Clinical Community Pharmacist in Preston

Post: Clinical Pharmacist for Compass Medical Practice

Pay: £24.45 - £27.98 depending on experience

Hours: 8 hours/week can be worked over a period between Monday - Friday 08:00 - 18:30

Accountable to: Clinical Head of Primary and Community Care

Reports to: Clinical Manager Inclusion Health

These include GP Out of Hours services, Urgent Treatment Centres, and a range of other Primary Care Services including Enhanced Access (Fylde Coast) and Special Allocation Services (Lancashire / Cumbria/Parts of Cheshire and Merseyside).

For this role, the Clinical Pharmacist would work within our Special Allocation Service which is a GP practice for difficult-to-doctor patients and those with complex needs. We are seeking a proactive and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join Compass Medical Practice as a valued member of our multidisciplinary clinical team. The post holder will play a key role in optimising medicine use, improving patient safety, and supporting high-quality prescribing across the practice.

This includes:

• Conducting structured medication reviews with a focus on patients with complex needs, polypharmacy, frailty, and long-term conditions
• Leading and supporting deprescribing where appropriate, in line with national and local guidance
• Optimising medicines to improve patient outcomes, safety, and adherence
• Providing clinical advice to GPs, ACPS, Nurses, and other members of the Clinical Team regarding prescribing and medicines management
• Responding to medicines-related queries from patients and clinicians
• Developing and encouraging positive working relationships with local GP Practices, housing, social work, voluntary services, drug and alcohol, mental health, dental, secondary care, and other appropriate services
• Keeping contemporaneous, accurate, and legible records of all patient contacts and contributing to electronic data recording and audit as directed by the service

Prescribing & Medicines Management:

• Identifying and resolving prescribing issues, including high-risk medications
• Contributing to medicines reconciliation when required

Audit, Quality & Governance:

• Undertaking and contributing to prescribing audits and quality improvement projects
• Supporting achievement of QoF and other contractual requirements related to medicines optimisation
• Ensuring prescribing aligns with local formularies, NICE guidance, and best practice

The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.

Ensure full accreditation and requirements of practice to include full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Attend training, professional meetings, and organised events. Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene at all times. Support education and training of staff in relation to medicines and prescribing. Contribute to the ongoing development of pharmacy services within the practice.

Communicates effectively with other healthcare professionals.

Disability Confident Employer - As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references, and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

Experience required:

• Working in primary care, general practice
• Strong knowledge and understanding of medicine optimisation, polypharmacy, and deprescribing
• Experience of prescribing audits and quality improvement work
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in primary care
• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience working in Inclusion Health / Multiple disadvantage

Personal Qualities:

• Implementation of audit/research recommendations
• Competent in the use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• High emotional intelligence