Pharmacist Independent Prescriber

We are seeking a pharmacist

with previous experience of working in primary care to develop and manage Medicines

Optimisation services within general practice. The

post holder will work as part of a multi- disciplinary team in a patient-facing

role. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management

within practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively

manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide

primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescriptions and

medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescribing system, medicines

reconciliation, and support systems for safer prescribing. They will be

expected to provide expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing

both public and social care needs of patients.

The post holder will provide

clinical leadership on Medicines Optimisation and manage some aspects of the Quality

and Outcomes Framework and Enhanced Services. They will ensure that practices

integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to facilitate effective

communication across different healthcare settings.

The role is pivotal to improving

the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and

passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

About us

Islington GP Federation (IGPF) is a growing organisation representing 31 practices; we have established ourselves as a leader in new ways of working, including running Islingtons extended access primary care services (I: HUB) as well as supporting the Islington Primary Care Networks (PCNs).Our current range of services include the Extended Access Service, I: HUB, Community Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Integrated Community Gynaecology, practice-based pharmacists, and a range of practice support mechanisms.

IGPF works very closely with a range of partners including the regional commissioning group, NHS England, Healthy London Partnership, Public Health, local hospitals such as UCLH, Whittington Health and the London Borough of Islington.

IGPF is the host organisation for the Primary Care Network (PCN) workforce and the Islington Training Hub and has been working for over two years to create training and development programmes that meet the needs of staff working in primary and community care settings.IGPF runs four Islington GP practices. City Road Medical Centre is a GMS practice; two are APMS contracts and one caretaking contract.

Details

Date posted

14 October 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£61,503.69 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0031-26-0042

Job locations

Unit 16-18

The Studios, Hornsey Street

Holloway

London

N7 8EG

United Kingdom

Hanley Primary Care Centre

51 Hanley Road

LONDON

N4 3DU

United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Structured

Medication reviews

• Frail

elderly patient with problematic Polypharmacy, renal and/ or hepatic impairment

• Patients

on high-risk medicines

• STOPP/START

identified patients

• Revolving

door Hospital admission

• LTC:

Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, COPD

• contraception
• Learning

Disability reviews

• Rheumatoid

arthritis reviews

• Musculoskeletal

pain management, e.g. osteoarthritis

• Ongoing

care of defined conditions, e.g. eczema, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome

(IBS)

• Contribute

to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Management of common/minor/self-

limiting ailments

• Managing

caseload for 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

Repeat Prescribing

• Produce and implement robust systems for repeat prescribing
• Support the management of repeat prescribing reauthorization process by reviewing complex patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines overdue a review
• Coordinate with patients and community pharmacies as appropriate

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

• To

reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and

into care homes

• Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post

discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up

tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients

receive the medicines they need post discharge

Risk

Management and Patient Safety

• Responsible

for high risk drug monitoring

• Responsible for design,

development, and implementation of system searches

to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

• Increase

quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA

cycles

• Implement

drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Medicine information to practice

sta and patients

Deal will all

medication queries from

• From

patients, community pharmacy, secondary care

• From

admin staff

• From

clinicians

Act

as a source of medicines information for the practice team and patients (e.g.

around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives for out of

stocks).

Care

Quality Commission

• Provide

leadership to the general practice teams to ensure practices are compliant with

CQC standards where medicines are involved.

• Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure

compliance with medicines

legislation.

Public

health

• To

contribute to public health campaigns, including u vaccinations, and adult

immunisation programmes

Medicines

quality improvement

• Identify medicine-related areas of care (including using software tools)

to improve patient

safety and use of

medicines

• Conduct

medicine-related audits, significant event audit and complaint review.

• Contribute

to medicine-related complaint response letters as appropriate

• Lead

on use of TARGET toolkit for antimicrobial stewardship.

• Lead

on stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability, autism, or

both (STOMP) and people with dementia.

Medicines

safety

• Identify

national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using

medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence

form clinical trials.

