Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to
develop your career as a Clinical Practice Pharmacist within General Practice.
This is permanent
ARRS funded role, working solely for Air Balloon Surgery and joining our existing team of
experienced prescribing Clinical Practice Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician. We see this post as a senior clinical role within the wider clinical team.
The role of the Clinical Practice Pharmacist is well embedded in the
wider practice clinical team, and is pivotal to improving the quality of care and
ensuring patient safety. You will be working to improve value and
outcomes from medicines and consult with and treat patients directly, pro-actively
managing patients with chronic disease and complex poly-pharmacy.
The
successful candidate is likely to have two years post graduate experience and
ideally primary care prescribing experience, although we would support an
exceptional candidate to gain their prescribing qualifications. You will have completed or will be willing to complete the Primary Care
Pharmacy Education Pathway.
Regular GP partner supervision with opportunities to grow and develop professionally.
Competitive salary, negotiable depending on experience and skill set. 5.6
weeks pro rata annual leave per year with one week study leave.
This is a 33.5 hrs post which could
be worked over five days, or consideration could be given to an
alternative working pattern
over four days.
Main duties of the job
Patient facing roles seeing patients and managing medication related
problems and queries. Medication reviews at point of care transfer, especially
for older frail, care homes and polypharmacy
Staff facing roles - providing support to general practice staff in
relation to repeat prescriptions and medication queries
Quality, governance and improvement - working with the prescribing and
wider practice team on safety and medicines optimisation. Leading on
initiatives, medicines audit work and local projects and schemes of work
About us
We are a supportive, friendly and caring practice, and value the importance of being inspired and enthused by our work. We are open to new ideas and ways of working. Your opinions and well-being matter.
We ensure a healthy work-life balance is maintained through the decisions we make, and we continually review our working structure to enable this.
About us:
- 4 Partners and 6 Associate GPs
- 2 Prescribing Clinical practice pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician
- Extensively skilled nursing team, including physiotherapist and nurse prescribers
- Extremely supportive and highly-trained Care Navigator team.
- CPD well supported in-house and with external training
- Modern, spacious, purpose built premises
- GP Training and under graduate teaching practice
- Close to the Independent cafes of Church Rd, including the award-winning Bristol Loaf.
- We are a registered Park-Run Practice.
- Achieved overall good CQC rating
For more information about us and the role, please see the attached Practice Profile and job description.
We plan to hold Initial interviews on Thursday 26th February 2026, details to be agreed with short-listed candidates.
We reserve the right to close this post early should we have received sufficient suitable applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The post holder is an experienced
clinical pharmacist ideally with previous experience of working in Primary
Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider
clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the
practice.
Longterm condition clinics - See patients in
multimorbidity
clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement
improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible
for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines
have a large component.
Differential
/ undeferential diagnosis - Manage own case load for patients and diagnosis of
people with long term and or acute, common conditions or ailments.
Perform
medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people,
people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
Managing
patients as referred as part of the practices total triage and Care Navigation
systems and processes.
Telephone
and patient facing medicines support.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients.
Contractual
targets - contribute as appropriate, to various medicines related elements in
national and local contracts such as QOF, PCN DES and ICB schemes of work.
Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital.
Medication
reviews including Care Home and Domiciliary reviews.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients.
Unplanned
hospital admissions - identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of
an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case
managers, multidisciplinary health and social care review teams, hospital
colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for
readmission and patient harm.
Risk
stratification contribute to design, development and implementation of
computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from
medicines. Working with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks
through medicines optimisation.
Implementation
of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.
Medicines
quality improvement.
Service
development.
Repeat
prescribing - Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by
reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines
reaching review dates.
Care
Quality Commission, governance and regulation working with the wider clinical
and management teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards
where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and
ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
Medicines
safety contribute to identification of national and local policy and guidance
that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA
alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials.
Training
and supervision contribute to the provision of education and training to the
primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide
training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare students
where appropriate. Engage with activities required for own clinical supervision.
Collaborative
working - Develop close working relationships with the practice team and wider
organisations, understanding their role and contribution to patient services
and experience.
The
post holder will contribute to and participate in local ICB projects and
schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.
See attached Job Description for full
details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The post holder is an experienced
clinical pharmacist ideally with previous experience of working in Primary
Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider
clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the
practice.
Longterm condition clinics - See patients in
multimorbidity
clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement
improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible
for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines
have a large component.
Differential
/ undeferential diagnosis - Manage own case load for patients and diagnosis of
people with long term and or acute, common conditions or ailments.
Perform
medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people,
people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
Managing
patients as referred as part of the practices total triage and Care Navigation
systems and processes.
Telephone
and patient facing medicines support.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients.
Contractual
targets - contribute as appropriate, to various medicines related elements in
national and local contracts such as QOF, PCN DES and ICB schemes of work.
Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital.
Medication
reviews including Care Home and Domiciliary reviews.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients.
Unplanned
hospital admissions - identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of
an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case
managers, multidisciplinary health and social care review teams, hospital
colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for
readmission and patient harm.
Risk
stratification contribute to design, development and implementation of
computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from
medicines. Working with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks
through medicines optimisation.
Implementation
of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.
Medicines
quality improvement.
Service
development.
Repeat
prescribing - Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by
reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines
reaching review dates.
Care
Quality Commission, governance and regulation working with the wider clinical
and management teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards
where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and
ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
Medicines
safety contribute to identification of national and local policy and guidance
that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA
alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials.
Training
and supervision contribute to the provision of education and training to the
primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide
training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare students
where appropriate. Engage with activities required for own clinical supervision.
Collaborative
working - Develop close working relationships with the practice team and wider
organisations, understanding their role and contribution to patient services
and experience.
The
post holder will contribute to and participate in local ICB projects and
schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.
See attached Job Description for full
details.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and 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;
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients);
- Is able to 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 is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate;
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
- Produce timely and informative reports;
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers;
- Work effectively independently and as a team member;
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision;
Desirable
- Familiar with Emis Web clinical software
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care;
- Independent Prescribing experience gained within primary care;
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Membership of the RPS;
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society;
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience;
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification;
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and 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;
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients);
- Is able to 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 is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate;
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
- Produce timely and informative reports;
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers;
- Work effectively independently and as a team member;
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision;
Desirable
- Familiar with Emis Web clinical software
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care;
- Independent Prescribing experience gained within primary care;
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Membership of the RPS;
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society;
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience;
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification;
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).
