Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Clinical Pharmacist to join their Pharmacy Team. In this full‑time position, you will work alongside a multidisciplinary team to conduct clinical medication reviews and manage patients with complex medication needs. The role offers opportunities to improve patient health outcomes in the community, and requires a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy and GPhC registration. This is an excellent chance to contribute to holistic patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Commitment to undertake CPPE pathway training for Independent Prescribing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct clinical medication reviews to manage patients with polypharmacy.
• Provide clinical guidance and support for repeat prescriptions.
• Perform domiciliary clinical medication reviews.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical medication reviews

Medication optimization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy

Job description

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and forward‑thinking Pharmacy Team! Based across our network of 6 practices within the Primary Care Network (PCN), you'll become an integral part of a supportive and collaborative team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. This is your chance to take on a rewarding role where your skills will contribute directly to improving patient health outcomes in our community.

Main duties of the job

In this role, the post holder will work as an integral part of a multi‑disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient‑facing interactions. A key responsibility will be conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring their treatment regimens are safe and effective. The post holder will serve as a primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice, supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing safer prescribing systems. Additionally, they will offer expert clinical guidance on medicines, addressing the public and social care needs of patients.

About Us

North Wilts Border PCN is a vibrant, forward‑thinking Primary Care Network serving over 56,000 patients across North Wiltshire and the Swindon borders. Our network brings together six GP practices: Malmesbury Primary Care Centre; New Court Surgery; Purton Surgery; Cricklade Surgery; The Tolsey Surgery; Tinkers Lane Surgery.

Working collaboratively, we provide coordinated, accessible, and flexible services that go beyond traditional GP appointments. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, paramedics, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, and social prescribing link workers, supporting patients’ medical, social, and wellbeing needs to ensure truly holistic care.

We are also a teaching and training network, supporting medical students from the University of Bath and GP trainees from across the South West, helping develop the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Right to Work in the UK

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the legal right to work in the UK.

Details

Date posted: 04 December 2025

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract and Working Pattern

Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time

Locations

• Tinkers Lane Surgery (Tinkers Field, Royal Wootton Bassett, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN4 7AT)
• New Court Surgery (Borough Fields Shopping Centre, Royal Wootton Bassett, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN4 7AX)
• Malmesbury Primary Care Centre (Priory Way, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 0FB)
• Cricklade Surgery (113 High Street, Cricklade, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN6 6AE)
• The Tolsey Surgery (High Street, Sherston, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 0LQ)

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Patient‑facing long‑term condition clinics (where appropriate).
• See patients with single or multiple medical problems requiring medicine optimisation (e.g. COPD, asthma, diabetes).
• Review ongoing need for each medicine, assess monitoring requirements, and support patients with medication use to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Make appropriate recommendations to senior pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients, producing recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist team leader, nurses, and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
• Conduct care‑home medication reviews, working with care‑home staff to improve safety of medication ordering and administration.
• Perform domiciliary clinical medication reviews, attending and referring patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self‑limiting ailments within 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 and a telephone help‑line for medicines queries and concerns.
• Answer medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams, and patients; suggest and recommend solutions; provide follow‑up to monitor effects.
• Review medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions through audit and individual patient reviews; implement changes to reduce prescribing of high‑risk medicines; manage medicines at discharge from hospital and post‑discharge reconciliation.
• Ensure continuity of medicines supply to high‑risk groups, including those with compliance aids or in care homes.
• Implement repeat prescribing policy; manage repeat prescribing re‑authorisation process, review medicines due for decision, and flag those requiring review.
• Maintain a risk stratification system using pre‑prepared computer searches to identify cohorts at high risk of medication harm.
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for development and implementation of new services with medicinal components.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision‑making.
• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feed results, and implement changes with the practice team.
• Implement changes prompted by MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and local/national guidance; monitor prescribing against economic RAG list; assist practices in maintaining a formulary hosted on the computer system.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy; registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC); commitment to undertake the CPPE pathway training, followed by Independent Prescribing qualification.
• Desirable: CPPE (or equivalent) trained or already on the pathway; Independent prescribing qualification.

Experience

• Desirable: Experience working with computerised health care systems.
• At least 1 year post‑qualification experience in general practice, hospital, or community pharmacy.
• Previous experience working in triage or an unscheduled care service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service 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

North Wilts Border PCN Ltd Company
Tinkers Lane Surgery
Tinkers Field
Royal Wootton Bassett
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN4 7AT

Website: bis.northwiltsborderpcn.nhs.uk