Clinical Pharmacist

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The closing date is 19 March 2026

Gateshead Inner West PCN are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join our established team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians for a 12-month period to cover planned leave. Depending on the quality and number of applications, more than one appointment may be made.

This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to work as part of an experienced pharmacy team serving a diverse community of approximately 45,000 across the Inner West of Gateshead.

This is a patient-facing role, although many patient consultations will take place by telephone. While the position will be based at one of our practices, you may be required to work across any of our five practice sites as needed.

Candidates are advised that generating all or a significant part of your application using AI tools may be considered misrepresentation. Applications produced using AI may appear very similar to those submitted by other candidates. If an application appears to have been generated and does not seem genuine, it may not be progressed at any stage of the recruitment process.

Please note, Gateshead Inner West PCN is not approved by the Home Office and is therefore not able to offer candidates support for an application for a Health and Care Visa.

Interviews will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 25th March.

If you would like to find out more about the role, we would be delighted to hear from you and answer any questions you may have.

The postholder will be an integral part of the General Practice team, as well as the wider pharmacist network and multidisciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patients' medicine information into and out of hospitals. They will work to optimise medicines use, improve patient care and safety, and support clinical staff in the management of patients.

The role will help improve patient health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise, including face-to-face consultations with patients.

The postholder will support GP Practice colleagues with prescription and medication queries, including repeat prescriptions, medicines reconciliation following transfers of care, and the development of systems to support safe prescribing. The team delivers structured medication reviews, provides quality improvement advice and guidance, and contributes to aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and enhanced services. The Clinical Pharmacy Team also supports the development of new models of care to deliver person-centred, coordinated patient care.

As part of the role, there will be the opportunity to access and complete NHS England's accredited Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, should you not already hold this qualification.

• a. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• b. Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
• c. Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)
• d. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
• e. Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
• f. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• g. Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload
• h. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
• i. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation
• j. The Clinical Pharmacist will have access to an…