directed Enhanced Services DES.

About us
Furnace House Surgery is a forward thinking and innovative GP practice driven by passion to put the patient at the centre of everything.

As a Practice and as colleagues, we are committed to providing each other with an open, friendly and supportive environment.

We are a long established 7 partner practice with interest in training and education, situated in West Wales. We have approximately 15,000 patients.

We use the EMIS clinical system, and we are looking for someone who will share our commitment to providing excellent healthcare to our patients, and become part of our team.

Details
Date posted: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 9 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: M0044-26-0373
Job locations: Furnace House Surgery, St. Andrews Road, Carmarthen, SA31 1EX, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Title: Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist to cover maternity
Location: Furnace House Surgery
Accountability Professionally: General Pharmaceutical Registration Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice
Managerially: To Practice Manager
Clinically: To GPs

JOB PURPOSE
To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the practice.
To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare
To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy
To develop the practice pharmacist role, becoming a core member of the practice team working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibility for leading and delivering a specialised pharmacy service to the surgery.

PATIENT FOCUSED ROLES

• Responsible for developing and managing systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.
• To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management.
• To develop pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients as appropriate e.g targeting those with frequent admissions/exacerbations/frail elderly etc..
• To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into or out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication related issues with the patient or other professionals.
• Review and action appropriate recommendations from Medicines Use Reviews/Discharge Medication reviews identified by community pharmacists.
• To develop a system to support the treatment of minor ailments.
• To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations and antibiotic campaigns.
• To act as the liaison with Community Pharmacy and Secondary Care.
• To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients related to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.
• To have direct patient contact, which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact with terminally ill patients and their relatives, carers.
• To be accountable for one's own professional actions, in line with local and national guidelines and medicines legislation.
• To support the practice with initiatives i.e. NOAC service and Care Home DES.

Improving Medicines Management and Safety

• Responsibility for leading and delivering a specialised pharmacy service to the surgery.
• To review clinical correspondence from secondary care to ensure recommendations to initiate new medicines adhere to the formulary and local guidance and take necessary action where appropriate.
• To deal with highly complex drug or medication related information, including challenging prescribing behaviour not in line with health board or national recommendations.
• To review existing and develop new repeat prescribing policies, including employing mechanisms to reduce medicines waste.
• To lead, develop and undertake clinical audit related to medicines to advise the team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• To ensure appropriate management of controlled drugs within the practice and to advise the team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines within the practice, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• To undertake re-authorisations as part of the repeat prescribing system.
• To ensure safe, evidence based and cost-effective prescribing in accordance with national and locally agreed standards and priorities, i.e. implementation of NICE guidelines, All Wales Medicines Strategy Group recommendations and Safety Agency alerts and warnings.
• To target review of medicines known to cause a high number of adverse drug events and admissions i.e. hypnotics, anticoagulants, NSAIDs.
• To develop and implement policies to improve GP practice medicines management services i.e. establish clear recall systems to meet the monitoring requirements of drugs.
• To investigate medicines related incidents to learn and improve practice within a culture of continuous improvement.
• To contribute to the delivery of GMS Quality Outcomes Framework.
• To contribute to /manage relevant enhanced services e.g. shared care drugs/anticoagulation/NOAC/ Care Home DES.
• To make recommendations on prescribing choices.

Education and Communication

• To provide professional and expert advice to GPs, nurses, practice staff and patients on all aspects of drug treatment (doses, monitoring, interactions, side-effects etc).
• To develop and provide expert clinical advice to clinical meetings, including educational sessions for the practice staff.
• To explore and implement ways to effectively educate and involve patients regarding their medicines.
• To co-ordinate and develop appropriate and educational material, including producing patient information leaflets and posters and run medicine awareness projects.
• To convey complex therapeutic and clinical information to GPs, practice staff, care providers, community pharmacists, unqualified healthcare workers and patients in a suitable manner and format.
• To support the development of trainee pharmacists.

Partnership Working

• To develop excellent professional links with relevant health and social care colleagues, including community pharmacists, community resource and domiciliary teams, care homes, carers, acute care colleagues etc
• To network with other practice based pharmacists to share best practices
• To work closely with health board medicines management teams to ensure awareness of local and national priorities and initiatives

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of conducting medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
• Experience managing patients with long-term conditions and complex medication needs.
• Experience of medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge or transfer of care.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Ability to provide expert medication advice to patients and healthcare professionals.
• Experience identifying and resolving medication-related issues.
• Knowledge and application of clinical guidelines, prescribing practices, and medicines legislation.
• Strong workload management, organisational, and communication skills.
• Experience using clinical record and prescribing systems.

Desirable

• Previous experience working in General Practice, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), or NHS primary care services.
• Independent prescribing experience.
• Experience of polypharmacy, frailty, and care home medication reviews.
• Experience supporting anticoagulation/NOAC services.
• Experience in audit, service development, quality improvement, and prescribing optimisation projects.
• Experience working collaboratively with community pharmacies and secondary care providers.

Additional criteria
Essential NA
Desirable NA

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent Prescriber qualification (or willingness to work towards obtaining this qualification).
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working as a Clinical Pharmacist in primary care, general practice, community pharmacy, or hospital pharmacy.
• Sound knowledge of medicines optimisation, prescribing, and medication review processes.
• Understanding of long-term condition management and polypharmacy.
• Knowledge of current NHS policies, medicines legislation, and clinical governance requirements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Competent IT skills, including use of clinical systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and manage competing demands

Desirable

• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy qualification or equivalent.
• Previous experience working in General Practice
• Qualification in Independent Prescribing.
• Experience of chronic disease management clinics.
• Experience of medicines reconciliation and care home medication reviews.
• Knowledge of Welsh NHS prescribing initiatives and quality improvement programmes.
• Experience of EMIS Web and/or Vision clinical systems.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: GP Practice in Wales
Address: Furnace House Surgery, St. Andrews Road, Carmarthen, SA31 1EX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://gpwales.co.uk

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Practice Nurse Katy Cook, katy.cook@wales.nhs.uk, 01267236616

Applications from job seekers who require Skilled worker sponsorship are welcome; privacy notice available from the employer.