Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Pharmacy Team! Based across our network of 6 practices within the Primary Care Network (PCN), you'll become an integral part of a supportive and collaborative team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. This is your chance to take on a rewarding role where your skills will contribute directly to improving patient health outcomes in our community.

Main duties of the job
In this role, the post holder will work as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient-facing interactions.

A key responsibility of the post holder will be conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring their treatment regimens are both safe and effective.

The post holder will serve as a primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice on prescription and medication queries. They will play a crucial role in supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing systems for safer prescribing. Additionally, they will offer expert clinical guidance on medicines, addressing the public and social care needs of patients.

About us
North Wilts Border PCN is a vibrant, forward-thinking Primary Care Network serving over 56,000 patients across North Wiltshire and the Swindon borders. Our network brings together six GP practices:

• Malmesbury Primary Care Centre
• New Court Surgery
• Purton Surgery
• Cricklade Surgery
• The Tolsey Surgery
• Tinkers Lane Surgery.

Working collaboratively, we provide coordinated, accessible, and flexible services that go beyond traditional GP appointments. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, paramedics, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, and social prescribing link workers, supporting patients medical, social, and wellbeing needs to ensure truly holistic care.

We are also a teaching and training network, supporting medical students from the University of Bath and GP trainees from across the South West, helping develop the next generation of healthcare professionals.

This is your chance to join a supportive environment where innovation, teamwork, and high-quality patient care are at the heart of everything we do.

Right to Work in the UK:
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the legal right to work in the UK.

Details
Date posted: 26 August 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: W0050-26-0016

Job locations
Tinkers Lane Surgery
Tinkers Field
Royal Wootton Bassett
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN4 7AT
United Kingdom

Doctors Surgery
Willis Way
Purton
Swindon
SN5 4BD
United Kingdom

New Court Surgery
Borough Fields Shopping Centre
Royal Wootton Bassett
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN4 7AX
United Kingdom

Malmesbury Primary Care Centre
Priory Way
Malmesbury
Wiltshire
SN16 0FB
United Kingdom

The Surgery
113 High Street
Cricklade
Swindon
SN6 6AE
United Kingdom

The Tolsey Surgery
High Street
Sherston
Malmesbury
Wiltshire
SN16 0LQ
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities

• Patient facing Long term condition clinics (where appropriate).
• See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma, Diabetes).
• Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Telephone or Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist team leader, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Telephone or Patient facing care home medication reviews

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Domiciliary clinical medication review
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

• Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
• Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
• Telephone medicines support
• Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

• Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
• Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions

• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
• To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Signposting

• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat prescribing

• Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk stratification

• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Service development

• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Information management

• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Medicines safety

• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
• Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
• Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
• Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy,
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Commitment to undertaking the CPPE pathway training, followed by Independent Prescribing qualification.

Desirable

• CPPE (or equivalent) trained or already on the pathway
• Independent prescribing qualification

Experience
Desirable

• Experience in working with computerised health care systems.
• At least 1 year post-qualification experience in General Practice, hospital or community pharmacy.
• Previous experience of 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 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).

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.