Job summary
Symphony Healthcare Services is recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to join the West Somerset Primary Care Network (PCN) pharmacy team.

You will ideally be a qualified independent prescriber, but applications are welcome from those working towards this qualification or can be supported in the future.

The post is for up to 37.5 permanent hours per week, and we welcome applications for both full or part-time employment (minimum of 20 hours per week part time). Flexible working and some degree of home working will be considered.

There will be a requirement to participate in the national CPPE training scheme for pharmacists in primary care if not already achieved.

The salary for this position is £46,000 - £58,465 per annum (pro rata for part time hours) and starting salaries will be offered based on previous experience.

You also have the option to join either the NHS or NEST Pension scheme, plus access to many other employee benefits.

Closing date for applications: 27 July 2026.

Main duties of the job
You will be well supported by the Symphony Healthcare Services team of pharmacists and technicians as well as the wider multi-disciplinary team.

You will integrate into practice teams but also have the support of the PCN team (situated in Williton Community Hospital), working alongside our existing pharmacy, social prescribing (Health Coaching and Village Agents) and Living Better complex care teams, including care coordinators, a complex care GP, Nursing team, ACP, physiotherapists, Children and Young Persons team and community HCAs.

We focus on Neighbourhood working, population health and are increasing the use of data and artificial intelligence tools to risk stratify and proactively identify patients who would benefit from proactive care. We host frequent wellbeing/ development days and hold team development at the heart of what we do.

Please read the attached job description and person specification in full before applying.

About us
Established in 2016, Symphony Healthcare Services (Symphony) provides NHS primary care provision across 21 sites within Somerset, linked to 14 general practice contracts. The organisation cares for approximately 132,000 patients and employs around 600 staff.

Symphony is a subsidiary of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and manages its services through the support of a central team (including HR, finance, corporate and operational governance).

Providing NHS services is at the heart of what we do. Specifically, our vision is to be at the forefront of sustainable, high quality general practice, collaborating with our communities to improve experiences and health outcomes. We work closely with our practice teams to grow, enhance, and transform our services for the benefit of patients and staff.

Symphony welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups. When undertaking recruitment and selection for our services, Symphony is committed to equality opportunity for all.

Symphony offers an NHS or NEST Pension, a fantastic range of employee benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (see attached poster), along with flexible working from day of employment and an agile approach to hybrid working (where applicable).

We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

• Provide sessional clinical support to the surgeries within the West Somerset Primary Care Network as a clinical pharmacist, seeing patients and leading on medicines optimisation.
• Support the PCN practices to improve medicines reconciliation on discharge, formulary compliance, repeat prescribing management and medication reviews.
• Support West Somerset PCN and Somerset ICB plans to reduce medicines waste in primary care.
• Interpret and provide complex medicines information to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, rational, effective and economical use of medicines.
• Undertake clinical audit and other outcome measures to support patient care and safety.
• Create and implement medicine related guidelines, policies and SOPs as appropriate to the different service areas.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive information and communication relating to pharmaceutical care of patients.
• Provide prescribing service within sphere of competency to patients in primary care, as a pharmacist independent prescriber.
• To develop, advise, agree and implement action plans at a practice level, monitor the effect of changes made and ensure that any benefits are maintained in the longer term. This will include:
  • Reviewing prescribing data for the practices to highlight areas where there is scope for improving the clinical effectiveness of prescribing.
  • Obtaining agreement with the practices to implement medicines optimisation projects with the overall aim of following national prescribing guidance and cost effective prescribing.
  • Advising GPs and other health professionals on cost effective prescribing and aiding rationalisation of drug choice via formulary/guideline/protocol development.
  • Record clinical activity, interventions, KPIs and to monitor the outcome of interventions.
  • Provide training on medicines on a regular basis to GP surgery staff, patients and carers in all relevant aspects of medicine use.
• To maintain knowledge of developments in pharmacy practice on a regular basis in line with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) CPD requirements
• To fulfil the professional requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good professional Practice of the GPhC
• The post holder will be responsible to the SHS Lead Pharmacist and Primary Care Network Clinical Director, but will be expected to use their own initiative to make complex decisions within defined parameters with little supervision.
• Requirement to participate in the national training scheme for pharmacists in primary care
• Participate in the PCN DES and other objectives and workstreams.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: GPhC registration as a Pharmacist
• Essential: Certificate or MSc/Diploma Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent experience)
• Desirable: Independent prescribing qualification

Experience

• Essential: At least 2 years post-registration pharmacy experience
• Essential: Clinical Pharmacy experience
• Essential: Clinical audit experience
• Essential: Knowledge and understanding of Primary Care
• Desirable: Previously experience of working within integrated healthcare organisations or teams

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Essential: Ability to work alone without direct supervision when required
• Essential: Good time management and organisational skills, ability to prioritise effectively
• Essential: Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
• Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and other healthcare professionals
• Essential: Ability to train other members of staff
• Essential: Ability to use Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook
• Essential: Excellent Communication and influencing skills
• Essential: Professional appearance & demeanour
• Essential: Adaptable to change: flexible in accepting new procedures and policies
• Essential: Ability to demonstrate initiative: proactive and self-motivated
• Essential: Progressive and continuing professional development
• Essential: Enthusiastic
• Essential: Assertive
• Essential: Hold current UK driving licence and be able to drive between practices and care homes with business cover on insurance

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.