Clinical Pharmacist/Senior Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 12 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | Chesterfield, S45 9NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0213-26-0000 |
Summary
Patient facing Long-term condition Clinics: Review patients with single or multiple medical problems integrating into existing General practices teams long term conditions clinics (e.g. Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart disease, Asthma.). Review medications for these patients assessing on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and to support patients ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation) Patient facing Clinical Medication Review (targeted patient cohorts) Undertake clinical medication reviews of specific groups of patients identified as priority, such as, medications more likely to cause harm, severe frailty, potentially addictive medications, Atrial Fibrillation anticoagulation reviews, gastroprotection reviews and others identified by the practice as priority. Domiciliary medication reviews(housebound or care home residents) Undertake clinical medication reviews with these patients, liaison with the Community support teams if necessary Patient facing /telephone medicines support Provide patients advise with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy). Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes Un-planned hospital admissions 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. 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 Clinical supervision and support To Pharmacy technicians and Foundation pharmacists within the team Repeat prescribing Support the repeat prescriptions system in practices, reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a blood test or a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Risk stratification Identification of practice and PCN priorities through data analysing and prioritise patients to review. To use medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making Service development Contribute with pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Medicines Quality Improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team Medicines safety Support and help the technical team implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Education and Training Provide education and training to peers and other primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public Health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.