Job Advert – Clinical Pharmacist

We are seeking a motivated and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic multidisciplinary (MD) team at Westbourne Medical Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to play a key role in delivering high-quality, safe, and effective patient care within a very supportive modern general practice environment. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will work closely with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimise prescribing, improve patient outcomes, and promote evidence-based practice. The role offers a diverse and rewarding workload, including medication reviews, managing long-term conditions, supporting medicines optimisation, and contributing to practice development.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical skills, strong communication abilities, and a commitment to continuous professional development. In return, we offer a welcoming team culture, opportunities for training and career progression, and the chance to make a real difference for our patients and the local community. We offer a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, for a part-time role of 18 to 20 hours per week with a minimum requirement of Wednesday mornings and flexibility for the remaining hours.

Main duties of the job:

• To deliver a high standard of patient care as a Clinical Pharmacist in general practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base.
• To be an expert in prescribing and medicines optimisation within the practice, delivering telephone consultations as part of the duty team and answering all medicines-related queries from the MD team.
• Maintain a flexible approach in collaboration with the GPs and other health professionals to provide comprehensive healthcare sensitive to the needs of the local population.
• To manage own clinical workload in general practice, working within their own professional boundaries, responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patients’ choice and ease of access to services.
• To carry out all duties in a professional manner and adhere to all protocols, policies and guidelines.

About us:

Westbourne Medical Centre is a well-established, patient-focused general practice committed to delivering high-quality, accessible healthcare to our local community. Our multidisciplinary team works collaboratively to provide safe, effective, and personalised care to nearly 21,000 patients, with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and staff development.

Job responsibilities:

• As a prescriber, to prescribe safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, appropriate medication and individualised patient care as defined by current legislative framework.
• Promote and help compliance with the Dorset Formulary.
• Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate.
• Work with the Multi-Disciplinary Teams within the practice to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
• Be prepared to embrace templates, IT and all computer services to update knowledge.
• Develop bespoke integrated pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients.
• Engage with care homes to improve prescribing to residents.
• Work with nursing, medical staff, health care assistant colleagues to ensure that Quality Outcomes Frameworks are being delivered.
• Liaise with hospital pharmacy teams and specialists where appropriate, especially when completing medicines reconciliation from discharges.
• Manage patients with more complex long-term conditions. This will involve direct patient contact in the pharmacist's own clinic sessions.
• Manage repeat prescribing requests, and work to rationalise and improve repeat prescribing systems.
• Offer a holistic approach to the use and understanding of medicines by patients that includes step-up and step-down management required in Long Term Conditions and End of Life.
• Facilitate access to medicines (e.g. sorting out secondary care referrals for specials, unusual formulations etc.).
• Interpret national and local commissioning decisions as they relate to medicines.
• Identify opportunities for savings and efficiencies where that does not conflict with the interests of individual patients.

Professional Role:

• Promote evidence-based practice through use of the latest research-based guidelines.
• Support excellence and innovation in care through clinical audit, quality improvement and clinical research where appropriate.
• Monitor the effectiveness of their clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
• Maintain their professional registration.
• Participate in continuing professional development to ensure that up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained.
• Record accurate consultation data in patient records in accordance with the latest guidance and other pertinent standards.
• Actively take part in mandatory and further training as requested.
• Adhere to practice guidelines re confidentiality.
• Follow all practice Health and Safety guidelines and policies.

Person Specification:

• 5+ years post-qualification experience working with patients from a practice, hospital or community setting.
• In-depth knowledge of medicines and applied therapeutics.
• UK Registered pharmacist.
• Certificate/Diploma in clinical pharmacy.
• NHSE / CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway (PCPEP) Course.

Experience:

• Minimum of five years experience post-qualification.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working.
• Experience of mentoring and training others.
• Experience of writing and reviewing policies/procedures.
• Experience of general practice.

Knowledge and Skills:

• General knowledge of primary care and secondary care working.
• Ability to gather information on unfamiliar topics and disseminate to others.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work alone and in a team.
• Demonstrates ability to organise and prioritise own workload and others in a team under pressure.
• Ability to implement risk management procedures.
• Ability to work developmentally.
• Ability to work with other professionals and influence decisions.
• Ability to reflect on own work and critically assess own work.
• Ability to make good clinical decisions.
• In-depth knowledge of current issues in primary care services.

Other factors relating to the post:

• Ability to motivate self.
• Team player.
• Ability to work with a variety of different professionals with varying levels of knowledge.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Current driving licence and access to own transport.
• Technically competent with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Technically competent in SystmOne.

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.