Clinical Pharmacist

Posting date:	25 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 July 2025
Location:	Nottingham, NG12 5JU
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	A0045-25-0056

Summary

Post -Clinical Pharmacist Salary Grade -Dependant on experience Reporting to -GP Partner Lead for Pharmacy Accountable to -Partners THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE General Practice is at the heart of the Health and Social Care system and it is critical to have thriving, sustainable general practices that meet local peoples health needs. The Clinical Pharmacist is instrumental in supporting the practice clinically. This is a key role, intended to support the delivery and development of the pharmacist role in primary care and ensure that we continue to provide high quality, accessible and responsive services to both practices and patients. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES -Acts within professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in general practice. - Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role. - Takes responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertakes clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. - Provides primary support to practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. (helps support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the practice) - Provides clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manages some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. - Ensures that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. - The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. - Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision. - Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service. Areas of responsibility for all clinical pharmacists Working with stakeholders Recognise the relevant key multi-professional stakeholders across the ICS to include, and not limited to, the wider health and social care system. Identify and develop relationships with the practice team, private providers, the local primary care team, neighbouring PCNs and other key partners to enable good working relationships and promote and share best practice. Develop networks with local, regional, and national clinical specialist pharmacy interest groups where possible. Clinical Practice Provide telephone, domiciliary and face to face medication reviews, and where competent long-term condition reviews and common/ minor/ self-limiting condition management. Priority areas being complex polypharmacy, frailty, asthma, COPD and people with learning disabilities. Provide face to face and telephone medication expertise. Be a prescriber or be looking to complete relevant training to become a prescriber. Through holistic structured medication reviews, support patients with their medication to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care. Support with medicines reconciliation of hospital discharges and clinic letters Support the provision of patient care that helps tackle local health inequalities. Critically appraise complex medicines information and then communicate this to patients, carers, and health care professionals. This includes supporting with medicines information queries. Review and support the repeat prescribing process to ensure patients are receiving their medication safely. Maintain comprehensive documentation and records according to legal and local requirements. This includes recording all relevant pharmaceutical information in the patients record and communicating in writing with other health care professionals. Education and training Provide training / teaching / education sessions to practice healthcare professionals and administration staff including GPs, Nurses, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists. Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside senior clinical pharmacist to identifying areas to develop Gives support to relevant clinical placements. Research Looks for opportunities to contribute to relevant research in collaboration with a range of stakeholders to innovate and improve patient-centred care. Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level eg through clinical audit Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place Leadership and management Support the medicines optimisation agenda across the PCN to ensure: Safe and effective prescribing including that related to shared-care. Implementation of shared decision making Prompt identification and addressing of medicines related issues Compliance with relevant medicines legislation Delivery of antimicrobial stewardship Quality improvement including medicines-related digital and operational transformation. Contribute to the delivery of Network Contract DES, quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Develop own knowledge and skills with a particular focus on primary care through continuous professional development activity. Be an active member of the practice team by the attendance and presentation at staff meetings, training sessions, external courses, reflective practice, and clinical supervision. Clinical governance Develop and co-ordinate the implementation of relevant clinical audits within the PCN to support improvements in care. Participate in and promote the recording and discussion of significant learning events. Support with the cascade of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) to the MHRA and ensure that any drug recalls / alerts are actioned within the PCN. Equality and diversity Support a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. Support the creation of services that meets the needs of all people and communities avoiding unlawful discriminatory behaviour and actions. Care Quality Commission To work with general practice team to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Professional autonomy To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work (including non-medical prescribing); maintaining own continuous personal development and professional accreditation as required by the General Pharmaceutical Council. To work unsupervised and to use own initiative within professional boundaries, for example to initiate, manage and record own meetings as necessary. Plan and prioritise own workload to ensure an equitable service across all practices and delivery of workplans within the PCN. Confidentiality To respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role. Special Working Conditions The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies. The post-holder may have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates; urine etc while in clinical practice. Health and Safety/Risk Management The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System. The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990). This role profile summarises the main responsibilities and requirements of the role only. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager in line with the grade / band of the post. Job Description Agreement This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the Practice. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the Practice. Additional responsibilities To maintain the confidentiality of any information which comes into your possession regarding patients, employees, services or any other business relating to the organisation. To undertake any additional duties commensurate with the post and grade, as may be required from time to time, as directed by your line manager.