Job summary
Were looking for a dynamic and proactive Clinical
Pharmacist to join our expanding team. Youll play a key role in medicines
optimisation, structured clinical medication reviews, and improving prescribing
safety across our network.
Working closely with GPs, nurses, and fellow pharmacists,
youll contribute to enhanced patient outcomes, reduce health inequalities, and
provide specialist medicines advice within a supportive and forward-thinking
environment.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct structured clinical medication reviews (including care homes and complex polypharmacy cases)
- Provide patient-facing support via clinics and telephone consultations
- Perform medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge or care transitions
- Advise on and implement medicines safety initiatives and QI projects
- Contribute to PCN prescribing audits, MHRA alerts, formulary reviews, and national guidance implementation
- Support education and training of the primary care team
- Help improve population health and reduce inequalities through medicines optimisation strategies
About us
Why Work for us
At Westongrove, we are proud to offer a supportive, inclusive, and forward-thinking working environment across our three well-integrated GP sites. Whether you're clinical or non-clinical staff, you'll be joining a friendly, collaborative team committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
Our mission is to be a dedicated, diverse, and compassionate healthcare team, working hard to make a meaningful difference to the health and wellbeing of our community.
We offer:
- A positive, team-focused culture across all three sites
- Flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression
- Access to the NHS pension scheme
- 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- An annual Wellbeing Day for all staff
- Employee discount schemes
- The chance to make a real difference in your community
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by
the post holder may include any or the entire following list. Duties may be
varied from time to time under the direction of the partners and senior
management team and will be dependent on current and evolving practice workload
and staffing levels.
- 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 medicines optimisation or
actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and
competence
- Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with
patients, including Care homes and make appropriate recommendations to Senior
Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and
commensurate with individual level of skill and competence. Work with care home
staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions,
queries and concerns about their medicines as appropriate and commensurate with
individual level of skill and competence
- Provide a telephone help line for patients with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate and
commensurate with individual level of skill and competence
- Answer 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
- Review the use of medicines most commonly associated
with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission's through audit and
individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of
these medicines to high risk patient groups
- Reconcile medicines following transfer of care including
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 (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or
those in care homes)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to
highlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP Practice
Population level
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas
directed by the GPs and feedback the results and implement changes in
conjunction with the practice team at practice and PCN level,Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA
alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
- Monitor Network prescribing against the local health
economy's 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 practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is
hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance
against NICE technology assessment guidance, Provide practice and PCN level
information to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines
- Provide education and training to primary healthcare
team(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation
- Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCN
is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
- Support public health campaigns. To provide
specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general
public. To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing on
reducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by
the post holder may include any or the entire following list. Duties may be
varied from time to time under the direction of the partners and senior
management team and will be dependent on current and evolving practice workload
and staffing levels.
- 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 medicines optimisation or
actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and
competence
- Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with
patients, including Care homes and make appropriate recommendations to Senior
Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and
commensurate with individual level of skill and competence. Work with care home
staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions,
queries and concerns about their medicines as appropriate and commensurate with
individual level of skill and competence
- Provide a telephone help line for patients with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate and
commensurate with individual level of skill and competence
- Answer 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
- Review the use of medicines most commonly associated
with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission's through audit and
individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of
these medicines to high risk patient groups
- Reconcile medicines following transfer of care including
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 (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or
those in care homes)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to
highlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP Practice
Population level
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas
directed by the GPs and feedback the results and implement changes in
conjunction with the practice team at practice and PCN level,Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA
alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
- Monitor Network prescribing against the local health
economy's 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 practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is
hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance
against NICE technology assessment guidance, Provide practice and PCN level
information to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines
- Provide education and training to primary healthcare
team(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation
- Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCN
is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
- Support public health campaigns. To provide
specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general
public. To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing on
reducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in pharmacy
- Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
- Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience or a special interest in diabetes management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in pharmacy
- Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
- Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience or a special interest in diabetes management
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).