PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Central North Leeds Primary Care Network Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Leeds is seeking a motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join their pharmacy team. The role involves managing long-term conditions, performing medication reviews, and supporting the quality of patient care. Ideal candidates will have a pharmacy master’s degree, be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and possess strong clinical knowledge. This position offers competitive salary banding and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Post is not suitable for a newly qualified pharmacist.
• Willing to enrol onto the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway from CPPE.
• Experience in partnership/collaborative working is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support management of long-term conditions.
• Perform medication reviews.
• Contribute to PCN contract, QOF, and local quality improvement.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Ability to address health inequalities

Collaboration skills

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Vocational masters degree in pharmacy

Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Go back Central North Leeds Primary Care Network Ltd

PCN Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 07 December 2025

Central North Leeds PCN are looking to recruit to their pharmacy team, to continue delivering excellent pharmacy-led services to our population. We are looking for a motivated and aspirational clinical pharmacist to join our established team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, to work closely with the multidisciplinary PCN teams and the wider locality. The role is critical in supporting the delivery of the PCN Contract DES specifications and will help lead improvements to maximise safe, evidenced-based best practice to improve the quality of patient care.

Applications encouraged from pharmacists with patient-facing experience from any sector and/or pharmacists looking for a new direction. Post is not suitable for a newly qualified pharmacist. Interest in working in general practice is essential. As a PCN Pharmacist you will receive fully accredited training from CPPE and will be provided with appropriate supervision from a GP clinical supervisor and Senior Pharmacists.

Do you have:

• Up-to-date clinical knowledge who understand the nature of primary care prescribing, medication review, and strategies for improving prescribing
• A commitment to addressing health inequalities and proactively reaching people from all communities
• The ability to recognise their personal limitations and boundaries, to understand those of their colleagues, and refer to other colleagues when necessary
• The ability to thrive when working in a devolved, flexible, autonomous environment

Main duties of the job

• Work within your clinical competencies with a high level of support and supervision from the PCN Clinical Pharmacists.
• The role will structured to provide person-centred expertise in clinical medicines management, medicine optimisation, safer prescribing and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the PCN DES contract, quality and outcomes framework and local enhanced services.
• Undertake a patient facing role in managing long-term conditions; working directly with patients to assess and treat conditions, as well as promote self-care
• Perform medication reviews
• You will require flexibility to develop in line with the national service specification in the GP contract and NHS Long Term Plan and in respond to the evolving needs of PCNs
• You will be a forward-thinking, flexible, innovative and about working collaboratively across the team and keen to deliver the ethos of the network
• Deal with management of medicines on transfer of care: discharge letters, treatment advice notes and medicines reconciliation

We will support you to develop your role, including enrolment on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway from CPPE and becoming an independent prescriber. You will have line-management from the Senior Clinical Pharmacist within the PCN, and a GP clinical supervisor. Peer support is vital for this role and this will be provided by pharmacy colleagues within the PCN and wider system across Leeds.

About us

We are a well-established and innovativePCN of 5 general practices with a long history of working together and workingwith a range of local providers, including across primary care, communityservices, social care and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalised,coordinated health and social care to around 80,000 people.

The PCN works hand-in-hand with generalpractice staff and employs a wide variety of roles outside of the pharmacyteam, namely; social and well-being prescribers, paramedics, occupationaltherapists, health and wellbeing coaches, nurse associates, careassistants and a phlebotomist. The PCN team work closely with each other healthcare professionals and meet monthly as part of a multi-disciplinary team todiscuss complex patients. There is a strong emphasis on learning anddevelopment of PCN staff and as such the PCN have created a supportiveenvironment for staff to flourish.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

Tosupport a Primary Care Network (PCN) within Leeds in all aspects of medicinesoptimisation.

Thepost holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of amultidisciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisationacross the PCN. This will include medication reviews with direct patientcontact and may include contributing to:

Management oflong term conditions

Management ofmedicines on transfer of care

Reviewing systemsfor safer prescribing

Contributing torepeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.

Addressing boththe public health and social care needs of patients

Contributing toachievement of PCN DES contract, QOF and locally commissioned qualityimprovement schemes.

Undertakingclinical audit

Developing,promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence based and cost effectiveuse of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits ofmedicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical,legal and financial).

Thespecifics of the role will be worked up between the post-holder and the PCN.

Thepost holder will be supported by existing pharmacy professionals employedwithin the PCN and a GP clinical supervisor. They will also engage with otherpharmacy colleagues in Leeds for peer support.

Thepost holder will be required to enrol on the Primary Care Pharmacy EducationPathway from CPPE, following which will be required to enrol on a prescribingcourse.

In addition to thesefunctions the post holder is expected to:

In agreement with theirline manager carries out such other duties as may be reasonably expected inaccordance with the grade of the post.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent + 1 year pre-registration training
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Willing to enrol onto the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway from CPPE OR completed the course
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups

Professional registration

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing. Analyse and interpret complex prescribing information and present information in a clear way
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Interpret data to draw conclusions
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
• Understand the principles of research governance

Other

• Adaptable
• Evidence of being a great team-player
• Self-Motivation
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
• Immunisation status

Experience

• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with internal and external agencies/ stakeholders

Personal Qualities & Attributes

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
• High level of written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks

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.

Central North Leeds Primary Care Network Ltd

Depending on experienceLocal contract based on Band 7 (£47,800 - £53,000)