About this role
Job summary
The G DOC Locality Pharmacy Lead delivers safe and effective clinical leadership to the pharmacy team across the Forest of Dean Locality. The role provides a key link into clinical and operational leadership within G DOC, bringing pharmacy expertise and a collaborative approach. The role will proactively lead the pharmacy team to ensure delivery of a service that is fit for the future and adaptable, and supporting readiness for neighbourhood health working.
Working with clinical and operation leadership the postholder will drive quality improvement, safety, sustainability, performance and governance across the pharmacy and wider clinical teams.
Hours: Flexible - Ideally 24 Hours a week
Salary: £70,000 WTE
Main Location: Dean Medical Practice - Coleford. With travel to all Forest of Dean practice sites.
Main duties of the job
The post holder leads on long-term condition management, complex polypharmacy, and promotes health equity by ensuring timely access to medicines expertise. They support GP practices within the locality, work as part of a multidisciplinary team across sites, and ensure provision of clinical support to care homes.
The role has oversight of medicines optimisation and management, including reporting, responding to safety alerts, and supporting digital systems such as SystmOne, Ardens and AI tools. It contributes to clinical governance by supporting investigations, quality improvement, and escalation of risks.
In addition, the role includes clinical line management, appraisals, and workforce development of the Senior Pharmacists, ensuring alignment with organisational values. It also leads on supervision, education, and training, ensuring appropriate support and development for pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary staff, while acting as a role model and mentor.
About us
G DOC LTD is a unique, GP-owned organisation all GP surgeries in Gloucestershire are our shareholders. We operate with a not-for-profit ethos, ensuring every decision and service is focused on improving patient outcomes and reinvesting in local Primary Care across the county.
We directly manage several GP surgeries in Gloucester and the Forest of Dean, providing patient-centred care to more than 50,000 patients. We value continuity of care and practice teams are at the heart of all we do. In addition to our surgeries, we deliver a range of countywide commissioned services designed to improve access, increase capacity, or provide specialist support. Our teams are committed to delivering sustainable, high-quality primary care while fostering innovation and collaboration across the local health system.
By joining us, you'll be part of an organisation that puts people first supporting staff wellbeing, professional development, and a collaborative culture. You'll benefit from the stability, support, and career opportunities of a larger organisation, while still working in close-knit, community-focused teams.
Job description Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership & Delivery
Provide Clinical Leadership to the pharmacy teams across the locality within G DOC, including clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, dispensing teams and prescription clerks as applicable.
Support clinical leadership across G DOC, linking into appropriate clinical and operational leadership structures within G DOC.
Support implementation and delivery of Neighbourhood Health working as applicable to the Pharmacy teams, working closely with the G DOC Clinical Director, Head of Clinical Governance and Operational Leadership. This may include supporting, leading and/or facilitating MDT meetings.
Close liaison with G DOC clinical and operational leadership to direct pharmacy team working and integration across G DOC.
Act as a link to the PCN within the locality on medicine management and optimisation.
Lead on implementing national, regional and local contract changes and guidance as applicable to the pharmacy teams, supporting organisational resilience and proactive solutions.
Support wider organisational resilience as relevant to the pharmacy teams across G DOC as appropriate, which may include some working in and with other locality areas.
Lead and co-ordinate on long term condition management as applicable to the pharmacy teams, working collaboratively with clinical teams across the organisation.
Champion health equity for the populations we serve, seeking to improve health outcomes and efficiency of the practice team by ensuring direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise.
Proactively lead the management of people with complex polypharmacy.
To support and work with G DOC GP practices within the locality. In this role the Locality Pharmacy Lead will be supported by the relevant locality GP Leads, G DOC Clinical Director and Head of Clinical Governance and work as part of a multidisciplinary team. They will work autonomously and travel between surgeries to ensure that the population of the locality has equitable access to their service.
They will provide clinical support to care homes within the PCN and/or ensure this is in place.
Medicines Management and Optimisation
Oversight of medicines optimisation management within the locality and centrally within G DOC, linking in as appropriate to other system partners.
Contribute and prepare reports or reporting frameworks as appropriate to the role.
Proactively identify and address medicine matters, safety alerts and other issues as relevant to safe and effective medicines management.
Support digital elements of medicines management across the locality, liaising as necessary. Areas may include SystmOne, Ardens, Radar and digital AI tools.
Clinical Governance and assurance
Assist with investigation, reporting and actions resulting from Patient Safety Incidents (Significant Event Analysis) and alerts as applicable to the pharmacy teams and/or medicine management.
Oversight for quality, improvement, clinical governance and transformation as applicable to the pharmacy teams in the locality, working closely with G DOC clinical and operational leadership structures.
Escalate matters as appropriate to the G DOC Clinical Director and/or Head of Clinical Governance.
Management
Provide clinical line management to senior members of the pharmacy team, liaising with operational line managers and GP leads as appropriate.
Provision of appraisals for the clinical pharmacists in the locality.
Guide workforce planning and development within the locality pharmacy teams.
Ensure understanding and application of the organisational vision, mission and values.
Supervision and mentoring
Ensure that adequate arrangements are in place to supervise pharmacy roles within the locality. Also support supervision arrangements for other members of staff related to medicines management, including nursing teams, GP trainees, GP Assistants, admin staff, Mental Health Practitioners, Care Co-ordinators, Social Prescribers and Allied Health Professionals.
Lead on education and training for the pharmacy teams linking in with the Head of Clinical Governance and OD. Ensure that appropriate induction plans are in place for new starters within the pharmacy teams.
Acting as a role model and mentor to the pharmacy teams, as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
GPhC-registered pharmacist Independent prescribing qualification and completion of CPPE pathway or other equivalent training
Experience Essential
Experience in primary care and/or medicines optimisation Experience of supervision and/or mentoring Leadership experience Strong communication and cultural awareness skills
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 (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name G DOC Ltd
Address G DOC LTD
Dean Medical Practice
Railway Drive
Coleford
Gloucestershire
GL16 8RH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://ghac.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)