Clinical Pharmacist ARC Primary Care Network

The Pcn; Knotty Green; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway

Clinical supervision

Protected learning time

Multidisciplinary team support

Job summary

Arc Bucks Primary Care Network is seeking a Registered Pharmacist to join our expanding in-house pharmacy team, delivering patient-facing care, medicines optimisation, and clinical support across our four GP practices.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, using EMIS, to improve patient outcomes and ensure safe, evidence-based prescribing in primary care.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with the GPhC.
• Independent Prescriber qualification, or willingness to undertake training.
• Experience working within primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and commitment to evidence-based prescribing.
• Strong communication and consultation skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience using EMIS GP Clinical System.

Responsibilities

• Deliver structured medication reviews for patients with complex needs and polypharmacy.
• Manage long-term condition clinics including asthma, COPD, hypertension and other chronic diseases.
• Facilitate group consultations with clinical expertise around medication use in chronic diseases.
• Undertake medicines optimisation reviews for care home residents and housebound patients.
• Support proactive care planning and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Provide expert medicines advice to patients, carers and colleagues.
• Medicines optimisation to improve prescribing quality, safety and cost-effectiveness.

Skills

GPhC Registered

Independent Prescriber

Primary care experience

Communication skills

Tools

EMIS GP Clinical System

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Facing Clinical Care Deliver structured medication reviews for patients with complex needs and polypharmacy.
• Manage long-term condition clinics including asthma, COPD, hypertension and other chronic diseases.
• Facilitate group consultations providing clinical expertise around medication use in chronic diseases.
• Undertake medicines optimisation reviews for care home residents and housebound patients.
• Support proactive care planning and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Provide expert medicines advice to patients, carers and colleagues.
• Medicines Optimisation Improve prescribing quality, safety and cost-effectiveness across the PCN.
• Identify patients at risk from medicines through clinical searches and population health tools.
• Support medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge.
• Implement MHRA safety alerts and national prescribing guidance.
• Reduce medicines waste and improve adherence through patient-centred consultations.

Quality Improvement

• Participate in prescribing audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support delivery of QOF, IIF and other contractual priorities.
• Contribute to development of pharmacy-led services.
• Help standardise medicines management processes across practices.

Working Together

• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Build strong relationships with community pharmacies, secondary care and system partners.
• Contribute to education and medicines optimisation training within practices.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning.

What Were Looking For

• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.
• Independent Prescriber qualification, or willingness to undertake training.
• Experience working within primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and commitment to evidence-based prescribing.
• Strong communication and consultation skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience using EMIS GP Clinical System.

Desirable Experience

• Experience undertaking Structured Medication Reviews.
• Experience working within Primary Care Networks or General Practice.
• Long term condition management experience.
• Clinical audit and quality improvement experience.
• Teaching or mentoring experience.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to help shape a new, expanding in-house pharmacy service.
• Support in completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.
• A supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team.
• Protected time for learning and professional development.
• Clinical supervision and peer support.
• A varied role combining patient care, service development and quality improvement.
• The opportunity to make a genuine difference to patient outcomes across the PCN.

About Arc Bucks PCN

Arc Bucks Primary Care Network serves around 50,000 patients across four GP practices in South Buckinghamshire. We are committed to delivering innovative, high-quality primary care through collaboration, continuous improvement and making the very best use of our multidisciplinary workforce. Our vision is to build an outstanding pharmacy service where pharmacists and pharmacy technicians work at the top of their professional competence, improving patient outcomes while supporting sustainable general practice.