Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hatters Health PCN in North West Luton is seeking a passionate, innovative leader to guide a friendly clinical pharmacy team. The post focuses on clinical development, service improvement and high-quality patient care, with emphasis on collaboration across GP practices, community and hospital colleagues.

You will oversee medicines reconciliation, clinical reviews, medicines optimisation and patient-facing clinics, mentor staff, and drive governance, audits and data-led improvements to support

Qualifications

• Masters in Pharmacy and registration with GPhC.
• CPPE completion.
• IP qualification.
• Leadership qualification or experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the PCN pharmacy team and support professional development.
• Provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries, ERD and shared-care arrangements.
• Promote medication safety, respond to alerts and ensure monitoring for high-risk therapies.
• Translate national and local priorities into effective practice.
• Deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients with long-term conditions or complex needs.
• Run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone or in person, including domiciliary visits.
• Lead audits, searches, and quality-improvement work to monitor impact and report progress.
• Collaborate with GPs, nurses, practice managers and other partners to improve pathways and outcomes.
• Support PCN DES, neighbourhood priorities and health equity initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Clinical pharmacy

Team development

Collaboration

Education

MPharm

GPhC registration

CPPE

IP qualification

Leadership qualification

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Hatters Health PCN is looking for a passionate and innovative leader for our friendly, dynamic clinical pharmacy team. The appropriate candidate will have the ambition and commitment to provide high quality care to patients, and a passion for clinical, team and personal development.

Main duties of the job

To leadand mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contributeto competency assessment, supervision and professional development

To provideoperational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

To promotemedication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriatemonitoring for high-risk therapies.

To helpto translate national and local priorities into effective practice

Todeliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complexneeds.

To runpatient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, includingdomiciliary or care-home visits where required.

To leadaudits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using datato monitor impact and report progress.

To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patientoutcomes

To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working acrossmember practices.

Tooversee key medicines related programmes

About us

Hatters Health PCN is a successful, innovative and friendly PCN with 5 member practices, situated in North West Luton. We pride ourself on providing a positive and collaborative atmosphere where everyone works together for the benefit of our population and our staff. We are a very friendly, supportive organisation which genuinely values learning and development and as such were the first PCN in BLMK to be recognised as a training organisation. Our pharmacy team benefit from regular tutorials and clinical supervision.

Job responsibilities

Summary:To provide leadership and developmentfor the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality,patient-centred clinical care.

Role:

1. To leadand mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contributeto competency assessment, supervision and professional development

2. To provideoperational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

3. To promotemedication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriatemonitoring for high-risk therapies.

4. To helpto translate national and local priorities into effective practice

5. Todeliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complexneeds.

6. To runpatient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, includingdomiciliary or care-home visits where required.

7. To leadaudits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using datato monitor impact and report progress.

8. To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patientoutcomes

9. To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working acrossmember practices.

10. Tooversee key medicines related programmes

Responsibilities:

Clinical

Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including:

Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients

Long-term condition management (e.g. hypertension,asthma, diabetes)

Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety.

Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and otherhealthcare professionals on safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing

In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs,Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patientand adapt therapy where appropriate

Address the day-to-day issues raised by patients /staff in relation to medicines management and elevate / investigate / preventrecurrence as necessary

Competently manage and undertake patient clinics,organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patientfollow-ups and medicine optimisation.

Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamlessintegration of pharmacy into patient pathways.

Leadership & Management:

Line Manage, mentor and support the pharmacyworkforce, ensuring role clarity, supervision, appraisal and continuingcontinuous professional development (CPD).

Champion a culture of continuous improvement,mentoring and shared learning.

Engage in the recruitment, conduct or performance management of Pharmacy Team members, with the support of the PCN Manager

Take responsibility for own development, learningand performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who areundertaking similar work.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of a Masters in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Completion of CPPE
• Completion of IP qualification
• Leadership qualification or experience

Experience

• Significant experience in a clinical pharmacist role in primary care.
• Experience managing or supervising pharmacy staff.
• Knowledge of PCN DES, NHS Long Term Plan and national prescribing guidance (e.g. NICE, NHSE).
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare, medicine optimisation, polypharmacy and therapeutics.
• Proven involvement in service development or quality improvement initiatives.
• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, risk management and incident reporting.
• Involvement in achieving PCN DES, QOF or IIF targets.
• Experience in developing and implementing clinical governance frameworks.

Personal

• Ability to lead and manage clinical and operation aspects of pharmacy services.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to influence and collaborate effectively.
• Patient-centred approach with a commitment to reducing health inequalities.
• Pro‑active, self‑motivated and committed to CPD.
• Excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and service needs.
• Experience of Systm0ne clinical records

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.