Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary
Uppingham Surgery is looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist with excellent clinical skills, warmth and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient-centred care. Working within our multidisciplinary team serving approximately 12,800 patients, you will play a key role in medicines optimisation, prescribing quality and long-term condition management.

Main duties of the job

• Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems for the practice team, patients and carers.
• Manage patients living with long-term conditions and complex medication needs.
• Deliver patient-facing consultations to improve outcomes and reduce workload for other clinicians.
• Undertake high-quality medication reviews and develop individualised treatment plans, particularly for elderly and high-risk patients.
• Improve patient understanding, confidence and compliance with medicines.
• Support medicines reconciliation and prescribing safety following hospital admissions and attendance.
• Drive improvements in prescribing quality through clinical audit, education and adherence to NICE guidance and clinical standards.
• Work closely with community pharmacists and wider healthcare partners to improve patient experience.
• Participate in service redesign, clinical supervision and ongoing professional development.
• Provide training, mentoring and medicines-management advice to colleagues.

About us
We are a well-established, forward-thinking practice committed to delivering high-quality, patient-first healthcare within a supportive and collaborative working environment. Based in modern, purpose-built facilities, we are proud of our passionate and experienced Partnership and management team and our active involvement in Rutland Health PCN.

We value our people and place a strong emphasis on both professional development and personal wellbeing. Our experienced and cohesive team works together with a shared commitment to making a difference, recognising that everyone has their part to play in delivering excellent patient care.

We offer the benefits of NHS employment, including auto-enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme, alongside a positive working environment where staff are valued, supported and encouraged to thrive.

Details
Date posted: 10 August 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: A0913-26-0000
Job locations: North Gate, Uppingham, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 9EG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The Clinical Pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation
• Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision means:

Each clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist

The senior clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor

Each clinical pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development

A ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to no more than five junior clinical pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place

• To act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships
• To consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
• To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
• To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
• To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
• To manage a caseload of complex patients
• To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
• To deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
• To provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
• To review medications for newly registered patients
• To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
• To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
• To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
• To provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
• To organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems

Additional responsibilities

• To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• To develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
• To ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
• To provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system
• To support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies
• To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional
• To manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions and to provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life care
• To review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
• To provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care
• To handle prescription queries and requests directly
• To provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the organisation, patients and their carers
• To support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation
• To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events
• To undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
• To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
• To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
• To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
• To maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Master of Pharmacy Degree
• GPhC registration

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber qualification
• CPPE qualification
• Primary care experience

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Uppingham Surgery
Address: North Gate, Uppingham, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 9EG, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Practice Manager
Vicki Abbott
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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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.