Practice based Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Warminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Avenue Surgery is seeking a Practice based Clinical Pharmacist to join their team in Warminster. The role involves managing patient medication, conducting clinical reviews, and supporting the pharmacy team in a community-oriented practice. The successful candidate will have opportunities for professional development, including becoming a non-medical prescriber.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist.
• Ability to manage chronic disease areas and undertake clinical medication reviews.
• Experience in patient-facing roles and medicines optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct patient-facing clinics for medication reviews and chronic disease management.
• Support the pharmacy team and manage medication queries.
• Ensure compliance with local and national guidelines.

Skills

Patient assessment

Medication management

Clinical reviews

Patient support

Education

Pharmacy degree

PCCE pathway enrollment

Job description

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Job Summary

The Avenue Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to join our like-minded team. The successful individual will play an important role in working with the current pharmacy team to ensure excellent standards of repeat prescribing, medication reviews, medicine optimisation, and contributing to improving the quality of care for our practice patient population. The pharmacist will be in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

The individual will be required to enroll and complete the PCCE pathway and will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber (if not already qualified).

Main duties of the job

1. Patient-facing clinics dealing with LTC, clinical medication review, care home medication, and domiciliary medication reviews.
2. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments and patient medicines support.
3. Management of medication at discharge from hospital, review of unplanned hospital admissions.
4. Repeat prescribing, risk stratification, service development, and medicines safety.
5. Ensuring that all local and national guidelines are implemented and formulary recommendations are followed.

About Us

The Avenue Surgery is a non-dispensing, training practice caring for approximately 18,500 patients in and around Warminster, Wiltshire, within easy commute to Bath and Salisbury. Led by 8 GP partners and a dedicated team, we are committed to providing a community-oriented service focusing on care, health promotion, and education.

Date posted: 30 April 2025

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: Depending on experience and subject to ARRS funding per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: A1160-25-0001

Job locations: 14 The Avenue, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 9AA

Job Description

Job responsibilities include:

• Supporting and working alongside the pharmacy team within the practice.
• Managing chronic disease areas and undertaking clinical medication reviews.
• Providing primary support for prescription and medication queries.
• Supporting medicines optimisation, quality improvement, and safety initiatives.
• Ensuring integration with community and hospital pharmacy services.
• Developing into a non-medical prescriber.