General Practice Clinical Pharmacist

Honeypot Medical Centre
General Practice Clinical Pharmacist
The closing date is 27 November 2026

Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist, preferably with an independent prescribing qualification, to join our friendly practice, including our excellent team of 5 clinical pharmacists and extensive practice multidisciplinary team.

We are an innovative and forward-looking practice of almost 19000 patients, working in modern and well-equipped premises. We believe in retaining the traditional values of general practice, including a strong patient-centred ethos, while embracing innovation and technology to provide a general practice fit for the future. We embrace skill-mix with an extensive team, including GPs, pharmacists, advanced nurse practitioners, practice nurses, first contact physiotherapists, mental health practitioner, physician associate, paramedic, social prescribing link workers and health care assistants. We are a training practice (GP registrars, and medical students) and provide weekly teaching and real time supervision and mentoring to our pharmacists and nurses and other healthcare professionals. We support the professional development of our team and have extensively developed and expanded the role of our clinical pharmacists through our training and supervision initiatives.

We are an integral member of our Primary Care Network and our Senior Partner is the Clinical Director.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside other clinicians in a patient-facing role. They will be able to work independently, though we also provide clinical supervision and debriefs and regular weekly clinical teaching.

The post holder will provide primary support to practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will manage the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines for patients and the practice. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management, share with other pharmacists in managing the practices repeat prescribing process and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients including those with complex polypharmacy. They will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and be responsible for supporting the practice in implementing effective medicine management, including doing searches and audits, identifying areas for improvement, initiating and managing change. They will maintain a good knowledge of QOF, enhanced services and other parts of the GP Contract, CQC clinical regulatory standards, IIF and other areas. The postholder will be required to both work as part of the practice multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role, but also provide individual clinical decision making around their own caseload of patients.

About us
We are an established GP practice in Stanmore, for over 80 years. The practice underwent a rebuild into bespoke modern current premises in 2019, with fully-fitted consulting rooms, air-conditioning throughout and a lift between the ground and first floor. We serve a growing list size of over 18,300 patients, comprising a diverse multi-ethnic population with about 66% of Asian origin.

The practice is also the lead practice for Harrow East Primary Care Network and one of our Senior Partners is Clinical Director.

The practice is an established training practice, training GP registrars and medical students. We also run extensive in house teaching, mentoring and supervision for our extended clinical workforce, including weekly pharmacist teaching sessions. We also avail of the extensive learning opportunities from our local training hub.

We use EMIS Web as our clinical system, and Docman for document management of hospital correspondence and AccuRx for text messaging. We use ARDENS templates and searches and PATCHs as our online consultation platform.

Our philosophy
Our aim is to retain the values of traditional general practice, within a modern context. We believe in availing the opportunities of the use of technology and digital tools, to maximise productivity and efficiencies and also empower patients, while at the same time providing holistic, personalised continuity of care.

Job responsibilities

• Repeat prescribing: lead the repeat prescribing system and medication review policy; manage the reauthorisation process; ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients: answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients.
• Medicine reviews: conduct telephone, face-to-face, virtual and domiciliary (where appropriate) clinical medication reviews, including those with complex polypharmacy; reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
• Medicine management including risk stratification: ensure drug monitoring systems are robust; develop ways to improve monitoring of high-risk medication such as anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs; monitor prescribing against local guidelines and formulary recommendations; identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.
• Telephone and patient facing medicines support: provide telephone support and patient facing and/or virtual appointments for patients with questions about their medicines.
• Management of common, minor and self-limiting ailments within scope of practice and limits of competence; signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Unplanned hospital admissions: review medicines most commonly associated with unplanned admissions and readmissions; put in place changes to reduce prescribing to high-risk groups.
• Medicines on discharge from hospital: reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and care homes; set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups.
• Signposting: ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional within an appropriate period of time.
• Medicines safety and quality improvement: implement changes resulting from MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and national guidance; undertake clinical audits of prescribing and implement changes with the practice team.
• Implementation of local and national guidelines: monitor prescribing against ICB formulary and medicines optimisation recommendations and make recommendations to GPs, including shared care arrangements.
• Patient facing clinical medication review: undertake clinical medication reviews with patients, including those in care homes and housebound patients or those requiring domiciliary visits; consult patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required; work with care home staff to improve medicines safety; attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Patient facing long term condition management, dependent on training and competence, including diabetes care, asthma, COPD, heart failure reviews, learning disability reviews and dementia reviews.
• Education and training: provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Care Quality Commission: work with the general practice team to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Public health: support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes available to the general public.

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential: Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm); registered member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) with no restrictions to practice.
Desirable: Independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential: Postgraduate experience in community or hospital pharmacy or general practice; experience in long term condition management; experience in medicines management systems.
Desirable: Experience of working in a GP practice or PCN; experience in consulting independently.

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 the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Honeypot Medical Centre
Address: 404 Honeypot Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 1JP, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply via the company portal

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: GP Partner, Dr Meena Thakur.

Job locations
404 Honeypot Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 1JP, United Kingdom
Honeypot Medical Centre, Charlton Annexe, 223 Charlton Road, Harrow, HA3 9HT, United Kingdom