NhsJobs Buckingham

Job Responsibilities

Patient-Facing Clinical Care

Provide clinical pharmacy services to patients with single or multiple long-term conditions where medicines optimisation is required (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, heart failure).

Manage patients with complex polypharmacy, frailty, and high-risk medicine regimens.

Undertake structured clinical medication reviews (SMRs) to improve safety, effectiveness, and adherence.

Optimise ongoing medication plans in line with clinical guidelines, best practice, and patient preferences.

Make prescribing decisions within scope of practice or provide recommendations to GPs and other clinicians where appropriate.

Provide patient education and support to promote shared decision-making and self-management.

Provide clinical pharmacy support to patients in care homes, including structured medication reviews for frail older people and those with complex needs.

Work collaboratively with care home staff, GPs, and community teams to optimise medicines, reduce polypharmacy, and minimise medicines-related harm.

Medicines Optimisation & Safety

Contribute to medicines optimisation initiatives across the practice.

Support safe prescribing by identifying and addressing medicines-related risks.

Contribute to the implementation of national and local safety alerts, guidance, and best practice.

Participate in antimicrobial stewardship and other prescribing quality initiatives in line with agreed team roles.

Support review of medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions.

Support achievement of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicators through medicines optimisation, structured reviews, and appropriate monitoring.

Identify patients requiring intervention to meet QOF and other quality framework requirements, including long-term condition management and medicines safety indicators.

Care Transitions & High-Risk Patients

Support medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, intermediate care, care home admission, and transfers between care settings.

Help ensure continuity of medicines supply for vulnerable, frail, and high-risk patients.

Contribute to identification and proactive management of patient cohorts at increased risk of harm from medicines.

Support medicines optimisation initiatives within care homes, including falls prevention, anticholinergic burden reduction, and end-of-life care planning.

Repeat Prescribing & Prescribing Systems

Support safe and effective repeat prescribing processes.

Review medicines reaching review dates and ensure appropriate monitoring is in place.

Contribute to development and maintenance of prescribing policies and formularies.

Work within shared care protocols and local prescribing guidance.

Multidisciplinary Working & Service Development

Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

Develop effective working relationships with community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and wider health and social care teams.

Contribute pharmaceutical expertise to service development, pathway redesign, and quality improvement initiatives.

Support delivery of PCN priorities, enhanced services, and quality frameworks including QOF and local incentive schemes.

Work with the multidisciplinary team to improve prescribing quality, monitoring, and outcomes aligned with national and local priorities.

Contribute to audits and quality improvement activity linked to QOF performance and prescribing indicators.

Education, Training & Information

Provide medicines-related advice and support to practice staff and patients.

Contribute to education and training on medicines optimisation and therapeutics.

Support dissemination of key prescribing messages and updates.

Quality, Governance & Professional Responsibilities

Contribute to prescribing audits and quality improvement activity.

Support compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality clinical records and documentation.

Adhere to professional standards, practice policies, and relevant legislation.

Maintain patient confidentiality in line with data protection and Caldicott principles.

Participate in appraisal, CPD, and service development.

General responsibilities for all staff The post holder is expected to;

Adhere to practice policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies.

Attend mandatory training as identified by the practice

Highlight potential development areas.

Confidentiality: The post holder must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients staff and practice business in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Caldecott principles.

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety: Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health Safety at work Act (1974), to ensure that the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.

All staff have a responsibility to report all clinical and non-clinical accidents, incidents or near-misses promptly and when requested to co-operate with any investigations under-taken.

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

Reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity: The practice has adopted an equal opportunities policy and all employees must be aware of their obligations to abide by the spirit and nature of the policy to avoid direct and indirect discrimination.

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

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What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in Buckingham?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at The Swan Practice is Negotiable (per hour). Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Buckingham varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Buckingham?

PharmSee is currently tracking 2 active pharmacy vacancies in Buckingham across 11 major UK chains and NHS sources. Browse every open Buckingham pharmacy role on PharmSee's jobs search.

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