About the Role

The New Folly Surgery in Ingatestone is currently looking to welcome an experienced locum clinical pharmacist for a maternity contract from mid April 2026 until April 2027. This will be a fixed term contract for 3 days a week – two days in surgery and one day working from home.

The post holder will be responsible for the following:

Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas
Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information
Monitoring long term conditions
Managing medication reviews and DMARD protocols
Liaising with GP’s to ensure the monitoring of patient medication
Document management
Discharge summaries
Medicine reconciliations as well as other clinical document management letters

Those who are successfully shortlisted will be invited for an informal visit.

Interviews will be held at the beginning of March 2026

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience including primary care and at least one other field in pharmacy (community or hospital)
Demonstrable experience of working within a pharmaceutical environment
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and liaising with all members of the practice clinical and non-clinical staff for the collective benefit of the patients
Specialist experience in the management of long term conditions asthma, COPD and diabetes in particular
Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term health conditions and be able to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
Experience of planning, managing, monitoring, and advising patients on general pharmaceutical areas and assisting patients with medication reviews
Strong communication skills, both verbal and in writing and have a strong understanding of the importance of confidentiality

About Us

We are a medium sized, 7100 patient list sized GMS GP surgery in the heart of Ingatestone and one of 8 practices making up Brentwood Primary Care Network (PCN). We are contracted to and work with NHS Mid & South Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB). We have an overall staff of 20 comprising 3 Partners and a salaried GP, a paramedic, a clinical pharmacist and a physician associate, a nursing team of three and a support team led and managed by our practice manager. We are a teaching and training practice for ARU.

We offer a competitive starting pay and annual leave allowance plus access to the NHS pension scheme and development and training opportunities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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