Job summary
Were looking for a motivated clinical pharmacist to play a key role in improving how our patients use and benefit from their medicines.Youll be joining a supportive, forward-thinking practice that values innovation, professional growth and collaborative working. Here, your expertise is recognised, your ideas are welcomed, and youll have the freedom to shape how medicines optimisation works across our team. If youre passionate about patient safety, evidence-based care and using your clinical skills to improve lives, wed love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this varied and rewarding role, youll lead clinical medication reviews, support safer prescribing, and work closely with our GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians and community colleagues to ensure every patient receives the right treatment at the right time. From managing complex polypharmacy and post-discharge reconciliations to running specialist clinics and driving quality improvements, youll make a real difference to patient outcomes every day
About us
Darwin Medical Practice in Burntwood is a modern, forward-thinking GP practice offering an inspiring place to develop your career. With spacious, purpose-built facilities and well-equipped consulting and treatment rooms, our environment is designed to help clinicians deliver exceptional care. We are a large, supportive and innovative team, deeply rooted in our community and committed to providing compassionate, patient-centred services. With over 24,000 patients and strong PCN partnerships, we offer a dynamic setting where you can make a meaningful impact every day. You will benefit from collaborative working, opportunities to shape how we deliver care, and a genuine commitment to your professional growth. Joining Darwin means being part of a positive, progressive practice that values your expertise and empowers you to thrive.
Details
Date posted
17 November 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
A0239-25-0021
Job locations
Greenwood Health Centre
Lichfield Road
Burntwood
Staffordshire
WS7 0AQ
Job description
Job responsibilities
Darwin Medical Practice
Post Title
Grade
Date
General Practice Based Pharmacist
TBC
Nov 2025
Reporting Relationships
Responsible to: Clinical Services Manager
Responsible For: N/A
About Darwin Medical Practice
Darwin Medical Practiceprovides services from St Chads Health Centre, Dimbles Lane in Lichfield, Greenwood Health Centre, Burntwood and 29-31 High Street, Chasetown, Burntwood.
Our aim is to deliver a high quality service which will benefit our patients. With a large team working together we will maintain and improve the quality of care with the sharing of expertise and skills, this will enable patients to have more choice. We have a coordinated approach, developing our teams to support patients with long term and complex conditions.
We value our relationship with our patients and have an active Patient Participation Group to help us deliver the best service possible.
Let us help patients live a full and active life.
Teams
The following teams make up Darwin Medical Practice
Business support
Clinical staff including GPs and Partners
Secretaries
Management
Care Navigators
Admin
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
Using appropriate infection control procedures and maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
Participate in audit where appropriate.
Job Purpose
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audits and PDSA cycles
Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics
Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
Provide medicines information and training to practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
Review daily pathology results for patients on known medicines
Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives such as around out of stocks)
Support and train, as appropriate, the practice pharmacy technician.
Principal Accountabilities
1. Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
Frail elderly
Polypharmacy
Renal impairment
Hepatic impairment
Substance misuse
Patients on high risk medications
STOPP/START identified patient
Revolving door hospital admissions
2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice
3. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn, or indications change
4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adhere such as MUR and NMS
5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
6. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability drugs
7. Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines
The Practice is open from 8.00am until 6.30pm, with regular extended hours surgeries. It is expected that all staff will work on a rota basis, according to the needs of the service.
The contents of this job description and person specification will be reviewed on an annual basis in line with the Practice training and development review policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Darwin Medical Practice
Post Title
Grade
Date
General Practice Based Pharmacist
TBC
Nov 2025
Reporting Relationships
Responsible to: Clinical Services Manager
Responsible For: N/A
About Darwin Medical Practice
Darwin Medical Practiceprovides services from St Chads Health Centre, Dimbles Lane in Lichfield, Greenwood Health Centre, Burntwood and 29-31 High Street, Chasetown, Burntwood.
Our aim is to deliver a high quality service which will benefit our patients. With a large team working together we will maintain and improve the quality of care with the sharing of expertise and skills, this will enable patients to have more choice. We have a coordinated approach, developing our teams to support patients with long term and complex conditions.
We value our relationship with our patients and have an active Patient Participation Group to help us deliver the best service possible.
Let us help patients live a full and active life.
Teams
The following teams make up Darwin Medical Practice
Business support
Clinical staff including GPs and Partners
Secretaries
Management
Care Navigators
Admin
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
Using appropriate infection control procedures and maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
Participate in audit where appropriate.
Job Purpose
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices
Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audits and PDSA cycles
Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety
Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics
Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
Provide medicines information and training to practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
Review daily pathology results for patients on known medicines
Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives such as around out of stocks)
Support and train, as appropriate, the practice pharmacy technician.
Principal Accountabilities
1. Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
Frail elderly
Polypharmacy
Renal impairment
Hepatic impairment
Substance misuse
Patients on high risk medications
STOPP/START identified patient
Revolving door hospital admissions
2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice
3. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn, or indications change
4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adhere such as MUR and NMS
5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change
6. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability drugs
7. Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines
The Practice is open from 8.00am until 6.30pm, with regular extended hours surgeries. It is expected that all staff will work on a rota basis, according to the needs of the service.
The contents of this job description and person specification will be reviewed on an annual basis in line with the Practice training and development review policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in pharmacy
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Minimum 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy
Desirable
- Member of RPS Faculty membership
- Prescribing qualification
- Postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Skills
Essential
- General pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patient in core areas, including disease states/ long-term conditions identified by local Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the norm and able to refer to seniors or GPs when required
- Involve patients in decisions about medications and support adherence according to NICE guidance
- Ability to work as a team member
- Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleagues when necessary
Desirable
- Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development
- Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes
- Ability to evaluate and review literature
- Ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level
- Ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy
- Developed an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in pharmacy
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Minimum 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy
Desirable
- Member of RPS Faculty membership
- Prescribing qualification
- Postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Skills
Essential
- General pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patient in core areas, including disease states/ long-term conditions identified by local Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the norm and able to refer to seniors or GPs when required
- Involve patients in decisions about medications and support adherence according to NICE guidance
- Ability to work as a team member
- Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleagues when necessary
Desirable
- Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development
- Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes
- Ability to evaluate and review literature
- Ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level
- Ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy
- Developed an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
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).
Additional information
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
Darwin Medical Practice
Address
Greenwood Health Centre
Lichfield Road
Burntwood
Staffordshire
WS7 0AQ
Employer's website
https://www.darwinmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Darwin Medical Practice
Address
Greenwood Health Centre
Lichfield Road
Burntwood
Staffordshire
WS7 0AQ
Employer's website
https://www.darwinmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Details
Date posted
17 November 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
A0239-25-0021
Job locations
Greenwood Health Centre
Lichfield Road
Burntwood
Staffordshire
WS7 0AQ
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