Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £22.00 to £28.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £22.00 - £28.00 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Taunton, TA1 2LB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | A2286-25-0001 |
Summary
The post holder will work in both patient-facing and non-patient-facing roles, depending on the needs of the practice, subject to review as the role develops. Applicants must be at least 3 years post-qualified and demonstrate a strong interest in clinical training, continuous professional development, and service improvement. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting medicines management within the practice. The post holder may be asked to take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management, including respiratory conditions, and should demonstrate both experience in primary care and interest in these clinical areas. The post holder may provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription and dispensing system, help with acute prescription requests, support medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public health and social care needs of patients. The post holder will provide clinical support on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and will support and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework, dispensing services quality scheme and enhanced services. The post holder will be familiar with the QOF domains, ensuring that all clinical reviews undertaken are correctly targeted and coded to help the surgery continue their outstanding QOF achievement and be familiar with the Somerset prescribing formulary and scorecard indicators, aiming to optimise prescriptions to align with these. The post holder will ensure 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, requiring a motivated team player with a passion for service development and excellence in primary care delivery. The post holder will be either an independent prescriber or be committed to obtaining this qualification.