Clinical Pharmacist

Posted 22 hours 24 minutes ago by NHS

£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Leicestershire, Leicester, United Kingdom, LE1 1
Job Description

Working in a small practice, you will be a fantastic team player and independent prescriber, supporting the whole practice with:

  • structured medication reviews
  • initiations and medicines reconciliations
  • monitoring of high-risk drugs
  • responding and advising on patient safety alerts
  • carry out audits and improve prescribing safety within the practice
Main duties of the job
  1. Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs)
    • Review patients with long term conditions or polypharmacy.
    • Optimise treatment according to NICE/local guidelines.
    • Deprescribe unnecessary or unsafe medicines.
    • Address adherence issues and side effects.
  2. Prescribing & Long Term Condition Management
    • Initiate, adjust, or stop medicines for conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, and heart failure.
  3. Medicines Safety & Governance
    • Monitor high risk medicines (e.g. anticoagulants, methotrexate, lithium).
    • Ensure appropriate blood test monitoring.
    • Act on MHRA/DSU safety alerts.
    • Conduct prescribing audits and quality improvement projects.
  4. Repeat Prescription Management
    • Authorise and process repeat prescriptions.
    • Ensure monitoring requirements are up to date.
    • Manage medication queries from patients and pharmacies.
  5. Acute & Minor Illness Support
    • Provide self care advice and appropriate treatment.
    • Reduce GP workload by handling medicines related consultations.
  6. Medicines Information & Clinical Support
    • Advise GPs and practice nurses on complex medication queries.
    • Support cost effective prescribing.
    • Assist with formulary adherence.
  7. Care Home & Vulnerable Patient Support
    • Support safeguarding and frailty management.
    • Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy.
  8. Contribution to Practice Targets
    • Support QOF, IIF, and local enhanced services.
    • Participate in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
About us

We are a small, 4700 patient practice, based in the heart of Leicester City, passionate about excellent clinical care. We have one GP partner, a long term locum GP, a practice nurse, HCA and support from a social prescriber, care coordinator and a fantastic admin team. Situated in a bright, modern, purpose built building with a supportive and enthusiastic ethos, we believe in offering the best service we can to the patients we look after. We are looking for someone willing to go the extra mile for our patients and join our family!

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be a clinical pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.

They will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines and expertise including face to face contact with patients.

The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of hospitals. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety, and support clinical staff in the management of patients.

As part of their employment, the post holder will either hold or will be willing to gain qualifications from an accredited training pathway, including independent prescribing, equipping the clinical pharmacist to be able to practise and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting.

Person Specification Experience
  • 2 years experience working in primary care
Qualifications Essential
  • Independent Prescriber
  • GPhC Registration
Desirable
  • Minor Illness / Minor Injury 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).

Employer details Employer name

Aylestone Health Centre

Address

15 Hall Lane
Leicester
LE2 8SF

Employer's website

(Opens in a new tab)