Inpatient Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

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Job summary

The Clinical Pharmacist role at HCRG Care Group in Swindon delivers a patient-centred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients within a multidisciplinary ward team. You will support evidence-based prescribing decisions, optimise outcomes, and enhance medicines safety, contributing to continuity of care along the wider healthcare pathway.

Based at Swindon Intermediate Care Centre, the post is 18.75 hours per week, offering a flexible opportunity to make a meaningful clinical impact within a

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive clinical medication reviews for inpatients, optimising treatment and improving patient outcomes.
• Provide expert prescribing, therapeutics, and medicines-related advice to clinical and non-clinical colleagues, including doctors, nurses, nursing associates, pharmacy technicians, and wider health and social care professionals.
• Lead on medicines optimisation, supporting patients to gain the maximum benefit from their medicines.
• Actively promote the safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of medicines in line with best practice and local formulary guidance.
• Identify and address unmet pharmaceutical needs, ensuring high standards of medicines safety and governance.
• Undertake deprescribing activities, reducing unnecessary medicines and minimising pharmaceutical waste.
• Provide professional leadership on the ward for medicines-related matters, including risk management, clinical governance, formulary compliance, service development, and expenditure awareness.
• Support safe and timely patient discharge through effective medicines reconciliation and coordination with the wider care team.
• Deliver high-quality, patient-facing care, engaging directly with patients and carers to support understanding and adherence.
• Contribute to the development of the workforce by providing education and training on medicines optimisation to ward-based staff.

Job description

The Clinical Pharmacist role at HCRG Care Group in Swindon delivers a patient-centred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients within a multidisciplinary ward team. You will support evidence-based prescribing decisions, optimise outcomes, and enhance medicines safety, contributing to continuity of care along the wider healthcare pathway.

Based at Swindon Intermediate Care Centre, the post is 18.75 hours per week, offering a flexible opportunity to make a meaningful clinical impact within a