Pharmacist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Nottingham, NG7 6ER
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Jul 2026
Closing date:	21 Aug 2026

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Summary

Act as a credible and independent source of highly specialised, up to date, pharmaceutical advice to promote high quality evidence based cost-effective prescribing to GPs and the public (limited to the practice area). This advice involves obtaining, interpreting and evaluating medical research and other technical information in order to promote the clinical and cost-effective use of medicines. Advise prescribers in order to optimise patients medicines to maximise treatment outcomes and minimise medicines-related risk and waste, through medication review and clinical audit within agreed protocols. This involves reviewing: drug choice and dosage drug interactions appropriateness of therapy, including identification of therapeutic duplications or omissions formulary issues patients requiring monitoring for medicine efficacy or toxicity e.g. blood pressure, blood tests medicines administration issues e.g. poor compliance patient concomitant medical problems social issues Organise and action drug changes in the practice for quality and cost reasons arising from work, communicating changes in medicines to patients either by letter, telephone, or in person and documenting changes made. Manage patients with more complex long term conditions in patient facing clinics and, if required, by undertaking domiciliary visits Undertake medication review for patients with complex long term conditions both from records and in patient facing clinics and, if required, by undertaking domiciliary visits It is expected where necessary and appropriate that the post holder will work as an independent non-medical prescriber.

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