Clinical Pharmacist

Newgate Medical Group is searching for a Clinical Pharmacist to become part of a supportive, forward-thinking primary care team committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. This is an exciting opportunity to use your clinical expertise to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of our diverse patient population while working alongside experienced GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. As an integral member of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills, contribute to service improvement initiatives and help shape the future of medicines optimisation within general practice. We are committed to supporting your professional development through clinical supervision, mentorship and ongoing learning opportunities. At Newgate Medical Group, we value collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. If you are passionate about delivering safe, effective and evidence-based patient care and are looking for a rewarding role within a friendly and supportive practice, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide patient-facing clinical pharmacy services as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Assess, treat and prescribe within professional competence.
• Carry out structured medication reviews and optimise medicines for patients with long-term conditions and complex needs.
• Support medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and quality improvement initiatives.
• Promote safe, effective and cost-efficient prescribing.
• Manage repeat prescribing, medication monitoring and high-risk drug recalls.
• Respond to medicines-related queries from patients and healthcare professionals.
• Conduct medication reviews for newly registered patients, care home residents and housebound patients.
• Deliver long-term condition clinics and pharmaceutical consultations.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, community pharmacies, hospitals and wider healthcare teams.
• Lead on medicines management processes and prescribing systems.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and comply with professional, legal and safeguarding requirements.
• Support clinical audit, service improvement and implementation of national guidance (including NICE).
• Supervise the safe storage, handling and disposal of medicines and vaccines.
• Participate in clinical supervision, mandatory training, appraisal and continuing professional development.
• Contribute to enhanced services, public health initiatives and clinical governance.
• Provide leadership, education and support to colleagues on medicines-related matters.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the role as required.

In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Clinical Pharmacist will:

• Support the delivery of QOF, QIPP, incentive schemes and other quality improvement initiatives.
• Review prescribing formularies, protocols and compliance.
• Improve the quality of medicines data and clinical coding.
• Deliver training, mentoring and medicines-related guidance to colleagues and students.
• Work with hospital and community pharmacy teams to improve medicines safety and continuity of care.
• Provide leadership and support to prescription and dispensary staff.
• Develop and share medicines information through newsletters, bulletins and education.
• Develop and maintain a specialist area of clinical expertise.
• Support digital models of care, including remote consultations and medication reviews.
• Undertake duties appropriate to the role and contribute to the effective delivery of the service.

About us:

Newgate Medical Group (NMG) is a welcoming & busy single practice Primary Care Network (PCN) with over 30,000 patients. We have an established team of 9 GP Partners & a host of varied health professionals including pharmacists, nurses, ANP's, PA, Paramedics, Social Prescribing link worker, care co-ordinators & a large admin team. We offer a supportive team environment, training, pension and good holiday package for the right candidate. We are a forward thinking, supportive Practice that embraces new ideas and innovation with the aim of producing better patient outcomes and efficient ways of working. Our dedicated team is crucial to the success of the Practice and the service it provides to our patient population. Ongoing rigorous processes of evaluation and review inform every aspect of the services we provide, within each department, to ensure our high standards never slip. We aim to provide a good work life balance, support our staff to develop, feel engaged and part of the Newgate Medical Group team. This is an exciting time to join the team as we open our new Health and Wellbeing Hub that will benefit residents and patients across the area whilst developing our team further.