Clinical Pharmacist

Posting date:	28 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	05 August 2025
Location:	Southend-on-sea, SS3 9DL
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	A5506-25-0010

Summary

Main Responsibilities To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes To plan and organise own workload, including audit, project work, and provide training sessions for other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments To develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other stakeholders Attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the locality and/or practice lead GPs All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance). Key Duties Management of medicines after discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes; identify and rectify unexplained changes; manage these changes without referral to the GP; perform a clinical medication review; produce a post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests. Work 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). Work in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine-related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care Risk stratification Design, develop and implement searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys Red/Amber/Green/Grey lists for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care. Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Audit practices compliance with NICE guidance. Proactively provide practice communications on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence. Unplanned hospital admissions Devise and implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with multi-professional colleagues to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups Repeat prescribing Review, update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Patient facing medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold clinics for patients requiring face-toface clinical medication reviews (CMRs) i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Identify people at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings. Care home medication reviews Manage caseload of care home residents (if required by the practice). Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Long term condition clinics See patients in multi-morbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Service development Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway (e.g. new oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation) Care Quality Commission (CQC) Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved Cost saving programmes Make recommendations for, support and supervise practice prescribing clerks. Make changes to medicines designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Provide follow ups for patients to monitor the effect of any changes Medicines quality improvement Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Either conduct own audits and improvement projects or work with colleagues such as GP registrars. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Contribute to national and local research initiatives Training & Shared Learning Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical students. Facilitate shared learning across the practices on medication related issues, offering professional support and leadership. Professional responsibilities Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her professional actions. Be responsible for remaining up-to-date with CPD requirements to maintain professional registration To ensure own educational commitment is at least sufficient to maintain CPD requirements and to ensure own mandatory training certificates are current, in line with organisational policy. To offer clinical leadership, support and training to colleagues and students. To participate in clinical supervision. To demonstrate a clear understanding of the accountability and legal implications of the role. To participate in a regular performance review with Clinical Pharmacist Manager, using agreed competency framework appropriate to the individuals scope of practice. Clinical Responsibilities Highlight any gaps in knowledge/training needs to the Clinical Pharmacist Manager to allow them the opportunity to offer support in order to fulfil the duties of this post. Remain up-to-date with clinical guidelines to ensure that practice remains evidence based. Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within the boundaries of competence. Work in line with organisational policies and procedural guidelines. Attend and participate in practice meetings as required This role will evolve to meet the changing needs of the population and the Practice Pharmacist should be prepared to undertake further training as required in order to fulfil the duties of this post. Clinical governance For prescribers) Prescribe treatment in line with local and national guidelines and CCG formulary. Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded promptly in the patients notes on SystmOne. Ensure the safety of patients, relatives and colleagues and to report all incidents and near misses in line with the risk management policy. Remain up-to-date with all mandatory training Maintain up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding adult and children guidance to ensure that those at risk of abuse/suffering abuse are identified and the necessary process to protect them is followed Meet responsibilities as an employee as set out in the organisations corporate and clinical policies. Maintain confidentiality at all times. This JD is not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities but rather an outline of the main areas of responsibility. The role is likely to evolve to meet the changing needs of the service.