About the Role

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and flexible clinical pharmacist, with excellent interpersonal skills, to join our fantastic team at Framlingham Medical Practicein Framlingham, Suffolk.

The vacancy is for between 25-30 hours a week; however, this may be negotiable for the right candidate. Flexibility is crucial to accommodate training, holidays and occasional sickness.

You should be able to work calmly and professionally as part of a team, with the ability to multi-task. A strong command of written and spoken English with an excellent telephone manner is a must. Good time management skills and the ability to follow protocols and or instruction and attention to detail is essential.

We offer a competitive salary along with other employee benefits, and the opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.

Main duties of the role include;

Reduce the medicines related workload on doctors
Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
Carry out clinical medication review
Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
Care home/frailty medication review
Focusing on QOF Domains, improving disease registers
Prescribing safety audits, clinical audit, local enhanced services support
Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff)
Actioning of MHRA safety alerts
Develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare
Plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions for members of the practice team, patients, and carers
Maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes
As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments,
Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the post holders line manager

About the Candidate

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

Essential:

GPhC registered Pharmacist
Hold or be working towards the GPhC independent prescribing qualification
An appreciation of the nature of GP's and general practice.
An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing.
Experience and awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.

Desirable:

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Minor ailments certification
Medicines management qualification

Minimum of 2 years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care
Un-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
Understanding of the mentorship process
Broad knowledge of general practice

About Us

Framlingham Medical Practice is joining Suffolk Primary Care from the beginning of April 2026. This will provide access to a wider range of roles, shared expertise and organisational support, while allowing us to retain our identity as a local practice. We care for 9,500 patients across our main site in Framlingham and our branch surgery at Earl Soham. We are a SystmOne Practice and use Anima to support patient access and general enquiries.

We have:

2 GP partners
4 salaried GP's
Clinical pharmacist
1 advanced nurse practitioner
1 paediatric advanced nurse practitioner
1 paramedic
3 practice nurses
2 healthcare assistant
Phlebotomist
Dispensary team

The clinical team is supported by our experienced Administration and Reception teams.

The practice is an established GP training practice.

The practice also offers placements to final year medical students from the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia.

In addition to our regular team we have an extended team consisting of

Physiotherapist
CMAS (Community Memory Assessment Service)
Midwife
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) scanners
Chiropodist

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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