Southend Coastal Surgeries

Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 19 September 2025

Job summary

To be responsible for implementing an effective medicine management system within the practice, including cost-effective prescribing, working as an independent prescriber, providing advice and support for both patients and colleagues. In addition, the post-holder will also support the multi-disciplinary team, in line with the strategic objectives of the practice.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Patient-Facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients, work within your scope of practice to implement any necessary changes reviews could be cohort based within the pharmacists competence. Lead and coordinate medicines optimisation services and clinical pharmacy development to improve quality of care, personalised care and patient experience.

Undertake clinical audits in, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Identify, plan, organise, and co-ordinate the implementation of medicines optimisation initiatives, objectives and complex changes at GP practice to bring about quality improvements in prescribing behaviour and better outcomes for patients including reducing patient harm and improving medication safety.

Provide specialised advice and support in risk management and clinical governance issues and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, patient safety advisory notices.

Review progress yearly and develop clear plans to achieve results set by others.

Attend and contribute to practice, Clinical Meetings when relevant.

About us

Our organisation has a multitude of various trained practitioners, ranging from HCA, GP Assistants, Nurses, Paramedics, Nurse Practitioners, Advance nurse practitioners, GP's.

Acting as the first point of contact for medical advice, treatment, managing both acute and long-term conditions. Services include health advice, vaccinations, screenings, prescriptions and referrals to specialist.

Patients are able to book appointments online, by phone or in person. All are processed through our triage system.

Along with the Time to learn time allocation each month, we provide clinical meetings monthly to keep staff up to date with implemented changes along with presentations from various consultants Our team work extremely well as one to ensure we provide the best care for our patient population.

Date posted

10 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

A5883-25-0007

Job locations

99 Tyrone Road

Thorpe Bay

Southend-on-Sea

Essex

SS1 3HD

North Shoebury Surgery

Frobisher Way

Shoeburyness

Southend-on-sea

SS3 8UT

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Clinical Pharmacist you will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues, and to provide leadership and mentoring to the prescribing team employed by the Practice.

Ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload. 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.

Demonstrate understanding of governance and be able to implement this appropriately within the workplace. Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to, the workplace vision.

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service. Review progress yearly and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities.

Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.

Demonstrate understanding of, and conform to, relevant standards of practice.

Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team. Mentor a team of differing abilities. Work autonomously with significant discretion

Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments

Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient-Facing Medicines Support Provide patient facing clinics, telephone calls and video consultations for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Analyse and interpret complex information and communicate this information using a variety of methods to patients carers and other health professionals to promote the safe, high quality and cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions.

Management of Medicines at Change of Care Setting

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes). Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from network staff.

Drug Monitoring

Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring, streamlining these where beneficial.

Repeat Prescribing Ensure the surgery has a robust repeat prescribing policy. You may be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

Information Management

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

Produce timely reports and papers, updating databases on benefits/outcomes of services, using relevant appropriate IT packages where required including excel, project management tools. This should be carried out to agreed criteria and plans developed for correcting mitigating circumstances if targets not achieved.