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Clinical Prescribing PharmacistSurrey Heath Community Providers Ltd • Frimley, United Kingdom
Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd • Frimley, United Kingdom
8 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Part-time
  • Permanent
Job description
Job summary
As a Clinical Pharmacist in Surrey Heath the role will join the growing clinical pharmacy team and work within one or more nominated general practices as well as working as part of the PCN Care Homes Team to support the responsibilities and deliverables of Surrey Heath Primary Care Network (PCN). Initially, time will be planned on a rotational basis in order to build skill and competence across the portfolio and allocated to nominated practices and PCN Care Homes Team.

Surrey Heath Community Providers offer a 365 day, 52 week service delivery and as part of that we offer a 7 days a week from 0800 hrs 2000hrs service. So you may be required to work evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays as part of your normal working hours, as per the needs of the business. As such the role will be responsible for supporting the practice(s) in implementing effective medicines management within the practice, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating and managing change.

The role will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, spending time working directly in one or more nominated GP practice(s) and also spending time working in and supporting our care homes.

Within care homes, the post holder will be responsible for supporting the Primary Care Network (PCN) to implement the medicines optimisation requirements of the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service for enhancing health in care homes. In addition, the role will support other PCN medicines management responsibilities as required.

Main duties of the job
  • Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
  • Risk stratification
  • Unplanned hospital admissions
  • Repeat Prescribing
  • Telephone and Patient facing clinical support
  • Medication review (including care homes and domiciliary medication reviews)
  • Long term conditions clinics
  • MDT meetings
  • Service development
  • Care Quality Commission compliance
  • Public Health campaigns (Flu vaccinations and immunisations)
  • Cost saving programmes
  • Medicine information to practice staff and patients
  • Information Management
  • Medicines quality service improvement
  • Training (Medicine optimisation for healthcare team)
  • Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulator recommendations
  • Medicine safety
  • Activity recording and reporting
  • Leadership
  • COVID vaccination programme

Please refer to the attached job description for more detail regarding key responcibilities.

About us
We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Our services include Surrey Heath Primary Care Network, PRIMACY workflow management and Upper Gordon Road Surgery.

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Details
Date posted: 03 August 2026
Closing date: 30 August 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £49,334 to £56,454 a year
Depending on experience (Pro rata for part time)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: B0037-26-0100
Job locations: Theta Building, Frimley Road, Frimley, Surrey, GU16 7ER

Job responsibilities
Please see Supporting Documents for the full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • GCSEs including English and Maths (C and above) or equivalent
  • Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
  • Post-graduate clinical diploma level or equivalent training/experience
  • Independent prescriber
  • Have completed, be enrolled in, be undertaking or prepared to undertake an approved primary care pharmacy educational pathway (PCPEP), e.g. the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway or Medicines optimisation in care homes training pathway for pharmacy professionals

Desirable
  • Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Experience
Essential
  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidencebased healthcare
  • An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
  • Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience of motivational interviewing and able to train other staff
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
  • Good IT skills
  • Familiarity with GP systems
  • Able to obtain, analyse and interpret complex technical information, and present reports.
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
  • Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Desirable
  • Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Professional Registration
Essential
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Personal Qualities
Essential
  • Reliable
  • Enthusiastic and Self-motivated
  • Work autonomously
  • Flexible in working arrangements to meet service need
  • Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
  • Able to work at part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Commitment to CPD

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd
Address: Theta Building, Frimley Road, Frimley, Surrey, GU16 7ER
Employer's website: Apply through our website
For questions about the job, contact: Dillon McEvilly, shcp.hrenquiries@nhs.net
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