Clinical Pharmacist - Full time

Were looking for a dynamic and proactive ClinicalPharmacist to join our expanding team. Youll play a key role in medicinesoptimisation, structured clinical medication reviews, and improving prescribingsafety across our network.

Working closely with GPs, nurses, and fellow pharmacists,youll contribute to enhanced patient outcomes, reduce health inequalities, andprovide specialist medicines advice within a supportive and forward-thinkingenvironment.

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
• The chance to make a real difference in your community

Job responsibilities

The main duties and responsibilities to be undertaken bythe post holder may include any or the entire following list. Duties may bevaried from time to time under the direction of the partners and seniormanagement team and will be dependent on current and evolving practice workloadand staffing levels.

• See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiplemedical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and anopportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they getthe best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriaterecommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation oractions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill andcompetence
• Undertake structured clinical medication reviews withpatients, including Care homes and make appropriate recommendations to SeniorPharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate andcommensurate with individual level of skill and competence. Work with care homestaff 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 withindividual level of skill and competence
• Provide a telephone help line for patients withquestions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate andcommensurate with individual level of skill and competence
• Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs,other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) andpatients 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 associatedwith unplanned hospital admissions and readmission's through audit andindividual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing ofthese medicines to high risk patient groups
• Reconcile medicines following transfer of care includingdischarge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, includingidentifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients andcommunity pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need postdischarge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supplyto high risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids orthose in care homes)
• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriatehealthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriateperiod of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions,long term condition reviews etc
• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk ofharm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This mightinclude risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development andimplementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice ontreatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data tohighlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP PracticePopulation level
• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areasdirected by the GPs and feedback the results and implement changes inconjunction with the practice team at practice and PCN level,Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRAalerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
• Monitor Network prescribing against the local healtheconomy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should beprescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amberdrugs), Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that ishosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices complianceagainst NICE technology assessment guidance, Provide practice and PCN levelinformation to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines
• Provide education and training to primary healthcareteam(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation
• Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCNis compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
• Support public health campaigns. To providespecialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the generalpublic. To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing onreducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy

Person Specification Qualifications

• Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
• Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience

• Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
• 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.