Clinical Pharmacist (Part Time) in Bristol

We are looking for a part-time Clinical Pharmacist (up to 22.5 hours per week) to join our supportive, forward-thinking GP practice team and make a real difference to patient care. This is a patient-facing role within a well-established multidisciplinary team, with close support and mentorship from an experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist who is committed to developing your skills and confidence. The role is flexible and responsive to the needs of our population, allowing you to use your clinical expertise while helping to shape and develop pharmacy services within our practice. You will have the opportunity to take ownership of defined areas of long-term condition management, build strong relationships with patients and colleagues, and contribute meaningfully to medicines optimisation and patient safety initiatives. This post offers variety, autonomy and professional development, with opportunities to grow your interests, expand your scope of practice and, where applicable, work as an Independent Prescriber. If you are passionate about high-quality patient care, collaborative working and continuous improvement, this role offers a rewarding and supportive environment in which to thrive.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide clinical pharmacy support across the practice, working closely with GPs, nurses and the wider team to improve patient outcomes and optimise medicines use.
• The role includes direct patient contact through clinics, telephone consultations and medication reviews, with a focus on supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex polypharmacy.
• You will play a key role in safe and effective repeat prescribing processes, medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, and responding to medicines‑related queries from both patients and staff.
• There is a strong emphasis on proactive care, patient safety and reducing medicines‑related risk.
• You will also contribute to wider practice priorities such as medicines optimisation projects, audit activity, responding to safety alerts and supporting compliance with regulatory requirements.
• The post holder will manage their own workload, maintain accurate clinical records and work collaboratively with internal and external partners, including community pharmacies and medicines management teams.

About us

We are a 5 Partner high achieving PMS Practice situated in Portishead, a beautiful coastal town in North Somerset overlooking the Severn Estuary, just five miles from the city of Bristol. We were rated the 4th best performing practice within BNSSG from the 2023 NHS patient survey. We are a forward thinking practice with a strong emphasis on teamwork and patient centred care. We work from a new purpose‑built health centre with bright, modern facilities that enable us to offer high quality clinical services to our local population of 11,500 patients. We are also a training practice. We have had consistently high QoF results and were delighted that we were assessed as Good in our latest CQC inspection. We are also a 4.5 star rated practice on Google Reviews.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work with our practice team to provide clinical pharmacist services. The services delivered and their format will be based on a needs assessment and may vary depending on the needs of our population. In this role, they will be supported by our Senior Clinical Pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them. The role will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a patient‑facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of Chronic Disease Management within the practices, with examples such as hypertension reviews, heart failure reviews or lipid management. Opportunities to be involved in other conditions (AF, COPD, asthma, diabetes, minor ailments, etc) may arise and this will depend on the candidates skills and interest as well as on the practices needs and skill mix. The successful candidate will also undertake clinical medication reviews, including SMRs, to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Responsibilities underpinning the role

• To plan and organise the post holders own workload in co‑ordination with the rest of the team.
• To record, in line with Information Governance Policies and Legislation, personally generated information and use the practice clinical system to record any interaction with patients.
• Maintain registration as a Pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.
• Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/ therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments relating to respiratory conditions.
• The post holder will abide by the GP practices operational policies and procedures including Health & Safety, Infection Control, Quality Assurance, Safeguarding Adults & Children, Complaints, Consent and Incident Reporting.

Code of conduct

Pharmacists must comply with the Code of Professional Conduct set by the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the GP Practice Health & Safety Policy.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

Safeguarding

The GP Practices are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, adults and young people. We expect all staff to be trained in adult and child safeguarding.

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practices as part of this employment.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the GP Practices.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team.

Person Specification

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• An understanding of the core activities of GPs and general practices.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to the GP when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade/ the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.

Professional Registration

• Registration with GPhC.
• Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Qualifications

• Independent prescriber.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions 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.