Clinical Pharmacist

In this role, the post holder will work as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient-facing interactions.

A key responsibility of the post holder will be conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring their treatment regimens are both safe and effective.

The post holder will serve as a primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice on prescription and medication queries. They will play a crucial role in supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing systems for safer prescribing. Additionally, they will offer expert clinical guidance on medicines, addressing the public and social care needs of patients.

Key

duties and responsibilities

appropriate).

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See (where appropriate) patients with single or

multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD,

asthma, Diabetes).

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Review the on-going need for each medicine, a

review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their

medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e.

medicines optimisation).

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Make appropriate recommendations to Senior

Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Telephone

or Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for

senior clinical pharmacist team leader, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and

monitoring.

Telephone

or Patient facing care home medication reviews

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the

senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work

with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and

administration.

clinical medication review

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the

senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management

of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

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Managing caseload of patients with

common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice

and limits of competence.

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Signposting to community pharmacy and referring

to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

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Provide patient facing clinics for those with

questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

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Telephone medicines support

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Provide a telephone help line for patients with

questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Medicine

information to practice staff and patients

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Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries

from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community

pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

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Suggesting and recommending solutions.

follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned

hospital admissions

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Review the use of medicines most commonly

associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit

and individual patient reviews.

place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

of medicines at discharge from hospital

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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.

and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g.

those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Signposting

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.

Repeat

prescribing

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Produce and implement a practice repeat

prescribing policy.

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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.

patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk

stratification

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.

Service

development

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient

information leaflets).

Information

management

interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support

decision making.

Medicines

quality improvement

clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the

results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Medicines

safety

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Implement changes to medicines that result from

MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

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Implementation of local and national guidelines

and formulary recommendations

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Monitor practice prescribing against the local

health economys 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).

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Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a

practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

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Auditing practices compliance against NICE

technology assessment guidance.

North Wilts Border PCN is a vibrant, forward-thinking Primary Care Network serving over 56,000 patients across North Wiltshire and the Swindon borders. Our network brings together six GP practices:

Working collaboratively, we provide coordinated, accessible, and flexible services that go beyond traditional GP appointments. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, paramedics, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, and social prescribing link workers, supporting patients medical, social, and wellbeing needs to ensure truly holistic care.

We are also a teaching and training network, supporting medical students from the University of Bath and GP trainees from across the South West, helping develop the next generation of healthcare professionals.

This is your chance to join a supportive environment where innovation, teamwork, and high-quality patient care are at the heart of everything we do.

Right to Work in the UK

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the legal right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

Experience