Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7) - Marlborough

Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7) - Marlborough

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 high‑quality, patient‑centred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients. Working proactively with ward clinicians, Practice Pharmacy teams, GPs, and carers, you will help ensure the safe, effective, and cost‑effective 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 high‑quality ward‑based clinical practice.

Location and Working Pattern

Base - Marlborough

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 well‑connected lifestyle.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver comprehensive clinical medication reviews for inpatients, optimising treatment and improving patient outcomes.
• Provide expert prescribing, therapeutics, and medicines‑related advice to clinical and non‑clinical 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 cost‑conscious 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 medicines‑related 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 high‑quality, patient‑facing 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 ward‑based staff.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s 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 doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d 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 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 everyday 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 trauma support, 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 you’re 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 organization committed to 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

General Requirements

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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.

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