Clinical Pharmacist

PartnersHealth; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Nottingham seeks a passionate Clinical Pharmacist to join their multidisciplinary team. This role focuses on optimizing medication use and supporting patient care within a general practice setting. You will provide expertise in clinical medicines management, engage with patients and healthcare professionals, and be instrumental in enhancing quality and efficiency in healthcare services. The successful candidate will possess an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and relevant prescribing qualifications, with at least 2 years of experience in primary care. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient health outcomes.

Benefits

Employee assistance package

Qualifications

• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge in healthcare.
• Minimum 2 years' experience working as a pharmacist in primary care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews and manage complex polypharmacy.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to improve patient care.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Proactive approach

I.T. competence (SystmOne)

Team collaboration

Education

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy

Independent prescribing qualification

Tools

GP clinical systems

Job description

Village HealthGroup is a thriving busy dispensing practice serving 27,000 patients. Basedover 4 sites we have a large multi-disciplinary team led by our GP Partnerswhich comprises GPs, Nurses & HCAs as well as Clinical Pharmacists, NAs, tNAs & Social Prescribers as part of our wider PCN ARRS team. Our clinical team is supported by our administrative, secretarial & reception teams.

We have anexciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our practice team workingalongside our PCN pharmacy team. You will be a prescriber or in the process ofcompleting this and will work as part of the general practice team within theirclinical competencies to provide expertise in clinical medicines managementacross a range of aspects such as day to day medication related queries, acuteprescription requests, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangementsand follow up, actioning of MHRA alerts and targeted medication reviews whichmay be done over the telephone or face to face. You will be expected to help instreamlining processes and developing protocols to allow for safer prescribingand to meet CQC expectations.

You will act asa specialist resource to answer medicines-related queries, to signpost to otherservices and to liaise with other healthcare professionals as required.Clinical supervision and mentorship will be provided by the GP Partners for thepharmacy team.

Main duties of the job

We are lookingfor candidates who are enthusiastic self-starters and who are adaptable tochange. You will have excellent communication skills and be proactive inapproaching patients, carers, colleagues and other agencies as and when needed.It is expected that you will be able to use your initiative to gatherinformation and to use the resources that are available to you, such as prescribing guidelines. Being a team player is essential. A good level ofcompetence in use of I.T, predominantly SystmOne is required.

The successfulcandidate will work within a supportive practice team and the wider PCNpharmacy team in order to deliver safe and effective use of medicines byapplying their clinical, pharmaceutical and technical skills to a variety oftasks within the medicines optimisation agenda.

This role ispivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, sorequires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within generalpractice.

If you are aforward-thinking individual who is keen to develop in this role, we want tohear from you!

About us

We offer:

An employeeassistance package for all staff

For furtherinformation or an informal discussion about the role please contact Suzy Lyonat [e-mail]

Closing datefor applications: Sunday 11th January 2026

Previous applicants need not apply

Job responsibilities

Salary Grade - Dependant on experience

Reporting to - GP Partner Leadfor Pharmacy

Accountable to - Partners

THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

General Practice is at the heart of the Healthand Social Care system and it is critical to have thriving, sustainable generalpractices that meet local peoples health needs. The Clinical Pharmacist is instrumental insupporting the practice clinically. This is a key role, intended to support thedelivery and development of the pharmacist role in primary care and ensure that we continue to provide highquality, accessible and responsive services to both practices and patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acts within professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in general practice.
• Works as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role.
• Takes responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertakes clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Provides primary support to practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. (helps support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the practice)
• Provides clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manages some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Ensures that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
• The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies sorequires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
• Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Areas of responsibility for all clinical pharmacists

Working with stakeholders

Recognise the relevant key multi-professional stakeholders across the IC to include, and not limited to, the wider health and social care system.

Identify and develop relationships with the practice team,private providers, the local primary care team, neighbouring PCNs and otherkey partners to enable good working relationships and promote and share bestpractice.

Develop networks with local,regional, and national clinical specialist pharmacy interest groups wherepossible.

Clinical Practice

Provide telephone, domiciliary and face to face medication reviews, and where competent long-term condition reviews and common/ minor/ self-limiting condition management. Priority areas being complex polypharmacy, frailty, asthma, COPDand people with learning disabilities.

Provide face to face and telephone medication expertise.

Be a prescriber or belooking to complete relevant training to become a prescriber.

Through holistic structured medication reviews, support patients with their medication to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

Support with medicines reconciliation of hospital discharges and clinic letters.

