Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Wootton Vale Healthy Living Centre are looking for a enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive team on a full-time basis, flexible working considered.

You will play a key role in medicines optimisation, long term condition management, and improving prescribing quality, while working closely with GPs, nurses, trainees, and the wider multidisciplinary team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist who is passionate about patient care, enjoys clinical variety, and is keen to contribute to service development, teaching, and innovation within primary care.

You will be a proactive, patient-focused clinical professional who enjoys working as part of a team and is motivated by improving systems, services, and outcomes. You will be comfortable with change, keen to develop others, and enthusiastic about using new approaches to optimise medicines management and patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), particularly for patients with polypharmacy, frailty, or complex long term conditions
• Support medication reconciliation following hospital discharge
• Provide expert medicines advice to clinicians and patients
• Contribute to long-term condition management within your scope of competence
• Support repeat prescribing processes, medication queries, and prescribing safety checks
• Promote evidence based prescribing and contribute to audit and quality improvement work
• Implement local and national prescribing priorities (e.g.ICB initiatives, QOF, IIF)
• Review high risk medicines and support appropriate monitoring
• Deliver patient facing clinics(e.g. hypertension reviews, inhaler technique, medicines counselling), depending on experience
• Work collaboratively within the MDT, including supporting trainees and junior colleagues
• Opportunity to be involved in practice based projects, including research and innovation initiatives

About us

The Vale Medical Practice is a forward thinking, community focused GP practice serving the villages of Marston Vale and surrounding areas. We operate across two well established sites and pride ourselves on delivering high quality, patient centred care through collaboration, innovation, and continual improvement.

We are a training practice, recently research ready, and actively investing in the development of our multidisciplinary team. As part of an exciting phase of organisational change, we are moving away from traditional, siloed ways of working towards a competency based, whole patient model of care. This role is ideal for someone who embraces change, enjoys shaping services, and wants to help redefine how primary care is delivered.

We offer:

• A supportive, innovative, and welcoming GP team
• Opportunities for training, CPD, and career progression
• Competitive salary and NHS Pension Scheme
• Flexible working options, including opportunities within Enhanced Access services
• A positive team culture that genuinely values innovation, learning, and patient-centred care

For further information, please visit our website: www.woottonvale.co.uk