Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare partnership in Lincoln is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join their team. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage complex care patients and undertake clinical medication reviews. The ideal candidate will have a Master's in Pharmacy, be a registered Independent Prescriber, and possess at least 2 years of post-qualification experience. This is a full-time, fixed-term role for 18 months with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Independent Prescriber qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Support complex patient care.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews.
• Work with care home staff to improve medication safety.
• Manage repeat prescription process.

Skills

Clinical medication reviews

Chronic disease management

Patient-facing support

Collaboration with healthcare teams

Education

Masters Degree in MPharm

Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

Patient management systems

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the Primary Care Network (PCN) in a patient-facing role.

Join our group of healthcare professionals working in collaboration with many sectors, to provide specialised / proactive/ support and coordination for individuals with complex health and psycho-social care needs in the heart of Lincoln. Covering two practices, Brayford Medical Practice and Heart of Lincoln Medical Group, this is an exciting opportunity to work with a high intensity group of people to improve health inequalities and outcomes for all!

Main duties of the job

Core responsibilities of the Complex Community Care Lead Practitioner within our sites. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels:

They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the PCN and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, as well as provide primary support to practices within the PCN, with regards to prescription and medication queries.

They will help support the repeat prescription system, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients of the PCN practices.

They will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Ensure that the practices, via the PCN, integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be a nonmedical prescriber.

About us

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership (LHP) PCN is made up of two practices (Brayford Medical Practice and Heart of Lincoln Medical Group) based in central Lincoln with a patient population of just under 40,000 people.

Details Date posted

01 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0720-25-0018

Job locations

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN

Lincoln

LN6 3QX

Job description Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist within the PCN. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Support complex care patient cohort.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Provide patient facing clinics and telephone support for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy. Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common and minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.

Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Clinical Director, feedback the results and implement changes.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist the PCN in seeing and maintaining a formulary that is hosted on the computer system.

Auditing the PCNs compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the PCN and their role to patient care

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and

sustain such relationships

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital

pharmacy teams

Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

o Locality or GP prescribing lead

o Locality managers

o Community nurses and other allied health professionals

o Community and hospital pharmacy teams

o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

Job description Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist within the PCN. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Support complex care patient cohort.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Provide patient facing clinics and telephone support for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy. Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common and minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.

Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Clinical Director, feedback the results and implement changes.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist the PCN in seeing and maintaining a formulary that is hosted on the computer system.

Auditing the PCNs compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the PCN and their role to patient care

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and

sustain such relationships

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital

pharmacy teams

Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

o Locality or GP prescribing lead

o Locality managers

o Community nurses and other allied health professionals

o Community and hospital pharmacy teams

o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters Degree in MPharm or equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber.

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience.

Experience Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• 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.

Desirable

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters Degree in MPharm or equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber.

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience.

Experience Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• 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.

Desirable

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Heart of Lincoln Medical Group (HLMG)

Address

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN

Lincoln

LN6 3QX

Employer's website

https://newarkroadsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Heart of Lincoln Medical Group (HLMG)

Address

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN

Lincoln

LN6 3QX

Employer's website

https://newarkroadsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)