Support the provision of patient care that helps tackle local health inequalities.

Critically appraise complex medicines information and then communicate this to patients, carers, and health care professionals. This includes supporting with medicinesinformation queries.

Review and support the repeat prescribing process to ensure patients are receiving their medication safely.

Maintain comprehensive documentation and records according to legal and local requirements. This includes recordingall relevant pharmaceutical information in the patients record andcommunicating in writing with other health care professionals.

Education and training

Provide training /teaching / education sessions to practice healthcare professionals andadministration staff including GPs, Nurses, Pharmacy Technicians andPharmacists.

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professionaldevelopment activity; working alongside senior clinical pharmacist toidentifying areas to develop.

Gives support to relevant clinical placements.

Research

Looksfor opportunities to contribute to relevant research in collaboration with a range of stakeholders toinnovate and improve patient-centred care.

Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature.

Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidencebase to support practice.

Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level eg through clinical audit.

Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into workingplace.

Leadership and management

Support the medicines optimisation agenda across the PCN toensure:

• Safe and effective prescribing including that related to shared-care.
• Implementation of shared decision making.
• Prompt identification and addressing of medicines related issues.
• Compliance with relevant medicines legislation.
• Delivery of antimicrobial stewardship.
• Quality improvement including medicines-related digital andoperational transformation.
• Contribute to thedelivery of Network Contract DES, quality and outcomes framework andenhanced services.
• Develop own knowledgeand skills with a particular focus on primary care through continuousprofessional development activity.
• Be an active memberof the practice team by the attendance and presentation at staff meetings,training sessions, external courses, reflective practice, and clinicalsupervision.

Clinical governance

Develop and co-ordinate the implementation of relevant clinical audits within the PCN to support improvements in care.

Participate in and promote the recording and discussion of significant learning events.

Support with the cascade of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) to the MHRA and ensure that any drug recalls /alerts are actioned within the PCN.

Equality and diversity

Support a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Support the creation of services that meets the needs of all peopleand communities avoiding unlawful discriminatory behaviour and actions.

Care Quality Commission

To work with general practice team to ensure thatpractices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

To be professionally and legally responsible andaccountable for all aspects of own work (including non-medical prescribing);maintaining own continuous personal development and professionalaccreditation as required by the General Pharmaceutical Council.

To work unsupervised and to use own initiative withinprofessional boundaries, for example to initiate, manage and record ownmeetings as necessary.

Plan and prioritise own workload to ensure an equitableservice across all practices and delivery of workplans within the PCN.

Confidentiality

To respect patient confidentiality at alltimes and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by therequirements of the role.

Special Working Conditions

The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.

The post-holder may have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates;urine etc while in clinical practice.

Health and Safety/Risk Management

Thepost-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safetypolicies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures andreporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.

Thepost-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access toHealth Records Act (1990).

This role profilesummarises the main responsibilities and requirements of the role only. The post holder will carry out any otherduties as may reasonably be required by their line manager in line with thegrade / band of the post.

Job Description Agreement

This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasksand responsibilities only. There may beother duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regularreview and may be amended to take into account development within thePractice. All members of staff should beprepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order tomaintain the efficient running of the Practice.

Additional responsibilities

To maintain the confidentiality of anyinformation which comes into your possession regarding patients, employees,services or any other business relating to the organisation.

To undertake any additional dutiescommensurate with the post and grade, as may be required from time to time, asdirected by your line manager.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Membership of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Skills & Knowledge

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• An understanding of the role of the clinical pharmacist within a primary care network.
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to communicate and create plans and reports
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Understand the principles of research governance
• Knowledge and ability to use GP clinical systems

Experience

• Significant post qualifying experience as a pharmacist
• Minimum 2 years' experience of working as a pharmacist within primary care (GP Practice)

Personal Qualities & Attributes

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of colleagues from the NHS and other organisations and with patients using appropriate media including good written, and oral communication skills
• Ability to identify and manage risk when working with individuals
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Ability to provide leadership and finish work tasks
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
• Can work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding lone working information governance, and health and safety

Other

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Self-motivated
• Ongoing up to date safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Immunisation status
• Access to own transport or ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
• Ability to work in different locations and help to provide cover for absent colleagues, and to take part in an extended working day in line with other general practice colleagues

Qualifications & Training

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy
• Demonstrates understanding of and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Holding an independent prescribing qualification
• Clinical Diploma or significant Clinical Experience

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.