Clinical pharmacist (band 7) - swindon

Job Introduction

Make a tangible impact on patient care at the frontline of medicines optimisation. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary ward team, delivering a high-quality, patient‑centred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients. Working collaboratively with ward clinicians, practice pharmacy teams, GPs, and carers, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines.

You will apply your clinical expertise to support evidence-based prescribing decisions, optimise treatment outcomes, and enhance medicines safety. In addition, you will contribute to seamless patient care across the wider healthcare pathway, supporting continuity and improving overall patient experience. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, make a meaningful impact on patient care, and help drive high standards of clinical practice within the ward setting.

Working Hours & Location

This role is based at Swindon Intermediate Care Centre, a modern healthcare facility providing high‑quality intermediate and inpatient care. The post is contracted at 18.75 hours per week, offering a flexible opportunity to deliver meaningful clinical impact within a supportive care environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive clinical medication reviews for inpatients, optimising treatment and improving patient outcomes.
• Provide expert prescribing, therapeutics, and medicines‑related advice to clinical and non‑clinical colleagues, including doctors, nurses, nursing associates, pharmacy technicians, and wider health and social care professionals.
• Lead on medicines optimisation, supporting patients to gain the maximum benefit from their medicines.
• Actively promote the safe, effective, and cost‑conscious use of medicines in line with best practice and local formulary guidance.
• Identify and address unmet pharmaceutical needs, ensuring high standards of medicines safety and governance.
• Undertake deprescribing activities, reducing unnecessary medicines and minimising pharmaceutical waste.
• Provide professional leadership on the ward for medicines‑related matters, including risk management, clinical governance, formulary compliance, service development, and expenditure awareness.
• Support safe and timely patient discharge through effective medicines reconciliation and coordination with the wider care team.
• Deliver high‑quality, patient‑facing care, engaging directly with patients and carers to support understanding and adherence.
• Contribute to the development of the workforce by providing education and training on medicines optimisation to ward‑based staff.

Package Description

• £49,387 – £56,515 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, providing access to discounts, cashback, and voucher offers.
• Access to wages as you earn them.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing, including post‑trauma support, legal, debt, and life management assistance.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture encouraging ideas that help deliver our purpose of transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• Working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, delivering and transforming adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services, and adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We are a Disability Confident company and work to provide facilities, adjustments and solutions to be inclusive of everyone.

Safeguarding and protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults is of utmost importance. We have policies and procedures to promote safeguarding, and all staff are required to complete a safer recruitment process, including criminal record checks.

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