About this role
Job summary
Make a tangible impact on patient care at the frontline of medicines optimisation.
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be a key member of the multidisciplinary ward team, delivering a highquality, patientcentred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients. Working proactively with ward clinicians, Practice Pharmacy teams, GPs, and carers, you will help ensure the safe, effective, and costeffective use of medicines.
Using your clinical expertise, you will support prescribing decisions, optimise treatment outcomes, and improve medicines safety, contributing to seamless care across the patient pathway.
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist who values collaboration, wants to add real value to patient care, and influence highquality wardbased clinical practice.
Location and Working Pattern
Base - Marlborough
Hours - Parttime, 18.75 hours per week
This role offers flexibility while allowing you to make a meaningful contribution to patient care.
About Marlborough
Marlborough is a historic market town in the heart of Wiltshire, known for its welcoming community and attractive surroundings. Close to the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it offers countryside access alongside good transport links, local shops, cafes, and amenitiessupporting a relaxed yet wellconnected lifestyle.
Main duties of the job
Deliver comprehensive clinical medication reviews for inpatients, optimising treatment and improving patient outcomes. Provide expert prescribing, therapeutics, and medicinesrelated advice to clinical and nonclinical 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 costconscious 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 medicinesrelated 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 highquality, patientfacing 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 wardbased staff.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as 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 simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description Job responsibilities
As a Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7) you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£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, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post traumasupport, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 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 where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisationcommittedto the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Person Specification
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Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Marlborough
Wiltshire
SN8 1AA
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)