Clinical Pharmacist

Posting date:	07 January 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	01 February 2026
Location:	Kidderminster, DY11 6SF
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	A1947-26-0000

Summary

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support practices within the network: Provide expertise in clinical medicines management Provide face to face structured medication reviews especially for patients with polypharmacy; people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities Management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing Manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation Acute prescription requests Manage long term conditions Provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit Contributing to achievement of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and local quality improvement schemes Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held. KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The duties listed are not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the individual practices within the PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist. It is however mandated by NHS England that this role is patient facing in nature. 1. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and work within your scope of practice as an independent prescriber to implement any necessary changes (or produce recommendations for/refer to other prescribing pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs to implement if outside your scope). 2. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas identified by yourself and agreed by the PCN or as directed by the PCN, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. 3. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. 4. Leadership You will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues for the PCN 5. Telephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. 6. 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). 7. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. 8. Drug monitoring Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. 9. Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. 10. Repeat prescribing Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy, and streamline these across the PCN where possible. 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. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required. Support implementation of electronic repeat prescribing where appropriate. 11. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the implementation and delivery of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). 12. Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. 13. Education and Training Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice 14. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. 15. Public health Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. 16. Special working conditions The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings as required The post-holder is likely to need to visit patients in care homes. Work collaboratively with their PCN Clinical Director Participate in the PCN MDT. Liaise with Clinical Director of Pharmacy to access professional support and access training and development opportunities Liaise with ICB Medicines Commissioning colleagues on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks. Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including but not limited to: o Patients and their representatives o GP, nurses and other practice staff o Social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics. o Community pharmacists and support staff o Locality Pharmaceutical Committee and Community Pharmacy PCN leads o Locality / GP prescribing lead o Locality managers o Community nurses and other allied health professionals o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation