Clinical Pharmacist

In this role you support the EHICH team to optimise medicines for care home residents, working with MDTs to ensure safe and effective medication use. You will lead on medicines optimisation, reviews, and antibiotic stewardship while coordinating with GP practices and pharmacy colleagues. The position offers clinical autonomy as an independent prescriber or through training, with a focus on frailty and multimorbidity. You will help reduce GP workload and improve patient outcomes in care homes.

• free counselling services
• protected time for professional development
• access to high-quality training and development
• free tea, coffee and beverages
• wellbeing and staff support
• flexible working options

• Be an independent prescriber or complete training to become one
• Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring
• Undertake clinical medication reviews for complex polypharmacy
• Focus on care home residents with frailty, COPD/asthma, and learning disabilities
• Provide specialist medicines expertise addressing public health and social care needs
• Lead on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, including antibiotic stewardship
• Contribute to QOF and enhanced services
• Use structured medication reviews to promote optimal adherence and self-care
• Advise on new services with medicinal components and treatment pathways
• Ensure CQC compliance where medicines are involved for care home patients
• Develop relationships with pharmacy professionals across Primary Care and wider system
• Lead clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with pharmacists and anticoagulation services
• Provide CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway training or equivalent
• Provide Clinical Supervision for Pharmacy Technicians
• Assist with care home medication requests and covert administration guidance
• Healthcare aims include improving outcomes, safety, efficiency, and reducing costs

• Proven ability to recognise and manage risk
• Ability to work flexibly with changing priorities
• Strong problem solver
• Experience with common acute and long-term conditions
• Knowledge of structured medication reviews
• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office)
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Independent workload management and ability to work autonomously
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities
• UK professional registration as Pharmacist
• Completed or willing to commit to CPPE pathway or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years pharmacist experience (Desirable)

• Strong problem-solving
• Adaptability
• Influencing and negotiation
• Structured Medication Reviews
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Medicines optimisation