Clinical Pharmacist
Newgate Medical Group
Worksop, S80 1HP
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
20 September 2026
20 days left
Job description
Newgate Medical Group is searching for a Clinical Pharmacist to become part of a supportive, forward-thinking primary care team committed to deliverin...
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will play a key role within our multidisciplinary primary care team, providing expert clinical pharmacy services to improve patient outcomes and support safe, effective prescribing. You will undertake structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, optimise medicines, and provide specialist advice to patients and healthcare professionals. Working closely with GPs, nurses, community pharmacies and secondary care, you will help ensure seamless medicines management across care settings. The role also includes supporting quality improvement initiatives, promoting evidence-based practice, contributing to service development, and providing education and support to colleagues. This is an excellent opportunity to work collaboratively within a supportive pharmacist network while making a meaningful difference to patient care.
The following key responsibilities in delivering health
services at Newgate Medical Group.There may be, on occasion, a
requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such
As workload and staffing levels
Primary responsibilities
- Provide patient-facing clinical pharmacy
services as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Assess, treat and prescribe within professional
competence.
- Carry out structured medication reviews and
optimise medicines for patients with long-term conditions and complex needs.
- Support medicines optimisation, antimicrobial
stewardship and quality improvement initiatives.
- Promote safe, effective and cost-efficient
prescribing.
- Manage repeat prescribing, medication monitoring
and high-risk drug recalls.
- Respond to medicines-related queries from
patients and healthcare professionals.
- Conduct medication reviews for newly registered
patients, care home residents and housebound patients.
- Deliver long-term condition clinics and
pharmaceutical consultations.
- Work collaboratively with GPs, community
pharmacies, hospitals and wider healthcare teams.
- Lead on medicines management processes and
prescribing systems.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and comply
with professional, legal and safeguarding requirements.
- Support clinical audit, service improvement and
implementation of national guidance (including NICE).
- Supervise the safe storage, handling and
disposal of medicines and vaccines.
- Participate in clinical supervision, mandatory
training, appraisal and continuing professional development.
- Contribute to enhanced services, public health
initiatives and clinical governance.
- Provide leadership, education and support to
colleagues on medicines-related matters.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to the role
as required.
In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Clinical
Pharmacist will
- Support the delivery of QOF, QIPP, incentive
schemes and other quality improvement initiatives.
- Review prescribing formularies, protocols and
compliance.
- Improve the quality of medicines data and
clinical coding.
- Deliver training, mentoring and
medicines-related guidance to colleagues and students.
- Work with hospital and community pharmacy teams
to improve medicines safety and continuity of care.
- Provide leadership and support to prescription
and dispensary staff.
- Develop and share medicines information through
newsletters, bulletins and education.
- Develop and maintain a specialist area of
clinical expertise.
- Support digital models of care, including remote
consultations and medication reviews.
- Undertake duties appropriate to the role and
contribute to the effective delivery of the service.
Newgate Medical Group (NMG) is a welcoming & busy single
practice Primary Care Network (PCN) with over 30,000 patients. We have an
established team of 9 GP Partners & a host of varied health professionals
including pharmacists, nurses, ANP's, PA, Paramedics, Social Prescribing link
worker, care co-ordinators & a large admin team. We offer a supportive team
environment, training, pension and good holiday package for the right
candidate.
We are a forward thinking, supportive Practice that embraces
new ideas and innovation with the aim of producing better patient outcomes and
efficient ways of working. Our dedicated team is crucial to the success of the
Practice and the service it provides to our patient population. Ongoing
rigorous processes of evaluation and review inform every aspect of the services
we provide, within each department, to ensure our high standards never slip. We
aim to provide a good work life balance, support our staff to develop, feel
engaged and part of the Newgate Medical Group team.
This is an exiting time to join the team as we open our new
Health and Wellbeing Hub that will benefit residents and patients across the
area whilst developing our team further.
If you believe in the importance & effectiveness of
providing excellent service and support where NMG & our patients need it,
we would love to hear from you.
Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC registered pharmacist.
- To be enrolled in, or has qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways).
- Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification.
- Proof of relevant professional and educational qualifications, coupled with details of any training.
Desirable
- Working towards faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Medicines management qualification
- Minor ailments certification
- MUR and repeat dispensing certification
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiation and organisational skills with the ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of managers and clinicians.
- Understanding of safeguarding adults and children.
- Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters.
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs.
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes.
Desirable
- Good clinical system IT knowledge.
- Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Effective time management (planning and organising).
- Ability to follow legal, ethical and professional policies/local policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
- Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity.
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
- Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure.
- Knowledge of IT systems including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of and ability to work to key policies and procedures.
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development.
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations.
- Clear, polite telephone manner.
Desirable
- Effectively utilise resources.
Experience
Essential
- An appreciation of the nature of general practice and the nature of primary care prescribing, the concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.
Desirable
- Experience of managing pharmacy services in primary care.
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Understanding of the mentorship process.
- Experience of working autonomously.
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First seen
27 August 2026
Last checked
28 August 2026
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