Clinical Pharmacist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	from £55,419 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Frinton-on-sea, CO13 9JT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Oct 2026
Closing date:	27 Oct 2026

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Summary

The main responsibilities of the role include: Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas; Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage); Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice; Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement; Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes; Processing specialist treatment letters; Processing hospital medication discharge letters; Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries; Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change; Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics; Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients. Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results. Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need; Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework; Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with; Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication; Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients; Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care; Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES). Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists; Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision; Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary; Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates; Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues; Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes; Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices. across the PCN.

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