Job summary
Join and lead our well established and highly skilled practice employed pharmacist team. This is a permanent post, working solely for Air Balloon Surgery, and funded through the FABB PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. The post has become vacant as the existing post holder is leaving to focus on a new venture outside General Practice.

We have a long tradition of employing our own Practice Clinical Pharmacist, being one of the first in Bristol to do so. We fully recognise the value and important role this brings to the wider team. The pharmacy teams work is well established into practice pathways and working arrangements.

The role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is well embedded as a senior clinical role within the wider practice clinical team. Leading our existing Pharmacy team, the role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years post graduate experience, be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, and will have completed the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.

The post would be worked as full time - 37.5 hours per week over five days.

Competitive salary, negotiable depending on experience and skillset. Includes NHS Pension Scheme. One week study leave, 5.6 weeks pro rata annual leave per year plus any bank holidays, and day off on day of your birthday if it falls on a day you work.

Main duties of the job

• Leadership of the Practice Pharmacy Team - ensuring the team delivers a comprehensive high-quality service to the patients and staff of the practice
• Patient facing roles seeing patients and managing medication related problems and queries. Medication reviews at point of care transfer, especially for older frail, care homes and polypharmacy
• Staff facing roles - providing support to general practice staff in relation to repeat prescriptions and medication queries
• Quality, governance and improvement - working with the prescribing and wider practice team on safety and medicines optimisation. Leading on initiatives, medicines audit work and local projects and schemes of work

The team manage a complex and varied program of working across all aspects of medicines management. This includes day to day and more developmental and strategic work. The post holder would lead this work along with quality improvement, audit and development of services. We work closely with the ICB Clinical Pharmacist.

Regular clinical supervision with a GP partner with opportunities to grow and develop professionally.

About us
We are supportive, friendly and innovative and value team players with a can do attitude to join our close-knit team. We have an excellent track record for supporting the development of individuals in specialist posts.

4 Partners and 6 Associate (salaried) GPs
Home Visits done by Frail Care Physiotherapist
Extensively skilled nursing team, including Urgent Care Nurses and nurse prescribers
Two clinical practice pharmacists including prescribing and pharmacy technician
Extremely supportive and highly-trained Care Navigator team.
CPD well supported in-house and with external training
Modern, spacious, purpose built premises
GP Training practice
Fresh fruit, tea and coffee provided
We are a registered Park-Run Practice.
Achieved overall good CQC rating

Closing date: 18 November 2026
Salary: £56,186 to £62,023 a year Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: A0104-26-0008

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Essential: Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Essential: Independent prescriber
• Desirable: A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Desirable: Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience

Experience

• Essential: Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience
• Essential: In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare
• Essential: Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Essential: Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Desirable: Previous line management experience

Skills & Knowledge

• Essential: An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• Essential: An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Essential: Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Essential: Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Essential: Good IT skills
• Essential: Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Essential: Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Desirable: Specialist knowledge in a clinical area such as heart failure, diabetes etc.
• Desirable: Familiar with EMIS

Personal qualities and attributes

• Essential: Ability to motivate others
• Essential: Is able to manage multiple and complex numerous workstreams across a team
• Essential: Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Essential: Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Essential: Adaptable, self-motivating and hard working
• Essential: Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Essential: Produce timely and informative reports
• Essential: Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Essential: Is able to bring qualities of innovative thinking, enthusiasm and commitment to the post

Other

• Essential: Enhanced level Disclosure and Barring Service clearance

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website. Apply through our website.