Senior Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist at Local Primary Care GP Federation (2025-07 – Present)
Leading and developing the primary care network (PCN) pharmacy team across multiple GP practices, driving high-quality, patient-centred care and consistent clinical standards at scale. Working as a key clinical lead within the multidisciplinary network to deliver expert medicines optimisation and high-level clinical guidance for complex, multi-morbid patient cohorts. Overseeing PCN-wide structured medication reviews (SMRs) and establishing evidence-based prescribing frameworks aligned with national ICB priorities, NICE guidelines, and local formularies.
- Designing, implementing, and monitoring PCN-level clinical audits and quality improvement projects to enhance prescribing safety, cost-effectiveness, and operational consistency across all member practices
- Representing the network at ICB and system-level medicines optimisation forums, ensuring local priorities and PCN targets—including DES, QOF, and enhanced services—are seamlessly integrated into practice workflows
- Managing high-complexity cases and strengthening integration with secondary care and specialist community teams—including mental health, respiratory, diabetes, and heart failure services—to build coordinated, cross-boundary care pathways
- Leading PCN clinical initiatives across key therapeutic areas, such as lipid optimisation, hypertension control, asthma/COPD management, lower-carbon inhaler transitions, and targeted interventions for health inequalities
- Establishing robust PCN-wide clinical protocols, standard operating procedures, and training frameworks to streamline pharmacy workflows and mentor junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Building strong collaborative relationships with PCN clinical directors, practice partners, and external health partners to drive shared learning, foster continuous service enhancement, and represent the pharmacy service across the wider healthcare system
Senior Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Respiratory at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2024-09 – 2026-06)
Responsible for leading and developing the clinical pharmacy service to the respiratory directorate. Leading the team of pharmacist working within the cluster to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines. Promoting evidence-based treatments and ensuring high-quality prescribing, including guideline development, implementation and review.
- Participation in ward rounds, TB clinics, asthma and COPD clinics, discussing patient cases and multidisciplinary work
- Reporting and investigating incidents and errors
- Providing excellent care to patients, clinical practice, supervision, leadership, mentoring and teaching
- Participation in allocating duties and preparation of team rotas
- Line management of pharmacists according to hospital personnel procedures, carrying out performance reviews, and disciplinary matters when required
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2024-02 – 2024-08)
Working under the acute medicine directorate, overseeing emergency care and medical admissions requiring a broad level of knowledge around acute treatment regimes. Supervising and mentoring junior pharmacists, technicians, and pharmacy staff in an inpatient pharmacy setting.
- Conducting training sessions for new starters, ensuring compliance with NHS policies and procedures
- Participation in ward rounds and making evidence-based recommendations
- Direct involvement in patient care, assessments, and managing medication plans
- Providing expert advice to medical teams and educating patients on drug interactions, dosages, and therapeutic regimens
- Development of protocols for drug procurement with cost effectiveness, compounding, and distribution
- Reporting and investigating incidents and errors
- Counselling patients on medication, enhancing adherence and clinical outcomes
Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist at Local Primary Care GP Federation (2023-04 – 2024-08)
Leading my own team within practice to provide excellent patient care. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expert knowledge around medicines and clinical input when reviewing patient treatment care plans.
- Undertaking medication reviews to ensure appropriateness of medications and making recommendations to comply with local and national guidelines or as part of medicines optimisation
- Carrying out audits within practice as part of quality improvement
- Engaging with a wider team of professionals to allow opportunities for feedback and supervised learning
- Liaising with specialist teams (mental health teams, respiratory nurses, diabetic nurses) and other healthcare professionals
- Providing services in line with the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services; heart failure medication reviews, lipid management, hypertension clinics, asthma reviews, COPD reviews, structured medication reviews, lower carbon inhaler switches, and tackling health inequalities
- Implementing practice-based protocols and pathways to aid processes for the practice-based pharmacy team
Clinical Pharmacist - Rotational at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2022-04 – 2024-02)
Working under medical and surgical divisions. Experienced in surgical management, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, gastroenterology, medicines safety, medicines information, geriatric care, intensive care units, maternity, oncology, aseptics, paediatrics and trauma and orthopedics.
- Providing expert medicines advice to medical teams
- Advising on therapeutic drug monitoring and dose adjustments
- Reporting and investigating medication related errors
- Contributing to research initiatives and implementing evidence-based guidelines
- Teaching and sharing learning with pharmacy teams
- Supervising junior pharmacists and technical staff within an in-patient pharmacy setting
Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (2022-01 – 2023-03)
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide knowledge around medicines and clinical input when reviewing patient treatment care plans.
- Undertaking medication reviews to ensure appropriateness of medications and making recommendations to comply with local/national guidelines or as part of medicines optimisation
- Carrying out audits within practice as part of quality improvement
- Engaging with a wider team of professionals to allow opportunities for feedback and supervised learning
- Participating in practice meetings and local practice pharmacist meetings to keep up to date with the latest guidance and recommendations
- Providing enhanced services; heart failure medication reviews, lipid management, hypertension clinics, asthma reviews, COPD reviews, structured medication reviews, lower carbon inhaler switches, and tackling health inequalities
- Implementing practice-based protocols and pathways to aid processes for the practice-based pharmacy team
Lead Pharmacist, Store Manager, Pharmacist at Boots UK (2016-08 – 2022-03)
Ensured accurate dispensing, minimising errors, and adverse effects. By preparing, filling, checking and dispensing medications, contributing positively and impact patient well-being and operations.
- Line management of the pharmacy team, responsible for recruitment and personal development
- Responsible for training pharmacy teams on SOPs, learning, and patient safety
- Leading and representing the business during visits and inspections
- Working with a wider team of managers to improve business performance
- Helping colleagues to achieve goals and improve their skills
- Driving and record keeping of pharmacy services such as medication review, new medicines service, vaccinations, contraception services, and malaria prevention services
- Responsible for cascading area updates by sending out weekly newsletters to all pharmacists within the area
- Proactively seeking opportunities to engage with local commissioners to secure services for patients
- Supervising pharmacy operations to improve profitability by coaching the team on cost control, minimising loss, maximising stock availability
- Carrying out audits and risk assessment to maintain high patient and staff safety
- Honest conversations with the team to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them
- Mentoring and tutoring trainee pharmacists and pharmacy advisors
- Managing staffing levels of the team
- Investigating and reporting dispensing incidents
