# Independent Primary Care Pharmacist

**Company**: Well Street Surgery
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Well Street Surgery is seeking an Independent Primary Care Pharmacist to join their team. The successful candidate will work alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice within the wider PCN, improving patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team.

The post-holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicine information into and out of hospitals.

The main duties of the job include:

- Undertaking face-to-face, telephone and remote patient consultations

- Assessing patients, identifying clinical needs and providing appropriate treatment and advice

- Independently prescribing acute and repeat medication within professional competence

- Managing medication-related queries and providing clinical advice to patients and colleagues

- Receiving referrals from GPs, clinical triage services and other healthcare professionals

The post-holder will also be responsible for:

- Medicines Optimisation and Medication Reviews: undertaking structured medication reviews to ensure safe, effective and appropriate prescribing

- Long-Term Condition Management: supporting the clinical management of patients with long-term conditions, including asthma, COPD, hypertension and other conditions within competence

- Prescribing Safety and Clinical Governance: monitoring patients prescribed high-risk medication, ensuring appropriate medication monitoring, recalls and follow-up systems are maintained

- Teamwork, Leadership and Service Development: acting as a clinical point of contact for medicines-related matters, providing advice, guidance and education to GPs, nurses and wider practice staff

The ideal candidate will have:

- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacist

- Master's Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or an equivalent recognised pharmacy qualification

- Independent Prescribing Qualification

- Experience in medicines optimisation, medication reviews and clinical decision-making

- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) evidence

Desirable qualifications and experience include:

- Experience working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN)

- Experience managing long-term conditions

- Experience undertaking structured medication reviews

- Knowledge of NICE guidelines and local prescribing formularies

The salary for this post is negotiable, depending on experience.

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## Skills

### Required
- General Pharmaceutical Council registration
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
- medicines optimisation
- medication reviews
- clinical decision-making

### Nice to have
- experience working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN)
- experience managing long-term conditions
- experience undertaking structured medication reviews
- knowledge of NICE guidelines and local prescribing formularies

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