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.

• 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 work streams 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.
• Analysing 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 ensure 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.
• Enrolling 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…