Job Description

We are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist, to work full time, based within the practice, alongside our existing pharmacy team. This is a key role, intended to support the delivery of the pharmacist role in primary care ensuring that we continue to provide high quality, accessible and responsive services for our patients and pharmaceutical advice to our wider healthcare team.
The successful candidate will have experience working autonomously across a broad range of clinical areas in general practice.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering direct patient care and work with the wider practice team to improve safety and quality. The role will be focused on stable clinical conditions, releasing their GP colleagues to deal with complex or acute illnesses. You will have specialist pharmaceutical skills and knowledge tailored to local primary care needs that will help practices deliver on agreed priorities and improve outcomes.
About us
We are a large, dynamic, friendly practice consisting of 4 Partners, 14 Salaried GPs, 6 Clinical Pharmacists, 2 Practice Nurses, 2 HCAs, 3 Phlebotomists & 2 Social Prescribers. We serve 25,000 patients with a focus on clinical excellence and engagement with the modern NHS. Being located adjacent to the University of Leicester we do have a large student population.
We have a very strong team ethos and are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist who can bring their own valuable knowledge and skills to our Practice. We are a teaching Practice with a regular allocation of trainees, we also demonstrate strong performance in QOF, CQC and we play a lead role within our PCN.
Details
Date posted
16 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A2936-25-0003
Job locations
Victoria Park Health Centre
203 Victoria Park Road
Leicester
LE2 1XD
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks.

• To support the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the use of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interface communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and patient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with the primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, including referrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First.
• To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and apply medicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeat prescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working with GP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating.
• To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers and practitioners in our practices. To work closely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices to resolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceutical knowledge.
• To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage a caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offering outcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients where medicines use needs to be optimised e.g., single condition with sub-optimal outcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk or frail patients.
• To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services; focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting in partnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in the team to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to best effect for our patients and our practices.
• To use technology e.g., smart phone apps to enable you to engage and empower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you, other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care and patient empowerment.
• To make effective use of information from practice systems e.g., through searches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resources effectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practice workforce.
• To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, including advanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines and medicines-use policies e.g., shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs are accepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to develop and/or implement new models of care.
• To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improve medicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly at discharge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-care issues acting on behalf of the practice.

Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks.

• To support the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the use of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interface communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and patient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with the primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, including referrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First.
• To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and apply medicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeat prescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working with GP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating.
• To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers and practitioners in our practices. To work closely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices to resolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceutical knowledge.
• To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage a caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offering outcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients where medicines use needs to be optimised e.g., single condition with sub-optimal outcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk or frail patients.
• To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services; focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting in partnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in the team to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to best effect for our patients and our practices.
• To use technology e.g., smart phone apps to enable you to engage and empower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you, other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care and patient empowerment.
• To make effective use of information from practice systems e.g., through searches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resources effectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practice workforce.
• To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, including advanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines and medicines-use policies e.g., shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs are accepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to develop and/or implement new models of care.
• To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improve medicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly at discharge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-care issues acting on behalf of the practice.

Person Specification
Experience
Desirable

• Proven track record of managing face to face consultations with patients and others.
• Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice and providers and social care.
• Ability to demonstrate good working relations across multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems.
• Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.

Qualifications
Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy and current GPhC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to clinical services
• Relevant underpinning knowledge of general practice and evidence-based medicine
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• Membership of RPS or willingness to join

General Practice Experience
Essential

• Has worked as a Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice.

Person Specification
Experience
Desirable

• Proven track record of managing face to face consultations with patients and others.
• Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice and providers and social care.
• Ability to demonstrate good working relations across multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems.
• Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.

Qualifications
Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy and current GPhC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to clinical services
• Relevant underpinning knowledge of general practice and evidence-based medicine
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• Membership of RPS or willingness to join

General Practice Experience
Essential

• Has worked as a Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice.

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