Clinical Pharmacist – Community

Main area Pharmacist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (up to 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 372-COM2725

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bowling Mill, Dean Clough Town Halifax Salary £49,387 – £56,515 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/05/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/06/2026

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job‑share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

Job overview

The post holder is responsible for providing a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in their own homes or care homes in the Calderdale and Huddersfield area. This may be as part of the Hospital at Home (H@H), Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) or the wider Community Division. The post holder will be an integral part of the Community Division Pharmacy team and work seamlessly between primary and secondary care and link with a range of health‑care professionals to optimise concordance and compliance with prescribed medication.

For the purpose of this post all patients who are accepted to the Community caseload and are registered with a GP in Calderdale or Huddersfield may be reviewed, they may also be referred directly from CHFT staff or Gateway to Care when concerns about medication that might increase chances of admission or readmission are identified. Patients may be on high‑risk medication or complex regimes.

Main duties of the job

• Review patients in a home setting.
• Review medication and work with Community Teams to ensure patients are able to derive the maximum benefit from medication.
• Participate in MDT.
• Assess compliance with medication which may lead to hospital admission or deterioration in condition.
• Work closely with patients to implement medicines optimisation.
• Liaise with GPs and community pharmacists to ensure that medicines are reconciled following transfer to primary care.
• Communicate with GPs, community pharmacists and hospital consultants recommendations in respect to individual patient medication changes as appropriate to the needs of the patient.
• Provide skilled pharmaceutical counselling to patients to improve concordance and compliance with medicines and to reduce risks from medication‑related events. Promote concepts of self‑care with patients, significant others, and health‑care professionals in respect to medicines and medicines concordance.
• Work in an independent manner to explore all ways of supporting patients with complex medication issues.
• Work in partnership with the patient, to support self‑care.
• Further develop and feedback on key performance indicators.
• Work closely with Hospital at Home teams within CHFT and key personnel in the community in Calderdale and Huddersfield.
• Work with the CHFT Community teams to develop the service and provide training to staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• Review medication in high‑risk patients for clinical appropriateness, drug interactions and assess compliance and concordance issues.
• Provide professional and clinical information and advice to the multidisciplinary health‑care staff in primary and secondary care, patients and carers, to support individual patient care and medicines management.
• Make recommendations tailored to the context of specific patients or situations, including calculations for complex drug regimens.
• Address issues of co‑existing medical diseases and conditions such as renal and hepatic impairment, and concurrent medications.
• Apply sound professional judgement to complex clinical issues and dilemmas, particularly where definitive information is lacking.
• Participate in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit.
• If a prescriber, prescribe within area of competence. Work towards attaining an Independent Prescriber qualification if not a prescriber.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• MPharm or equivalent degree in Pharmacy approved by RPSGB.
• Registered Pharmacist with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Evidence of practical experience of medication review in a hospital or community setting.
• Recent relevant pre‑registration training and experience in hospital.
• Good knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy, Medicines Management and Pharmacy Practice acquired through training and experience.
• Evidence of Pharmacy Practice Research and Clinical Audit.
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate commitment to CPD.
• Able to fulfil all physical requirements of the post with Occupational Health clearance.
• Knowledge of drug budgets.

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Ability to use dispensing systems such as EMIS Web or similar.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self‑motivating and the ability to influence others.
• Must be eligible to work in the UK.
• Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust.
• Driving licence and access to a vehicle for domiciliary visits insured for business use.
• Experience using systems such as Systemone, EMIS, Cerner and Pharmoutcomes.
• Experience of managing staff.

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co‑create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce; we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

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