• Manage

the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Job responsibilities

Structured

Medication reviews

• Frail

elderly patient with problematic Polypharmacy, renal and/ or hepatic impairment

• Patients

on high-risk medicines

• STOPP/START

identified patients

• Revolving

door Hospital admission

• LTC:

Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, COPD

• contraception
• Learning

Disability reviews

• Rheumatoid

arthritis reviews

• Musculoskeletal

pain management, e.g. osteoarthritis

• Ongoing

care of defined conditions, e.g. eczema, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome

(IBS)

• Contribute

to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Management of common/minor/self-

limiting ailments

• Managing

caseload for 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

Repeat Prescribing

• Produce and implement robust systems for repeat prescribing
• Support the management of repeat prescribing reauthorization process by reviewing complex patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines overdue a review
• Coordinate with patients and community pharmacies as appropriate

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

• To

reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and

into care homes

• Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post

discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up

tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients

receive the medicines they need post discharge

Risk

Management and Patient Safety

• Responsible

for high risk drug monitoring

• Responsible for design,

development, and implementation of system searches

to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

• Increase

quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA

cycles

• Implement

drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Medicine information to practice

sta and patients

Deal will all

medication queries from

• From

patients, community pharmacy, secondary care

• From

admin staff

• From

clinicians

Act

as a source of medicines information for the practice team and patients (e.g.

around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives for out of

stocks).

Care

Quality Commission

• Provide

leadership to the general practice teams to ensure practices are compliant with

CQC standards where medicines are involved.

• Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure

compliance with medicines

legislation.

Public

health

• To

contribute to public health campaigns, including u vaccinations, and adult

immunisation programmes

Medicines

quality improvement

• Identify medicine-related areas of care (including using software tools)

to improve patient

safety and use of

medicines

• Conduct

medicine-related audits, significant event audit and complaint review.

• Contribute

to medicine-related complaint response letters as appropriate

• Lead

on use of TARGET toolkit for antimicrobial stewardship.

• Lead

on stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability, autism, or

both (STOMP) and people with dementia.

Medicines

safety

• Identify

national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using

medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence

form clinical trials.

• Manage

the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Basic understanding of General Practice, primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Demonstrate ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

Qualifications

Essential

• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Basic understanding of General Practice, primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Demonstrate ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

Qualifications

Essential

• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.

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 .

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 .

Employer details

Employer name

Islington GP Federation

Address

Unit 16-18

The Studios, Hornsey Street

Holloway

London

N7 8EG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.islingtongpfederation.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Islington GP Federation

Address

Unit 16-18

The Studios, Hornsey Street

Holloway

London

N7 8EG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.islingtongpfederation.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job responsibilities

Structured

Medication reviews

• Frail

elderly patient with problematic Polypharmacy, renal and/ or hepatic impairment

• Patients

on high-risk medicines

• STOPP/START

identified patients

• Revolving

door Hospital admission

• LTC:

Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, COPD

• contraception
• Learning

Disability reviews

• Rheumatoid

arthritis reviews

• Musculoskeletal

pain management, e.g. osteoarthritis

• Ongoing

care of defined conditions, e.g. eczema, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome

(IBS)

• Contribute

to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Management of common/minor/self-

limiting ailments

• Managing

caseload for 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

Repeat Prescribing

• Produce and implement robust systems for repeat prescribing
• Support the management of repeat prescribing reauthorization process by reviewing complex patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines overdue a review
• Coordinate with patients and community pharmacies as appropriate

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

• To

reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and

into care homes

• Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post

discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up

tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients

receive the medicines they need post discharge

Risk

Management and Patient Safety

• Responsible

for high risk drug monitoring

• Responsible for design,

development, and implementation of system searches

to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

• Increase

quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA

cycles

• Implement

drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Medicine information to practice

sta and patients

Deal will all

medication queries from

• From

patients, community pharmacy, secondary care

• From

admin staff

• From

clinicians

Act

as a source of medicines information for the practice team and patients (e.g.

around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives for out of

stocks).

Care

Quality Commission

• Provide

leadership to the general practice teams to ensure practices are compliant with

CQC standards where medicines are involved.

• Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure

compliance with medicines

legislation.

Public

health

• To

contribute to public health campaigns, including u vaccinations, and adult

immunisation programmes

Medicines

quality improvement

• Identify medicine-related areas of care (including using software tools)

to improve patient

safety and use of

medicines

• Conduct

medicine-related audits, significant event audit and complaint review.

• Contribute

to medicine-related complaint response letters as appropriate

• Lead

on use of TARGET toolkit for antimicrobial stewardship.

• Lead

on stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability, autism, or

both (STOMP) and people with dementia.

Medicines

safety

• Identify

national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using

medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence

form clinical trials.

• Manage

the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Basic understanding of General Practice, primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Demonstrate ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

Qualifications

Essential

• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.