Clinical Pharmacist​/Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary

Are you a pharmacist eager to take on a new challenge that expands your clinical expertise and supports the delivery of outstanding patient care? We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward‑thinking, motivated pharmacist committed to applying their pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to improve patient care in General Practice.

This is a unique opportunity to join our expanding Pharmacy team to serve the population at South Hardwick Primary Care Network. You will be part of a dynamic team, committed to developing the role of a clinical pharmacist in an expanding field of General Practice to its maximum potential to deliver person‑centred, coordinated care across the health system. This post would require you to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient‑facing role, but also to undertake individual clinical decision making around your caseload of patients.

South Hardwick PCN is a group of 8 forward‑thinking and progressive practices (population 69,372) who have developed a friendly effective working relationship with one another. We are committed to working collaboratively to improve outcomes for patients and sustaining General Practice.

South Hardwick is a mix of former mining communities, suburbs, and rural communities to the south of Chesterfield. Your employer would be North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Ltd, and you would be entitled to NHS pension.

We have a well‑established Pharmacy team of six Clinical Pharmacists and seven Pharmacy Technicians.

Date posted: 12 January 2026

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Part‑time, Flexible working

Reference number: B0213‑26‑0000

Job locations:
Clay Cross Medical Centre, Bridge Street, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S45 9NG

£47,810 to £62,682 a year

• Review patients with single or multiple medical problems integrating into existing General practice teams long‑term condition clinics (e.g. Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart disease, Asthma).
• Review medications for these patients assessing ongoing need for each medicine, review monitoring needs and support patients to ensure they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• Undertake clinical medication reviews of specific groups of patients identified as priority, such as medications more likely to cause harm, severe frailty, potentially addictive medications, Atrial Fibrillation anticoagulation reviews, gastroprotection reviews and others identified by the practice as priority.
• Undertake domiciliary medication reviews with house‑bound or care‑home residents, liaising with Community support teams if necessary.
• Provide patients advice with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice (telephone medicines support).
• Answer relevant medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy), suggest and recommend solutions, provide follow‑up for patients to monitor effect of changes.
• 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.
• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for appropriate level of care within an appropriate period (e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long‑term condition reviews etc).
• Provide clinical supervision and support to Pharmacy technicians and Foundation pharmacists within the team.
• Support the repeat prescriptions system in practices, reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a blood test or a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Utilise medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision‑making, identify practice and PCN priorities through data analysis and prioritise patients to review (risk stratification).
• Contribute with pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information…