Pharmacist

Closing date: 21 November 2026
Salary: £46,148 a year
Hours: Full time 37.5 hrs per week
Location: 32 Clifton, York

Job summary
Clinical Pharmacist

Main duties of the job

• Manage and promote the repeat dispensing service
• Repeat prescription reauthorisation and acute prescription requests
• Medication related queries from patients and staff
• Increase safety mechanisms such as clinical audits
• Implement MHRA drug withdrawals and alerts
• Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcome from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicine related issues
• Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines
• Work within the Group to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as frail elderly, substance misuse and patients on high risk medicines
• Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice
• Run and oversee the YMG Anticoagulation service using the surgery's protocol
• Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population eg where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
• Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines
• To attend and contribute to meetings as requested

About us
York Medical Group (a large, inner-city practice serving a population of approximately 45,000 patients) is looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Pharmacist with a passion for service development, planning for the future and improving the quality of patient care. The successful candidate will join our diversified team of pharmacists, pharmacist prescribers, pharmacy technicians and prescription clerks as well as having the opportunity for multi-disciplinary working with other departments within the practice.

The pharmacy team drive the focus on reducing some of the burdens placed on the GPs by promoting the electronic repeat dispensing service, reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through medication reviews, working with the complex care team to review care home patients, increasing safety mechanisms through audits, implementing drug withdrawals and alerts, and contributing to reductions in medication related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcome from their medicines.

In addition to the day-to-day duties, the successful candidate will be trained to oversee the anticoagulation service and will also be encouraged to develop in another clinical area of interest. They will also be expected to be proactive, flexible, possess good time management skills and be able to prioritise workload.

Additional duties

• To keep up to date with changes within own area of expertise and ensure appropriate personal development
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Contributing to achievement of QoF and locally commissioned QI/ cost effective schemes
• Support pharmacy technicians and prescription clerks
• Supporting care homes
• Work with wider team to ensure practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved

Person specification

• Must be a UK resident registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Disclosure and Barring Service check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact: Jordan Ibbetson, hnyicb-voy.ymghr@nhs.net

This job description is not exhaustive and may be adjusted periodically after review and consultation. You will also be expected to carry out any reasonable duties which may be requested from time-to-time.