Clinical Pharmacist

Posting date:	17 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	31 July 2025
Location:	Lincoln, LN6 3QX
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	A0720-25-0013

Summary

The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist within the PCN. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels. Support complex care patient cohort. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Provide patient facing clinics and telephone support for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes. Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common and minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets. Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Clinical Director, feedback the results and implement changes. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist the PCN in seeing and maintaining a formulary that is hosted on the computer system. Auditing the PCNs compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Collaborative Working Relationships Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the PCN and their role to patient care Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. o Locality or GP prescribing lead o Locality managers o Community nurses and other allied health professionals o Community and hospital pharmacy teams o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation