Clinical Pharmacist

Posting date:	10 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	01 March 2026
Location:	Burton-on-trent, DE14 1SL
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	A0923-26-0000

Summary

Job Description Practice Pharmacist Title: Practice Pharmacist Responsible (clinically) to: GP Responsible (administratively) to: Practice Manager Job Summary The main purpose of the role is to deliver clinical pharmacy support to Wetmore Road Surgery through management and interventions of your own patient caseload. You will work as part of the general practice team to resolve day-to-day medicine issues and deliver direct patient care. This includes managing long-term conditions, specific advice for those on multiple medications and better access to health checks. Key Responsibilities To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into 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. Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review 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). Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. 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. 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 and flagging up those needing a review to the GP Undertake Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews with patients, implement required actions or produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring as appropriate. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways) Work with the Practice Manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation. To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes. Answers all medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Monitor practice prescribing against the GMMMG RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Support the practice in adopting local and national medication safety strategies such as PINCER. Communication Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating. Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication. Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders. Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues. Delivering a Quality Service Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures. Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality. Deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care. Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation. Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice. Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and team, implementing improvements where required. Collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate. Evaluate the patients response to healthcare provision and the effectiveness of care. Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation. Participate in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis). Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery. Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedures and local guidance. Leadership Personal and People Development Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model Support the development of others in order to maximise potential Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility, specifically, community care, learning disabilities and dementia care. Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance (eg PALS), and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate Team Working Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time. Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working. Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessing competence. Ensure clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs. Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team. Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery. Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care. Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team. Management of Risk Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines. Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to healthcare for all. Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice. Utilising Information Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information. Review and process data using accurate Snomed codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition. Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care. Learning and Development Act as mentor for more junior staff and students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified. Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments. Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate. Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information. Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.