Senior Pharmacist - Acute Care at home (Swindon)

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading community health provider seeks a Senior Pharmacist for their Acute Care at Home service in Swindon. This role involves providing specialist clinical pharmacy services, optimizing medication for patients, and leading a team in a collaborative healthcare environment. The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy and experience in managing pharmacy services.

Benefits

Competitive Pay & Pension

Professional Growth Opportunities

Wellbeing Support

Flexible Pay Options

Learning & Development Support

Recognition & Involvement

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Qualifications

• Experience of managing a team.
• Independent Prescribing annotation or desire to complete qualification.
• Proven track record of service development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee clinical pharmacy services for Hospital at Home.
• Conduct medicine reviews and provide professional advice.
• Supervise pharmacy technicians and rotational pharmacists.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Vacancies Senior Pharmacist - Acute Care at home (Swindon)

Job Introduction

Are you a pharmacist looking for a change? This is an exciting opportunity to join a fairly new team and provide expert support to the service and to patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist who will embrace working within the community setting within Swindon. We are looking for a senior pharmacist (band 8a) but would also consider a development position (band 7-8a) if this is something you are looking towards.

You will be a senior pharmacist supporting Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response. Hospital at Home provides a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care providing treatment and care in a patient’s own home. This supports early discharge out of hospital and prevents avoidable admissions. You will provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to virtual ward patients, optimising medicines and ensuring agreed changes in medication are implemented and sustained. This could involve remote consultations, home visits and attending multidisciplinary team meetings. You will be involved in developing and delivering safe and effective pathways of care to patients for a range of conditions. You will also be a key part of a collaborative approach to Hospital at Home across the BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Please see the job description for further details.

Main Responsibility

Main duties of the job

• Lead, develop and oversee the clinical pharmacy service provided to Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response in line with national standards
• Carry out medicine reviews virtually and face to face in patient homes, as necessary
• Work as an independent prescriber (when trained), optimising medicines and promoting appropriate evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing
• Utilise clinical assessment skills, where competent and appropriate, to support clinical review of patients within Hospital at Home
• Provide professional advice and support during multidisciplinary ward rounds
• Assist in the management of prescribing across the primary/secondary care interface to promote a unified and coordinated approach
• Provide advice and support to patients / carers and health & social care professionals on medication including education around usage and storage
• Support and develop the admission and discharge process to and from Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response services to ensure safe transfer of care in relation to medicines
• Co-ordinate the day-to-day activities of the pharmacy service, supervising and line managing pharmacy technicians and rotational pharmacists within the service

Contact Jo Clarke if you have any questions or to arrange a visit.

Name

Joanne Clarke

Job title

Lead Pharmacist - Community Services and Palliative Care

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experiential practice.
• Independent Prescribing annotation or desire to complete qualification
• Keeping professionally up to date including CPD
• Practice as clinical pharmacist.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Experience of leading on the incorporation of NHS priorities for pharmacy and medicines management in practice.
• Proven track record of service development.
• Knowledge and clear understanding of relevant regulations, guidance and quality standards
• Able to lead and motivate a team and drive change.
• Assertive yet friendly
• Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues of all grades and disciplines.
• Good initiative, planning and time management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills.
• Able to apply advanced clinical pharmacy skills and knowledge in practice.
• Interest in and experience of practice or clinical research.
• Awareness of political priorities and agendas.
• Able to plan and implement projects.
• Able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams
• Good communication, verbal and writte

Package Description

As aBand 8a Senior Pharamacist you’ll be part of our valued team

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Competitive Pay & Pension: Enjoy a Band 8a Agenda for Change salary and NHS pension benefits.
• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and premium offers at national supermarkets, well-known retailers, and indulgent treats like Virgin Experience Days through our Reward Gateway.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, offering access to counselors, career coaching, legal advice, and more.
• Flexible Pay Options: Use Wagestream to track your earnings and access your wages as you need them, without worrying about high-interest loans or overdrafts.
• Learning & Development: Advance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, who collaborate with universities and Health Education England. Access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities to help you grow.
• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas to improve services, and stay informed through regular updates from our leadership team.
• 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

About the Company

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. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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.

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Senior Pharmacist - Acute Care at home (Swindon)

• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/44687/15545
• Contract Type Permanent - Part Time
• Closing Date 15 June, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Additional Clinical Services