• Job Description

  Req#: A0443-26-0000?language=en&page=1043&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist for a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. Start Date between May - July 2026.

  We encourage applications from Clinical Pharmacists working in all sectors of pharmacy, with a minimum of 2 years post graduate experience.

  You will be joining a fully established Medicine Management team of 6 Clinical Pharmacists, 2 Pharmacy Technicians and scripts clerks. The post therefore is well supported by peer support, training, mentoring and development opportunities.

  Our whole ethos is team building and wellbeing, where we promote a positive practice culture. By welcoming you to our practices you will be given an extensive induction.

  Pharmacists with or without the non-medical prescribing qualification are welcome to apply.

  The role is for 24 - 37.5 hours per week. We welcome full time and part time applicants.

  Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details.

  If you would like an informal chat regarding the roles, please contact Kathryn Thompson to book a suitable date and time Kathryn.thompson9@nhs.net

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist, who acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop and run processes for repeat prescriptions, reauthorisation management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. The post holder will have a role in managing long-term conditions.

  They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within general practice. They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

  About us

  At Fireclay we nurture an 'ethos' of team building and wellbeing; across the practice, we promote a healthy work life balance, including: social events and flexible hours.

  You will be joining a team who care about their staff and care about providing quality care to their patients. We offer a supportive workplace with mentoring and supervision as standard.

  We offer our team:

  Access to our WhatsApp groups to keep you in the 'know' and socialise; our break rooms offer fresh fruit and snacks.

  Access to the NHS pension

  We are a large team and can therefore accommodate most working patterns. This role can be offered part time with a flexible pattern but can also be scaled up to be a full time position.

  We love working here and we are sure you will too!

  Details

  Date posted

  02 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  A0443-26-0000

  Job locations

  Bellevue Road

  St. George

  Bristol

  BS5 7PH

  
  

  22 Lodgeside Avenue

  Bristol

  BS15 1WW

  
  

  Manor Road

  Fishponds

  Bristol

  BS16 2JD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

  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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

  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.

  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 high-risk patient groups.

  Repeat prescribing

  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 to the GP.

  Telephone and patient facing medicines support

  Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face medicines use reviews (MURs) i.e. advise about medicines and adherence support.

  Medication review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Care home medication reviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP 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 GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Long-term condition clinics

  See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.

  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).

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation

  Public health

  To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu & COVID19 vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes

  Cost saving programmes

  Undertake changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.

  Information Management

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

  Medicines quality improvement

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

  Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

  Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy 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. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

  Medicines safety

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  2. Collaborative Working Relationships

  Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)

  Demonstrates an ability to work as a member of a team

  Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

  Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

  Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

  Liaises with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients

  Including but not limited to

  Patients

  GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, technicians and dieticians

  Locality / GP prescribing lead

  Locality managers

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Community pharmacists and support staff

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  3. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

  NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification

  • Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
  • Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
  • May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
  • May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification

  Has an experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice

  2 years experience of patient consultation

  4. Health and Safety/Risk Management

  • The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
  • The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

  5. Equality and Diversity

  • The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

  6. Respect for Patient Confidentiality

  • The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

  7. Special Working Conditions

  • The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.
  • The post-holder will have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates; urine etc while in clinical practice

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

  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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

  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.

  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 high-risk patient groups.

  Repeat prescribing

  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 to the GP.

  Telephone and patient facing medicines support

  Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face medicines use reviews (MURs) i.e. advise about medicines and adherence support.

  Medication review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Care home medication reviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP 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 GP on prescribing and monitoring.

  Long-term condition clinics

  See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.

  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).

  Care Quality Commission

  Work with the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation

  Public health

  To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu & COVID19 vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes

  Cost saving programmes

  Undertake changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

  Medicine information to practice staff and patients

  Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.

  Information Management

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

  Medicines quality improvement

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

  Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

  Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy 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. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

  Medicines safety

  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

  2. Collaborative Working Relationships

  Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

  Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)

  Demonstrates an ability to work as a member of a team

  Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

  Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

  Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

  Liaises with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients

  Including but not limited to

  Patients

  GP, nurses and other practice staff

  Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, technicians and dieticians

  Locality / GP prescribing lead

  Locality managers

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Community pharmacists and support staff

  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

  3. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

  NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification

  • Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
  • Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership
  • May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
  • May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification

  Has an experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice

  2 years experience of patient consultation

  4. Health and Safety/Risk Management

  • The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
  • The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

  5. Equality and Diversity

  • The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

  6. Respect for Patient Confidentiality

  • The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

  7. Special Working Conditions

  • The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.
  • The post-holder will have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates; urine etc while in clinical practice

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional Registration *Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council *Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Qualifications *Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)

  Desirable

  • *A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society *Clinical diploma *Independent prescriber

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
  • An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
  • Good IT skills.
  • Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
  • Produce timely and informative reports.
  • Work effectively independently and as a team member. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

  Desirable

  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional Registration *Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council *Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Qualifications *Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)

  Desirable

  • *A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society *Clinical diploma *Independent prescriber

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
  • An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
  • Good IT skills.
  • Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
  • Produce timely and informative reports.
  • Work effectively independently and as a team member. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

  Desirable

  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.

  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).

  Additional information

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Fireclay Health

  Address

  Bellevue Road

  St. George

  Bristol

  BS5 7PH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://Fireclayhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Fireclay Health

  Address

  Bellevue Road

  St. George

  Bristol

  BS5 7PH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://Fireclayhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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