Job Description

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, newly qualified or qualified proactive Clinical Pharmacist to join Witterings Medical Centre. You will be joining an established, friendly team of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to deliver medicines optimisation services, undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, this is both face to face and on the telephone. In addition, you will support the practice in providing expert advice with medication queries and monitoring.
Enquiries and informal visits very welcome.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.
- Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.
- Use structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
- Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation clinics.
About us
Witterings Medical Centre have over 10,000 patients with 4 partners, 3 salaried GPs, an experienced nursing team and an excellent administrative team. We are one of 8 practices in the Chichester Alliance of Medical Practices Primary Care Network.
Details
Date posted
16 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A0251-25-0003
Job locations
Cakeham Road
East Wittering
Chichester
West Sussex
PO20 8BH
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.
- Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.
- Use structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
- Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation clinics.
- Contribute to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced services.
- Specifically, contribute to the Quality Improvement Schemes (QIS) for practices (e.g. to reduce prescribing spend and unplanned admissions)
- Work with general practice teams to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
- Take a lead role in some aspects of supporting further integration of General Practice with other healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system
- Take responsibility for the care management of patients with some of the chronic diseases.
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
- Be prescribers, or committed to completing training to become prescribers.
The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to change as deemed necessary Job description
Job responsibilities
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.
- Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.
- Use structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
- Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation clinics.
- Contribute to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced services.
- Specifically, contribute to the Quality Improvement Schemes (QIS) for practices (e.g. to reduce prescribing spend and unplanned admissions)
- Work with general practice teams to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
- Take a lead role in some aspects of supporting further integration of General Practice with other healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system
- Take responsibility for the care management of patients with some of the chronic diseases.
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
- Be prescribers, or committed to completing training to become prescribers.
The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to change as deemed necessary
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the GPC.

• Working towards independent prescribing qualification.
• Experience of common acute and long-term conditions.
• Strong problem solver.
• Works effectively independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and codes of conduct.
• Committed to continuous professional development.
• Ability to apply research evidence base into the workplace.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• IT literate.

• More than 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
• Independent prescriber.
• Experience of medication reviews relevant in General Practice.
• Track record of improving work processes.
• Previous experience of working in a GP surgery.
• Up to date knowledge of CQC regulations in General Practice.
• Good understanding and history of quality improvement work through audit.
• User of TPP SystmOne.

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the GPC.

• Working towards independent prescribing qualification.
• Experience of common acute and long-term conditions.
• Strong problem solver.
• Works effectively independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and codes of conduct.
• Committed to continuous professional development.
• Ability to apply research evidence base into the workplace.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• IT literate.

• More than 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
• Independent prescriber.
• Experience of medication reviews relevant in General Practice.
• Track record of improving work processes.
• Previous experience of working in a GP surgery.
• Up to date knowledge of CQC regulations in General Practice.
• Good understanding and history of quality improvement work through audit.
• User of TPP SystmOne.

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