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South Warwickshire GP FederationWarwickshire

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South Warwickshire GP Federation Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 10 November 2026

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Job summary

Clinical Pharmacist - Warwickshire East PCN

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Salary: £25,514 - £29,875| £47,840 - £56,017 (FTE - 37.5)

Job type:Part time - 20 hours - Monday to Friday (9:00 - 13:00)

Location: The successful candidate will be required to travel between/or based at Fenny Compton Surgery.Due to the geography and nature of the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.

CPPE pathway trained (desirable) OR willing to undertake the CPPE training and must be prepared to enrol within the first 6 months.

Job summary

Warwickshire East PCN are looking to recruit Clinical Pharmacists who are passionate for delivering a quality service to their patients. The Clinical Pharmacist role supports to improve patients health outcomes and of the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise, including face to face. Clinical Pharmacist proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to be directly responsible for care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
To lead and promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation for specialist area in the wider medicines agenda ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes.
To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery for specialist area in order to ensure a high-quality service and to further develop provision.
To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.

About us

Overview of our organisation

SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.

o 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

o NHS Pension

o Health & Wellbeing support

o Vivup Employee Assistance Programme

o Bike2work Scheme

o Access to the Blue Light card

The Warwickshire East PCNconsists of the following practices.

Southam Surgery - Stowe Drive, Southam CV47 1NY

St Wulfstan Surgery - Northfield Road, Southam CV47 0FG

Harbury Surgery - Mill Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HR

Fenny Compton Surgery - High St, Fenny Compton, Southam CV47 2YG

Kineton Surgery - Old School, Market Square, Kineton CV35 0LP

Details

Date posted

27 October 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,514 to £29,875 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0062-26-0021

Job locations

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

To improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise including face to face. To proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.

Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patients outcomes, reflect the needs of the PCN population and shift workload from other disciplines.

Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approaches acute illness.

Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines.

Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.

Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff

Organize and oversee the PCNS medicines optimisation system including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.

Deliver high quality medication review and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission)

Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance

Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards.

Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities

Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issue

Deliver training, monitoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues

Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.