Clinical Pharmacist

Integrated Care System; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A medical care network in the UK seeks a motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join their remote team. The role involves delivering high-quality medicines optimisation, supporting long-term condition management, and ensuring safe prescribing practices. Candidates should hold an MPharm degree, have completed their foundation training, and possess GPhC registration. This position emphasizes collaboration with GPs and community pharmacies to enhance patient care.

Qualifications

• Must be UK based; laptops provided will only work in UK.
• Must have completed foundation training and be registered with GPhC.
• Experience in medication optimisation and review is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct medication reviews and discuss related queries with patients.
• Support GPs in managing care home residents.
• Monitor and inform about ongoing prescribing issues.

Skills

Medication Review and Optimisation

Pharmacy advice and consultation

Prescribing systems knowledge

Education

MPharm Degree (GPhC-accredited)

Completion of Foundation Training Year

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Job description

CAM Medical Primary Care Network is seeking a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our remote team. In this dynamic role, you'll play a key part in delivering high-quality medicines optimisation, supporting long-term condition management, and ensuring safe, effective prescribing across our practices. Working closely with GPs, care homes, and community pharmacy teams, you'll help drive forward patient-centred care and clinical excellence within our network.

Main duties of the job

Job Summary

The Clinical Pharmacist will work remotely across the CAM Medical Primary Care Network area as part of the pharmacy team. Support provided to practices will be determined according to their existing and developing systems and will include some or all of the responsibilities noted below:

• Medication Review and Optimisation
• Care Home Medication Reviews
• Long Term Condition Clinics
• Medicines Reconciliation and processing discharge letters
• Prescribing Systems and Policies
• Liaison with community and hospital pharmacies
• Running reports and audits
• Any other duties as reasonably required.

About us

CAM Medical PCN is a collaborative group of GP practices working together to improve healthcare outcomes for our local communities. We focus on delivering integrated, patient-centred care by enhancing access to clinical services, supporting preventative health, and promoting innovation across primary care. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working together to provide high-quality care tailored to local needs. As a forward-thinking and supportive network, we value continuous improvement, professional development, and compassionate care.

Job responsibilities

• Medication Review and Optimisation
• Respond to pharmacy queries, including clarifying doses or products and providing appropriate alternatives when availability issues occur.
• Discuss medication issues with patients by telephone, such as adverse effects, interactions, overdose, inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, and queries from practice dispensaries and care homes.
• Discuss specific patient and prescribing issues such as complicated regimes, polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, and medication reduction regimes with other clinicians as necessary.

Consultations with patients may include:

• Discuss medication issues as needed and appropriate.
• Carry out medication reviews and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice, suggesting GP medication reviews where appropriate.

Further responsibilities include:

• Supporting GPs with management of care home residents and undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.
• Implementing prescribing changes if an independent prescriber and ordering relevant monitoring tests.
• Working with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Undertaking chronic disease reviews and medicine optimisation according to practice guidelines.
• Reviewing secondary care requests for new medication and managing anticoagulant start/stop requests from secondary care.
• Monitoring and informing colleagues about ongoing prescribing issues, advising on cost-effective prescribing, and developing prescribing policies and audit systems.
• Supporting integration with community and hospital pharmacies, managing patients at risk of medicine-related problems on discharge, and conducting clinical audits of prescribing.
• Undertaking any other duties as reasonably required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MPharm Degree (GPhC-accredited)
• Completion of Foundation Training Year (pre-registration year)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• UK based. Laptops provided will only work in UK.

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