Clinical Pharmacist
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Chester le Street, DH3 3QD |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 24 Jul 2026 |
| Closing date: | 14 Aug 2026 |
Summary
Be part of a team clinically assessing and treating patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme) Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients across 2 sites and help tackle inequalities Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Consult with patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visit to the local nursing home Manage a caseload of complex patients Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc. Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team Review medications for newly registered patients Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education