Clinical Pharmacist

The Clinical Pharmacist will play a key role within our Primary Care Network, supporting high quality, patient centred care across a population of approximately 34,000 patients. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will contribute to the delivery of the Network DES through medicines optimisation, structured medication reviews, and proactive management of long term conditions across the network practices. The role will focus on improving patient outcomes, reducing clinical risk, and supporting preventative care initiatives, including cardiovascular health improvement. This position offers the opportunity to work autonomously while collaborating closely with GPs, nurses, and wider PCN colleagues to enhance the safety, quality, and efficiency of prescribing across the network.

Interviews will take place on the 25th February 2026.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities and duties may include (and may not be limited to):

• Providing specialist medicines management advice to GPs, practice nurses, community pharmacists, community nurses, and other healthcare professionals to support high quality, evidence based, and cost effective prescribing.
• Delivering structured medication reviews.
• Supporting practices in achieving PCN DES/IIF and QIF targets.
• Leading and promoting quality improvements in medicines management across GP practices, ensuring best practice is consistently adopted.
• Working closely with pharmacy technicians to deliver medicines management objectives and enhance workflow efficiency.
• Strengthening pharmaceutical knowledge and understanding across the wider primary care team.
• Undertaking risk assessment and management activities, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation and promoting safe systems of work.
• Liaising with primary and secondary care colleagues to ensure alignment with system wide prescribing strategies and seamless patient care.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of new medicines management initiatives and services within PCN practices.
• Supporting clinical medication review services for care homes and participating in additional PCN workstreams as required.
• Providing and exchanging complex information relating to medicines and medicines management, including clinical information, therapeutics, and prescribing data derived from audits and prescribing activity.
• Communicating effectively with patients, carers and a wide range of healthcare professionals, adapting communication style to meet individual needs, including language or cognitive barriers.
• Persuading and negotiating where necessary to support safe, effective prescribing and medicines management objectives.
• Analyzing and interpreting complex clinical and medicines related information, applying specialist knowledge to inform decision making in a range of situations.
• Delivering highly specialised advice for individual patients and patient groups, including recommendations on drug choice, dosing, side effects and therapeutic alternatives.
• Providing this advice following review of prescriptions, clinical records and prescribing data.
• Ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, national safety alerts and established best practice to minimise risk.
• Contributing to the design, development and implementation of policies, guidelines and service changes that impact across practices, community pharmacies and the wider Medicines Management and practice teams.
• Planning and organising personal workload, including audits and project work/training.
• Supporting and supervising the day to day work of the pharmacy technician(s).
• Promoting best value and minimising waste in relation to medicines, contributing to efforts to reduce fraud and ensuring responsible use of NHS resources.
• Participating in relevant audits to support quality improvement and service development.
• Maintaining professional registration and complying with all relevant professional standards and codes of practice.
• rolling on and completing the CPPE for PCN Clinical Pharmacists (if not already completed).
• Maintaining and developing professional competence, keeping up to date with clinical evidence, therapeutic developments, national policy and local service changes.
• Agreeing objectives, maintaining a personal development plan and participating fully in the appraisal process.
• Attending relevant local, regional and national meetings to support ongoing development and service alignment.
• Undertaking any other duties appropriate to the role and grade, as agreed with the line manager.

About us

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have been created to facilitate delivery of more integrated care. They cover defined geographical areas to enable them to better respond to the needs of local populations and build relationships across wider primary care within natural neighbourhoods. By design they are small enough for relationships to flourish, but large enough to provide a broad scope of services.

You would be based at the following location:

PCN Hub, Fillybrooks Stone ST15 0DJ

Person Specification Experience

• Skills, Knowledge and Experience
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/ag course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Work effectively and independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Self Motivation.
• Adaptable.
• Full Driving Licence.
• Safeguarding adult and children level three.
• Information Governance toolkit completion.
• Immunisation status.
• Basic life support training.

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards).
• Completion of the CPPE Pathway.
• DBS Required.
• Immunisation Status.

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.

£48,672 to £52,962 a year Pay based on experience