# Community Health Specialist Pharmacist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Provide CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Provide CIC
- **Location:** Provide HQ
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 6 months (End June 2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T09:01:38.170Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/Provide_CIC/Registered_Pharmacist/Registered_Pharmacist-v8340053
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8340053?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://providecommunity.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacist to join the Pharmacy Team at Provide. This diverse and rewarding role offers the chance to influence patient care across a wide range of community health services, driving high standards of medicines optimisation, patient safety, quality improvement, and clinical governance.

As a Community Health Services Pharmacist, you will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines across community services. You will play a key role in shaping medicines-related pathways, supporting innovative service developments, and providing clinical advice to healthcare professionals.

The role offers a unique opportunity to lead and influence key strategic workstreams, including Non-Medical Prescribing, Sexual Health Services, medicines governance, and patient safety programmes. You will work closely with clinical teams, operational leads, and senior stakeholders to support service transformation and improve outcomes for patients receiving care in community settings.

This position is ideal for a pharmacist who enjoys working autonomously, leading change, and making a tangible impact on patient care while contributing to the continued development of high-quality community healthcare services.

### Main duties of the job

Lead and support medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical processes across Provide services to ensure they are safe, effective, patient-centred, and evidence-based.

Provide expert clinical pharmacy advice to multidisciplinary teams, supporting the safe management and optimisation of medicines for patients receiving community healthcare services.

Lead the pharmaceutical aspects of Sexual Health Services, including oversight of medicines governance, service data review, and statutory reporting requirements.

Act as the professional lead for Non-Medical Prescribing, supporting governance, safe prescribing practice, competency development, and service improvement.

Support the identification, management, and mitigation of medicines-related risks, contributing to organisational assurance and patient safety.

Drive quality improvement initiatives, audits, and service evaluations to enhance medicines use and patient outcomes.

Contribute to the development and redesign of patient pathways, ensuring medicines optimisation is embedded within service delivery models.

Work in partnership with clinical and operational teams to support innovation and service transformation across community healthcare services.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Presentatio Skills

**Essential**

- Evidence of presentation skills

### Skills and knowledge

**Essential**

- Evidence in Application
- Minimum 3 years experience with significant Community Health Services experience
- Experience of working on wards

**Desirable**

- Leadership qualification
- Evidence of working across systems
- Experience in governance and risk management for medicines

### Governance and Risk management

**Essential**

- Evidence of medicines safety and review

## Documents

- [community health service pharmacist (pdf, 241.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664088)

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