Clinical Pharmacist
Job Description
Job summary
Priory Medical Centre is a forward thinking, patient centred GP practice in the heart of Warwick, committed to delivering safe, high quality care to our community. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our multidisciplinary team as part of a 12month maternity cover period.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive environment where pharmacists are valued as integral clinical decision makers. You will contribute to medication optimisation, long term condition management, medicines safety, and patient facing clinics within your scope of practice. If you hold an Independent Prescribing qualification - or are working towards it - you will have the chance to use and develop your skills further.
You will be joining a friendly, collaborative team including GPs, ANPs, Nurses, HCAs, CP's, PT's, Paramedics, PCN colleagues, and administrative staff, all focused on delivering excellent patient outcomes. We offer flexibility in working hours across both Core and Extended Hours, making this an ideal role for someone seeking a balanced and rewarding position within a modern, supportive practice.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Pharmacist at Priory Medical Centre, you will play a key role in delivering safe, effective, person centred care. Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will clinically assess and treat patients, provide expert medicines guidance, and contribute to longterm condition management. You will undertake structured medication reviews, optimise complex polypharmacy, support frail and vulnerable patients, and help reduce health inequalities. Independent Prescribers, or those working towards qualification, will deliver patient facing clinics and prescribe within scope.
You will lead on medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship, shared care protocols, and high risk drug monitoring. The role includes managing medicines queries, supporting repeat prescribing systems, improving prescribing quality through audit and education, and contributing to QOF and enhanced services. You will work closely with community, hospital, and specialist pharmacy teams to improve patient outcomes and access to care.
Clinical supervision, professional development, and integration within a wider pharmacy network are central to the role. You will support public health campaigns, uphold safeguarding responsibilities, maintain accurate clinical records, and contribute to continuous quality improvement across the organisation.
About us
Priory Medical Centre is a well-established Warwick GP Partnership with a list size of approximately 19,000 patients and one branch surgery. We have 5 GP Partners and a full complement of additional staff including Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Paramedics and a strong administrative team.
We are a recognised training practice for GP Registrars & Medical Students are regularly host trainees throughout their training.
In June 2021, the practice moved into a brand new purpose built surgery designed with patient care in mind. The new building is a modern, energy efficient & fit for purpose building that enables the practice to provide better services to our patients.
The new facilities act as the main surgery, with a branch surgery still available to patients on Woodloes Park at the following address: 1 Brese Avenue, Woodloes Park, Warwick, CV34 5TS.
Our Vision
To provide accessible and cohesive patient centred care in a supportive town centre environment that continually strives to improve
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist delivering health services.
- 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 to improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help to 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:
- o Each Clinical Pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist
- o The Senior Clinical Pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor
- o Each Clinical Pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development
- o A ratio of one Senior Clinical Pharmacist to no more than five junior Clinical Pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place
- Act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships
- Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
- Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
- Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
- Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
- Manage a caseload of complex patients
- Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
- Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
- Review medications for newly registered patients
- Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
- Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
- Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
- Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
- Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system
- Support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies
- Actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional
- 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
- Review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
- Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current ...
