Job requirements
Essential
3 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care
- Qualifications
GPhC registered pharmacist
- Qualifications
Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Qualifications
Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
Job summary
The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, toplay a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on afull-time basis although part time hours may be considered for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
- Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe
- Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
- Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
- Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
- Manage a caseload of complex patients, as appropriate
- Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc
- Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
- Review medications for newly registered patients
- Encourage cost-effective prescribing.
- Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
- Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
- Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
About us
The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is a friendly two site GP practice with a patient list size of approx 13,800. The practice is made up of 6 x GP Partners, 8 x salaried GP's, 1 x Senior Clinical Pharmacist, 2 x Advanced Nurse practitioners, 1 x Nurse prescriber (supported by a team of RGN's and HCA's). We also have a visiting paramedic, pharmacy technician and first contact physio service provided by BSE PCN. We are an accredited GP training practice and our clinical system is SystmOne.
Benefits: NHS pension scheme.
Details
- Date posted: 12 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
- Reference number: 30065
- Job locations: Lower Baxter Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1ET, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist with Primary Care Careers in Bury St Edmunds, England. It is listed as a Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Oct 2026.
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