Clinical Pharmacist

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Wages as you earn (pay-on-demand)

Job summary

HCRG Care Group seeks an experienced Clinical Pharmacist (Band 8a) to join the Hospital at Home team delivering acute care at home across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. You will lead medicines optimisation for frail older patients, provide expert pharmaceutical advice, and support clinical decision-making within a multidisciplinary team.

The role includes contributing to clinical governance, developing policies, and ensuring cost-effective, safe prescribing while advancing

Qualifications

• Qualified Pharmacist registered with GPhC and Masters level education.
• Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent with CPD evidence.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in clinical pharmacy within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong knowledge of medicines legislation and cost-effective prescribing.

Responsibilities

• Lead medicines optimisation for older people living with frailty.
• Provide expert pharmaceutical advice and support MDT discussions.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation and governance.
• Develop policies/guidance and support service development.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Clinical governance

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Pharmacist advisory

Communication skills

Cost-awareness

Regulatory compliance

Clinical decision making

Education

Master's degree in Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacy Diploma

Tools

SystmOne

Electronic Prescribing Systems

DATIX

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Teams

Job description

As a Clinical Pharmacist (Band 8a) you will be part of our valued Hospital at Home team working across our BSW hubs, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to play a key role in transforming care for older and frail patients closer to home? We have an exciting opportunity to join our innovative Hospital at Home (H@H) service, supporting the delivery of high-quality acute care within patient's own homes across the BSW system. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, helping to optimise medicines, improve patient outcomes and support personalised care for some of the most complex patients in our communities. Working closely with clinicians, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and wider healthcare professionals, you will provide expert pharmaceutical advice, contribute to Hospital at Home MDT discussions, and support clinical decision‑making that enables safe, effective and patient centred care.

You will lead on medicines optimisation for older people living with frailty, ensuring prescribing is evidence‑based, cost‑effective and tailored to individual needs. This role offers the opportunity to influence service development, contribute to clinical governance and safety initiatives, develop guidance and protocols, and support innovative models of care that reduce hospital admissions and improve patient experience. You will also play an important role in ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, regulatory standards and best practice guidance, helping to maintain the highest standards of pharmaceutical care across the service.

If you are passionate about medicines optimisation, collaborative working and delivering exceptional care in new and innovative ways, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of healthcare delivery across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.

As the Clinical Pharmacist for Hospital at Home, you will lead, deliver and continuously develop a safe, effective and high-quality clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service for patients receiving acute care at home. Working as a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert pharmaceutical advice, attend Hospital at Home MDT meetings, and support personalised care planning for older people living with frailty and complex health needs. You will champion safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing, ensuring medicines are optimised to improve patient outcomes and experience. The role also includes supporting clinical governance, developing policies and guidance, and working with pharmacy leadership colleagues to ensure compliance with medicines legislation, regulatory requirements and best practice standards, maintaining the highest quality of pharmaceutical care across the service.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent (e.g. BSc/BPharm/MPharm), registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
• Clinical Pharmacy Diploma (2 years) or equivalent experience, with evidence of continuing professional development
• At least 2 years' experience working in a clinical pharmacy role, including experience working within a multidisciplinary team
• Good knowledge of medicines legislation and national standards, and of medicines management issues relating to transfer between primary and secondary care
• Knowledge of medication adherence/concordance and options to support safe management of medication by patients in the community
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk management, and of prescribing and pharmaceutical systems/processes across care settings
• Excellent clinical knowledge
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English; able to plan own work, work independently without direct supervision when required, and lead and work as part of a team
• Empathic, diplomatic and able to respond professionally to emotional or confrontational situations, with flexibility in approach to meet service needs
• Good manual dexterity and sufficient IT literacy to use computers in all aspects of the job, including a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams
• Clinical audit skills; able to critically appraise and evaluate evidence, and to work alone
• Able to identify and prioritise complex, time‑sensitive workload and projects, and to deal with complaints and conflict professionally

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Independent Prescriber
• Experience of community health and social care
• Knowledge and experience of patient safety, specifically relating to medicines safety
• Experience of service development and of managing change and/or service improvement
• Familiarity with prescribing analysis ePACT2 data and GP clinical systems
• A good understanding of drug budgets and how to interpret drug expenditure reports
• Experience of training and mentoring pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and/or other healthcare professionals
• Experience of inter‑agency (partnership) working, and experience in Mental Health
• Ability to write up and present projects and audit work; teaching and mentoring skills
• Experience with Electronic Patient Records (e.g. SystmOne), Electronic Prescribing Systems and electronic safety systems (e.g. DATIX)

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.