Clinical Primary Care Pharmacist - LIMOS

Overview

In this role you will provide specialist medicines management for older adults across hospital, interface, and community settings as part of LIMOS. You will perform patient-centered reviews to optimise polypharmacy, support adherence, and reduce medicines-related harm. You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team to shape community-based medicines pathways and improve safety and efficiency. This is a mission-driven role with impact on patient outcomes and service development.

Pay / Benefits

• HCAS
• permanent contract
• full-time
• Band 7 salary (£49,387–£56,515)
• Agenda for Change
• UK NHS employment terms

Responsibilities

• Conduct medicine management reviews for patients with multi-morbidity and high-risk medications in interface and community settings
• Deliver quality improvement and support primary care prescribing workstreams
• Participate in clinical audit and outcome data collection
• Promote safe repeat prescribing and reduce waste with general practice and community pharmacy colleagues
• Provide expert medicines optimisation leadership within the community setting
• Support adherence, de-prescribing where appropriate, and reduce medicines-related admissions
• Deliver medicines management training to patients, carers, and MDT members
• Contribute to protocols to improve medication ordering and supply safety in the community setting
• Promote the pharmacist role in the community and drive service development across primary care

Key requirements

• B. Pharm / M. Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) and GPhC registration
• Minimum 2 years post-registration hospital/acute NHS experience
• Experience in clinical pharmacy across multiple specialties and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience supervising others and coordinating clinical audit
• Experience in GP practice or community pharmacy settings (desirable)
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
• Proficiency with IT and clinical systems (EMIS is mentioned)
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Postgraduate Certificate in General Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent) (essential)
• UK Registration with professional standards in place

• flexible and adaptable
• strong communication and negotiation
• self-motivation and the ability to motivate others
• medicines optimisation
• clinical audit and data collection
• de-prescribing and adherence support

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