Prescribing Pharmacist

Posting date:	08 August 2025
Salary:	£35.00 per hour
Additional salary information:	£35.00 an hour
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	22 August 2025
Location:	Woking, GU22 7RR
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	M0050-25-0008

Summary

Job Description JOB TITLE: Remote Pharmacist NICS REPORTS TO: Medical Director North West Surrey Integrated Care Services (NICS): You will be able to work flexible hours from home (6 hours month) to support NICS monthly prescribing audits for the AIC and UTC. Our Vision To support our practices and patient is by being a lead provider of innovative, responsive and high-quality GP-linked primary care services in North West Surrey, delivering equitable access to primary care services and improving the healthcare of our population. Our Mission To support our practices and their patents by providing high quality, responsive and compassionate health care services. We do this by working collaboratively with our practices and other health providers across Surrey. Our Values Our values are at the heart of everything that we do and inspire us. Our responsibilities and personal interaction with patients and with others are guided by our core values of working together for our patients, commitment to quality of care, ensuring everyone counts and improving lives. Job summary: The post holder will be an experienced pharmacist with an independent prescribing qualification who acts within their professional boundaries as part of a multidisciplinary team. They will be able to work collaboratively with all members of the multi-professional team to help resolve medication related issues and work to improve the quality and safety of care offered to the registered patients in the locality of North West Surrey. This is a non-patient facing role. Job responsibilities: This will entail monthly audits of antibiotic prescribing for UTC areas, and monthly audits of antibiotic prescribing and high risk medications (e.g. benzodiazepines) for AIC. You will be checking, the indication prescribed for and if in line with NICE guidance, quantity, duration, necessity of prescription and if appropriate whether this was 1st line choice for treatment. You will be expected to provide feedback on what suitable alternatives may be and feed this back to the team. Alongside this bi-annually audits include anti-emetics, quinolones, and gabapentinoids. You will also review Medicine Safety data provided by the MO team, and highlight any concerns revolving prescribing and feed this into our Quality Matters, which gets disseminated every 2 months. This could be surrounding overprescribing high cost medications, branded drugs and OTC preparations as recent examples. You will help interpret the monthly Surrey Heartlands prescribing data, be able to feedback to clinicians on prescribing, ACP prescribing audits and meetings. The post holder will also be required to help identify MHRA alerts and disseminate these to the wider team, as well as contributing to the Quality matters with any prescribing updates and learnings. You will have the opportunity to support with new PGD design, implementation and meetings. Confidentiality: Everyone working in or for the NHS has the responsibility to use information and data in a secure and confidential way. Staff who have access to information about individuals (whether patients, staff, or others) need to use it effectively, whilst maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality. You must be aware of the data protection legislation in relation to data security (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) and ensure strict adherence to the provisions therein at all times. 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, NICS staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to NICS as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of NICS may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the NICS policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. Health & safety: The post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and management their own and others health, safety and security as defined in NICS Health & Safety policy and NICS Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to): Ensuring job holders across our services adhere to their individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management. Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of health, safety, and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensuring implementation across the business. Using personal security systems within the workplace according to NICS guidelines Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business. Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, initiate, and manage the training of others. Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually) Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. 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 that is welcoming to, of the individual, is non-judgmental, and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights. Personal/Professional development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by NICS as part of this employment, with 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. 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 local policies, standards, and guidance. Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect their own work. Participate in audit where appropriate. Person Specification: Criteria Essential Desirable Qualifications and Training A Registered Clinical Pharmacist to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist training pathways) Mandatory Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation Masters degree in pharmacy (M. Pharm) or equivalent. Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification Post graduate degree level or equivalent Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Skills, Knowledge, and experience Understanding of the principles of evidence-based 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 Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients) Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions. Good IT skills Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs where appropriate. Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines. Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience Personal Qualities and Skills Self-Motivator Excellent communicator Passion for improving health outcomes. Curious nature