Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and adaptable registered independent prescribing pharmacist to join our friendly and enthusiastic team at Queensway Medical Centre. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a forward thinking practice working alongside our Medicine Management team, delivering high-quality, patient centred care through effective medicines optimisation, prescribing, and leadership of the practice pharmacy function.

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities

• Undertake face-to-face and remote consultations
• Perform structured and complex medication reviews
• Independently prescribe medications within competence
• Manage patients with long-term conditions, on gabapentin/opiates, polypharmacy, high-risk medications
• Deliver clinics where appropriate

Medicines Optimisation

• Lead delivery of practice and medicines optimisation priorities
• Support achievement of QOF targets, Medicine Optimisation contract with local ICB, PCN IIF / prescribing targets
• Promote cost-effective prescribing and formulary compliance
• Implement NICE guidance, MHRA alerts
• Undertake audits and service improvement initiatives

Prescribing Safety & Governance

• Manage monitoring systems for high-risk drugs (e.g. DMARDs, anticoagulants)
• Improve prescribing safety and reduce medication-related harm
• Support incident review and learning

Leadership & Team Management

• Provide leadership to the medicines management team
• Support training, supervision, and development
• Design and embed safe systems and workflows
• Lead change and service improvement

Practice & PCN Responsibilities

• Support delivery of enhanced services and prescribing initiatives
• Support discharge medication reconciliation
• Provide expert advice to clinicians and staff

See Job description for further information.

About us
The successful candidate joining our dynamic team must be able to demonstrate the following:

Essential Criteria
Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy
• GPhC registration
• Independent Prescriber qualification

Experience

• Experience working in General Practice / Primary Care
• Experience in clinical prescribing and medication reviews
• Experience delivering medicines optimisation

Skills

• Strong clinical knowledge of medicines and therapeutics
• Ability to work independently and within MDT
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good IT skills (EMIS)

Desirable Criteria

• Experience leading or managing a team
• Experience with PCN/IIF/QOF/Contracts delivery
• Experience in audit and quality improvement

Personal Attributes

• Proactive and organised
• Able to prioritise workload effectively
• Leadership mindset
• Patient-focused approach

Job responsibilities
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge, identify and rectify unexplained changes, perform a clinical medication review, including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries, including providing telephone patient advice.

Support the Practice to deliver on QOF and locally commissioned services.

Run own special interest clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines.

Lead as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. doses, side effects and out of stock queries)

Lead on changes in evidence-based prescribing.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance where a new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway (eg DOACs)

Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas including long term conditions.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
• Independent prescribing qualification

Desirable

• Extensive post qualification experience working with patients and the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• In-depth clinical knowledge of medicines and applied therapeutics.
• An appreciation of the nature of General Practice.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good IT skills.
• An awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
• Previous General Practice or Hospital experience is essential.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to GPs when appropriate.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

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.

Employer details
Employer name: Queensway Medical Centre
Address: Queensway, Poulton-le-fylde, Lancashire, FY6 7ST
Employer's website: Queensway Medical Centre website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Practice Manager
Jenny Naden
jenny.naden@nhs.net