Clinical Pharmacist in Cornwall

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and forward‑thinking Pharmacy Team. This role is integral to a supportive, collaborative team and contributes directly to improving patient health outcomes in our community.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an integral part of a multi‑disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient‑facing interactions. Key responsibilities include conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring safe and effective treatment regimens. The post holder will be the primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice on prescription and medication queries, supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing safer prescribing systems. Additional duties involve offering expert clinical guidance on medicines and addressing public and social care needs of patients.

Job responsibilities

• Patient‑facing long‑term condition clinics where appropriate.
• Review medicine optimisation for patients with single or multiple medical problems (e.g., COPD, asthma, diabetes).
• Review ongoing need for each medicine, monitoring needs, and support patients with medicines taking.
• Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
• Telephone or patient‑facing clinical medication review.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
• Telephone or patient‑facing care home medication reviews.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Management of common/minor/self‑limiting ailments.
• Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self‑limiting ailments within scope of practice.
• Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Provide patient‑facing clinics for medicines queries and concerns.
• Provide a telephone helpline for medicines queries.
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients.
• Answer relevant medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams, and patients.
• Suggest and recommend solutions.
• Provide follow‑up for patients to monitor the effect of changes.
• Unplanned hospital admissions.
• Review medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Implement changes to reduce prescribing of high‑risk medicines.
• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital and ensure continuity of supply for high‑risk groups.
• Signposting.
• Ensure patients are referred to appropriate healthcare professionals within an appropriate period of time.
• Repeat prescribing.
• Produce and implement practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Manage reauthorisation process and review medicines for high‑risk status.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring tests and identify high‑risk cohorts for medicines.
• Information management.
• Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to support decision making.
• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing; provide feedback and implement changes.
• Implement changes resulting from MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and local/national guidance.
• Assist practice in maintaining a formulary and audit compliance against NICE guidance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Experience

• Experience with computerised health care systems (EMIS Web).
• At least one year post‑qualification experience in general practice, hospital, or community pharmacy.
• Previous experience working in triage or an unscheduled care service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions.

Eligibility

Right to Work in the UK: The post is open to individuals who already have the legal right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not offered.