Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 10 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Southend-on-Sea, SS1 3HD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5883-25-0007 |
Summary
As a Clinical Pharmacist you will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues, and to provide leadership and mentoring to the prescribing team employed by the Practice. Ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload. Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Demonstrate understanding of governance and be able to implement this appropriately within the workplace. Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to, the workplace vision. Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service. Review progress yearly and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals. Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities. Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation. Demonstrate understanding of, and conform to, relevant standards of practice. Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol. Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management. Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team. Mentor a team of differing abilities. Work autonomously with significant discretion Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient-Facing Medicines Support Provide patient facing clinics, telephone calls and video consultations for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Analyse and interpret complex information and communicate this information using a variety of methods to patients carers and other health professionals to promote the safe, high quality and cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions. Management of Medicines at Change of Care Setting Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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). Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from network staff. Drug Monitoring Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring, streamlining these where beneficial. Repeat Prescribing Ensure the surgery has a robust repeat prescribing policy. You may be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Information Management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Produce timely reports and papers, updating databases on benefits/outcomes of services, using relevant appropriate IT packages where required including excel, project management tools. This should be carried out to agreed criteria and plans developed for correcting mitigating circumstances if targets not achieved.