Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Nottingham is seeking a dedicated pharmacist to support clinical pharmacy activities and medicine optimisation within a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will possess a pharmacy degree, experience in general practice, and a passion for patient care. Benefits include a competitive salary and generous leave entitlements.

Benefits

NHS Pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Education and training opportunities

Flexible work-life balance

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience as a pharmacist is required.
• Knowledge of GP practices is essential.
• Experience with independent prescribing is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary support to general practice staff on prescription queries.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients.
• Assist in managing the repeat prescribing reauthorization process.

Skills

Patient-facing role

Clinical leadership

Medicines optimisation

Common acute conditions awareness

Education

Undergraduate degree in pharmacy

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Job Summary

We are a well-established, forward‑thinking PCN with a large and supportive clinical pharmacy team, with the depth to provide support for newly qualified pharmacists or the opportunity for growth and development for more experienced pharmacists. Medicines Safety is at the heart of our team, working at PCN level to ensure high risk medicines are monitored regularly, along side innovative system one visualisations on drug monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient‑facing role.
• Provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Manage and support the neighbourhood PCN technicians in their development and completion of the CPPE primary care education pathway and delivery of key PCN workstreams, including IIF targets.
• Face‑to‑face support for the technician within the neighbourhood and close working with other PCN pharmacists within the neighbourhood and wider PCN.
• See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma).
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.
• Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Managing caseload for patients with common/minor/self‑limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Provide patient‑facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
• Answer all medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
• Suggest and recommend solutions, providing follow‑up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high‑risk patient groups.
• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.
• Work with patients and Community Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high‑risk groups of patients.
• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate Healthcare Professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time.
• Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre‑prepared practice computer searches.
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
• Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
• Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practice computer system.
• Audit practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
• Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
• Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.

Key Requirements

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Knowledge and understanding of the nature of GP Practices.
• Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long‑term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Recognises priorities when problem‑solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
• Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

About Us

PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solutions through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.

Benefits of Working For PICS

• NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Alternative government‑based scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Generous annual leave entitlement which references NHS Agenda for Change and recognises previous NHS service, starting 35 days pro rata (inc bank holidays)
• Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
• Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
• Working in a multi‑disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
• A flexible approach to a work‑life balance
• Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• All staff events and conferences
• Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
• Free parking across many sites
• Personalised induction into the company and job role

Job Details

Date posted: 19 November 2025
Pay scheme: Depending on experience £38,682 - £54,710 pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time
Reference number: E0220-25-0015NW
Job location: Nottingham West PCN, Nottingham, NG9 1GA

Leadership

• Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
• Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices.
• Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
• Review yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
• Promote diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Management

• Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.
• Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
• Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
• Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Person Specification

• Experience: Provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
• Personal Qualities: Provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
• Knowledge and Skills: Provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
• Qualifications: Provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary. Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

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.

Employer Details

Employer name: Primary Integrated Community Services
Address: Nottingham West PCN, Nottingham, NG9 1GA
Employer's website: http://picsnhs.org.uk/