Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £36,000.00 to £51,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £36000.00 - £51000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 February 2026 |
| Location: | Cheltenham, GL523EY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0438-23-0001 |
Summary
Please refer to the full job description and personal specification attached to this advert. Brief description (Job Summary and Purpose): The post holder will work within the Cheltenham Central PCN, which includes 5 practices across Cheltenham, ensuring that medicines management processes within these practices are optimised to achieve highly effective, safe and patient-centred prescribing. You will be allocated practices (up to two practices depending on hours worked) to work between within your working hours. Each practice has a buddy system in place, to allow for cross cover and support. This helps embed the individuals in the surgery and improve communications and consistency in cover by sharing knowledge and experience of practice working. We aim for each practice to have a primary or lead Pharmacist who will lead on pharmacy related workflow at the individual practice and be their point of contact with the PCN pharmacy team. This person will liaise with the other pharmacists in the PCN and practice-based teams, and work with the PCN team Lead Pharmacists as required to share best practice and gain support and advice, and top down information from county wide meetings to share with the practice. The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In this role they will be supported by the Lead Clinical Pharmacists who will develop, manage and mentor them The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff dealing with prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription process, deal with acute prescription requests, and carry out medicines reconciliation on transfer of care. They will help implement systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public health and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s). The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and help in the management of some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and local enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post holder will ideally already be an Independent Prescriber and have undertaken the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway or have completed the Exemption and equivalence processes for the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway. However, if they do not hold these qualifications then training will be provided and supported.