• Job Description

  Req#: A1840-26-0000?language=en&page=1092&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Wapping Group Practice is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to work within a well-established, friendly and innovative team. As a GP Practice Pharmacist, you will work within a GP practice providing patient-facing appointments, advice, treatment and administrative support. Our Clinical pharmacists work as part of the general practice team and are supported by, and work with, a diverse multi-skilled professional team of clinical and non-clinical friendly staff, providing high quality, person-centred, holistic care to patients registered with The Wapping group Practice.

  This is a permanent Part time position from 8-12 hours a week to work in a well-established team.

  We are looking for a candidate who is enthusiastic, dedicated and can demonstrate the ability to give a friendly, caring and professional service to our 11,000 patients.

  Salary depends on experience - (40k-52k)

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will be a qualified pharmacist holding an independent prescribing qualification (desirable not essential), who acts within their professional boundaries as part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of GPs, ANPs, Physician Associates, Paramedics and First Contact Physios.

  You will receive continuous professional development through our clinicians, as well as focused training to develop your clinical skills.

  Your support network will include a clinical supervisor and an extended admin, management team. Additional training will be provided for any areas of identified development

  You will be getting additional support

  Excellent work / Life balance

  Supportive environment

  Clinical progression

  Training cost support

  Full indemnity cover paid by the practice

  Onsite Parking available

  About us

  We are based at Wapping High Street, which is a 2-minute walk from Wapping London Overground Station. We are a well-respected, established training and teaching practice with a fully comprehensive team of doctors (9), nurses (2), pharmacists (4), HCA (2) and the support team (12). We use EMIS web clinical system. QOF achievement more than 95%. CQC rating - Good.

  The surgery is forward thinking and continue the thrive looking at various options to increase patient care within the community. We are passionate about our patients and care provided, we work closely with the PCN and utilise the additional services provided to help avoid hospital visitation.

  We highly value both our patients and our staff, and can offer good CPD opportunities as experience increases.

  Details

  Date posted

  19 January 2026

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  A1840-26-0000

  Job locations

  22 Wapping Lane

  London

  E1W 2RL

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical/Contractual Support

  • Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services;
  • Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care;
  • Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;
  • Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system;
  • Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation; and
  • Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
  • High risk drug monitoring, and Get involved in audits, set by CCG or towards borough wide aims and targets. Run searches for local and national medication alerts/shortages.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas;
  • Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);
  • Patient facing Long- term condition Clinics

  See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

  • Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement

  Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

  Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

  Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

  Patient facing medicines support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from

  GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

  Suggesting and recommending solutions

  Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

  Do appropriate database searches, in keeping MHRA and NICE alerts/ guidance to support safe patient care.

  Unplanned hospital admissions

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

  Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

  To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community

  Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

  Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients.

  Signposting

  Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat prescribing

  Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

  Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

  Risk stratification

  Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

  This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

  Service development

  Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

  Comply with local medicines management requirements.

  Information management

  Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

  Medicines quality improvement

  Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

  Present audit findings to improve service delivery as appropriate.

  Medicines Management

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  Monitor the wapping group practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

  Assist the wapping group practice in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

  Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Public health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  Collaborative Working Relationships

  Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit and interacts Heads of MOT to benefit from peer support.

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs) Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

  Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

  Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including PCN pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, physician associates, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  Leadership:

  Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

  Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service - Have basic knowledge of Quality Improvement (QI) Methodology.

  Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

  Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

  Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

  Management:

  Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

  Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

  Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

  Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

  Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical/Contractual Support

  • Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services;
  • Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care;
  • Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;
  • Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system;
  • Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation; and
  • Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
  • High risk drug monitoring, and Get involved in audits, set by CCG or towards borough wide aims and targets. Run searches for local and national medication alerts/shortages.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas;
  • Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);
  • Patient facing Long- term condition Clinics

  See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

  • Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement

  Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

  Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

  Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

  Patient facing medicines support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from

  GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

  Suggesting and recommending solutions

  Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

  Do appropriate database searches, in keeping MHRA and NICE alerts/ guidance to support safe patient care.

  Unplanned hospital admissions

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

  Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

  To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community

  Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

  Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients.

  Signposting

  Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat prescribing

  Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

  Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

  Risk stratification

  Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

  This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

  Service development

  Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

  Comply with local medicines management requirements.

  Information management

  Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

  Medicines quality improvement

  Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

  Present audit findings to improve service delivery as appropriate.

  Medicines Management

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  Monitor the wapping group practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

  Assist the wapping group practice in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

  Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Public health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  Collaborative Working Relationships

  Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit and interacts Heads of MOT to benefit from peer support.

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs) Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

  Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

  Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including PCN pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, physician associates, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  Leadership:

  Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

  Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service - Have basic knowledge of Quality Improvement (QI) Methodology.

  Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

  Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

  Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

  Management:

  Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

  Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

  Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

  Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

  Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent

  Desirable

  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience
  • Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
  • Experience in General Practice
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation

  Desirable

  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)

  Other

  Essential

  • Self-Motivation
  • Adaptable
  • In date CRB
  • Safeguardingadult and children level three
  • InformationGovernance toolkit completion
  • Immunisation status
  • Basic life support training

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent

  Desirable

  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience
  • Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
  • Experience in General Practice
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation

  Desirable

  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)

  Other

  Essential

  • Self-Motivation
  • Adaptable
  • In date CRB
  • Safeguardingadult and children level three
  • InformationGovernance toolkit completion
  • Immunisation status
  • Basic life support training

  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

  The Wapping Group Practice

  Address

  22 Wapping Lane

  London

  E1W 2RL

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.wappinggrouppractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  The Wapping Group Practice

  Address

  22 Wapping Lane

  London

  E1W 2RL

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.wappinggrouppractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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