Clinical Practice Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 11 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS5 7PD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0104-26-0001 |
Summary
Job responsibilities The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist ideally with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice. Longterm condition clinics - See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component. Differential / undeferential diagnosis - Manage own case load for patients and diagnosis of people with long term and or acute, common conditions or ailments. Perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. Managing patients as referred as part of the practices total triage and Care Navigation systems and processes. Telephone and patient facing medicines support. Medicine information to practice staff and patients. Contractual targets - contribute as appropriate, to various medicines related elements in national and local contracts such as QOF, PCN DES and ICB schemes of work. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital. Medication reviews including Care Home and Domiciliary reviews. Medicine information to practice staff and patients. Unplanned hospital admissions - identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case managers, multidisciplinary health and social care review teams, hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm. Risk stratification contribute to design, development and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Working with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Medicines quality improvement. Service development. Repeat prescribing - Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Care Quality Commission, governance and regulation working with the wider clinical and management teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation. Medicines safety contribute to identification of national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials. Training and supervision contribute to the provision of education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare students where appropriate. Engage with activities required for own clinical supervision. Collaborative working - Develop close working relationships with the practice team and wider organisations, understanding their role and contribution to patient services and experience. The post holder will contribute to and participate in local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit. See attached Job Description for full details.