Clinical Pharmacist
Primary Integrated Community Services
Nottinghamshire, NG19 8BLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
11 October 2026
13 days leftJob description
We are looking for an enthusiastic and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join Mansfield North Primary Care Network, supporting approximately 60,0...
- Deliver patient-facing clinical medication reviews and long-term condition clinics, supporting patients with complex polypharmacy, improving medicines optimisation and helping to achieve better health outcomes.
- Provide expert medicines advice to patients and healthcare professionals, supporting prescribing processes, medicines reconciliation, repeat prescribing, discharge management and safer prescribing initiatives.
- Lead and contribute to quality improvement projects, audits and PCN workstreams while supporting Pharmacy Technicians, driving service development and promoting best practice across the Primary Care Network.
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) and current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Strong knowledge of medicines optimisation, prescribing principles and long-term condition management, with the ability to make evidence-based clinical recommendations.
Neighbourhood team working and Management of neighbourhood technicians
To manage and support the neighbourhood PCN technicians in their development and completion of the CPPE primary care education pathway and delivery of key PCN workstreams, including IIF targets.
Face to face support for the technician within the neighbourhood and close working with other PCN pharmacists within the neighbourhood and wider PCN.
Patient facing long-term condition clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma). 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). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing clinical medication review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing care home medication review
Undertake 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.
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
Undertake 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 aliments
Managing caseload for patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient facing medicines support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Telephone medicines support
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
Unplanned hospital admissions
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.
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
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. 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).
Ensure 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
Produce 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. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk stratification
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.
Service development
Contribute 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
Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines quality improvement
Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Medicines safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
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). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Education and training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public health
To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Collaborative working relationships
- Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g., CCGs)
- Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team
- Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
- Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaise with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
- Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to:
- Patients
- GP, Nurses, and other practice staff
- Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc
- Locality / GP prescribing lead
- Locality managers
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
- NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
- Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
- A flexible approach to a work-life balance
- Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- All staff events and conferences
- Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
- Free parking across many sites
- Personalised induction into the company and job role
Knowledge and skills
Essential
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Personal Qualities
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Experience
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Qualifications
Essential: - Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.; - Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.
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First seen
25 September 2026
Last checked
28 September 2026
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