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Job summary

Main area
Registered Pharmacist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (End June 2027)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
828-PROVIDE4319
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type
NHS
Site
Provide HQ
Town
Colchester
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/10/2026 23:59

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Community Health Specialist Pharmacist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

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. 

Person specification

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence in Application
  • Minimum 3 years experience with significant Community Health Services experience
  • Experience of working on wards
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership qualification
  • Evidence of working across systems
  • Experience in governance and risk management for medicines

Governance and Risk management

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of medicines safety and review

Presentatio Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of presentation skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Positive about disabled peopleAge positiveMINTDisability confident employerEssex Family Friendly EmployersCare Leaver CovenantArmed Forces CovenantQNI

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nisha Desai
Job title
Director Quality, Pharmacy and AHP
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07580911601
Additional information

Jagdeep Sira

Lead Pharmacist

07580 912249 

[email protected]

 

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