PCN Clinical Pharmacist- Shoreditch Park & City PCN

PCN Clinical Pharmacist - Shoreditch Park & City PCN

The closing date is 21 September 2025

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of a passionate multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role, taking responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and collaborating with other healthcare professionals across the PCN.
• Join a core Pharmacy Team and be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist supervisor, GP and other support staff, with regular development sessions, teaching, training and opportunities to upskill.
• Work against a personalised development pathway; the PCN supports Pharmacists interested in becoming independent prescribers.
• Support delivery of the network contract Direct Enhanced Service (DES) specifications.
• Commit to improving health and putting patients first; build effective relationships with patients, GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, hospital and practice staff, and work effectively as part of a team.
• Demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas (including long-term conditions) with a good understanding of general practice.

About us

Groups of GP Practices in City and Hackney have recently come together to form 8 Primary Care Networks (PCNs), each covering a total population of between 30,000-56,000. The PCNs enable GP practices to collaborate and deliver network-based services that respond to local needs.

Job responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using medicines knowledge in specific disease areas.
• Be a prescriber, or training to become a prescriber, and work with the general practice team.
• Be responsible for care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage complex polypharmacy (elderly, care home residents, multiple comorbidities, frailty, COPD, asthma, learning disabilities or autism under relevant programmes).
• Provide specialist expertise in medicines to address public health and social care needs and tackle inequalities.
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation, conservation of antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance, quality improvement, and contribute to the QOF and enhanced services.
• Conduct structured medication reviews to support adherence, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• Lead on integration of general practice with wider healthcare teams (community and hospital pharmacy) to improve outcomes and access, and help manage workload.
• Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• Play a central role in shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

Key aspects of PCN Pharmacist role

• Patient facing role undertaking face-to-face medicines reviews
• Review patients with complex polypharmacy and long-term conditions
• Review housebound patients and priority disease areas within the PCN
• Assess ongoing need for each medicine, monitoring requirements and optimise safety and clinical benefit
• Discuss recommendations and outcomes with the PCN team and provide timely follow-up
• Support patients with written information and liaise with community pharmacists to aid adherence

Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments

• Support practices in improving patient access for minor ailments and acute presentations
• Promote self-care and signpost to community pharmacies as appropriate

Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients

• Handle medicine-related enquiries from practice teams, PCN, community pharmacists and patients
• Update practice teams on current medicines information at weekly meetings
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight prescribing issues
• Communicate actions from medication and device safety alerts
• Reconcile medicines after hospital discharge and adjust as needed in collaboration with patients and community pharmacists

Commissioned improvements for QIPP and medicines optimisation

• Support the practice and PCN in delivering medicines-related outcomes in the Clinical Commissioning Contract

Signposting

• Ensure patients are referred to appropriate professionals for specialist referral, monitoring and social prescribing as required

Repeat Prescribing

• Review, implement and support adherence to the practice repeat prescribing policy
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests and monitoring medicines due for review
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and assessments for patients on repeat prescriptions

Clinical Governance

• Communicate and support MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, guidelines and formulary recommendations
• Undertake clinical audits and feedback results to practices and the PCN
• Assist in reporting medicines incidents to NRLS and implement system improvements
• Support shared care protocols, including monitoring high-risk drugs
• Review medicines linked to unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions
• Identify high-risk patient cohorts via targeted searches (e.g., PINCER) and ensure CQC standards are met

Education and Training

• Contribute to education and training on medicines optimisation for PCN and wider geography

Public Health

• Support public health campaigns and provide specialist advice on public health programmes

General

• Undertake other medicines optimisation work in GP practices and PCN as agreed

Key Collaborative Working Relationships

• Engage with Patients, PPGs, GPs, nurses and practice staff
• Collaborate with CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams, dietitians
• Coordinate with Locality prescribing leads and managers, community nurses and other allied health professionals
• Work effectively as a PCN team member and collaborate with network resources

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience with breadth of common acute and long-term conditions in general practice
• Minimum of 2 years postgraduate pharmacy experience
• Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards/intent to complete)
• Understanding of the role of a clinical pharmacist in primary care and integration with the practice and PCN teams
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and codes of conduct

Health and Safety / Risk Management

Commitment to a safe and healthy environment; mandatory health and safety training and role-relevant development

Equality and Diversity

Co-operate with equality policies and mandatory training; respect patient confidentiality at all times

Notes

The job description is dynamic and may be reviewed and amended as necessary in consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience

Qualifications

• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Disclosure and Barring Service

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act; a DBS disclosure is required.

City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC