Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A local health organization in North Solihull is seeking enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacists to join their Primary Care Network. This role involves managing long-term conditions and ensuring high-quality patient care across multiple GP practices. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and at least 2 years of post-qualification experience. Competitive salary offered, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Responsibilities

• Manage long-term conditions and conduct structured medication reviews.
• Support GP practices in medication queries and advice.
• Work autonomously across multiple surgeries to provide equitable service.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Complex patient care

Medication management

Collaborative teamwork

Education

Postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience

Job description

Overview

Go back Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

The closing date is 05 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Clinical Pharmacists to join the North Solihull Primary Care Network (full time and part time considered). Following the career progression of two colleagues, we are looking for two enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Pharmacists to join our Primary Care Network (PCN) in North Solihull. This is a pivotal role in improving patient care, supporting GP practices, and optimising the use of medicines across our population and you will be contributing to the delivery of high quality care across six GP Practices serving a patient population of 40,000.

As a Clinical Pharmacist within our PCN, you will work across a group of GP practices, supported by experienced GPs and multi-disciplinary team that includes GPs, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists, social prescribing and more. You will play a vital role in managing long-term conditions, carrying out structured medication reviews, and supporting safe prescribing. You will also be given the opportunity to run pharmacist-led clinics and, where appropriate, manage minor illnesses.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a GP lead who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. They will work autonomously and travel between allocated surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
• The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. This will include roles such as GPs, nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, paramedics, social prescribing link workers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and administrative staff. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
• The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage.

About us

North Solihull Primary Care Network consists of 6 practices working closely together to provide high-quality, patient-centered care.

As a PCN we serve a population of approximately 40,000 patients, with our purpose being to support GP practices in collaborating to develop and deliver network-based services that respond to the needs of our local community. Our aim is to sustain real improvements in both patient care and our working lives.

We take pride in providing excellent clinical support and care to both patients and colleagues. With this commitment, we focus on the continued development of our teams. We are looking for two dynamic and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to further strengthen our PCN team. If this sounds like you, apply now!

Job responsibilities

• The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working in the GP practices within the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a GP Lead / Mentor and GPleads who will discuss the development of the role and offer mentorship. They will work autonomously and travel between surgeries to ensure that the population of the PCN has equitable access to their service.
• The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team. This will include roles such as GPs, nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, paramedics, social prescribing link workers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and administrative staff. The Clinical Pharmacist will bring their expertise around medicines and prescribing to assist the team in providing holistic care.
• The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to manage proactively patients with complex polypharmacy. Areas of focus might include CVD, COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, Frailty, etc.
• The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. This may be face to face in surgery, patients homes, care homes, via telephone consultation or via online working. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and 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 in the GP practice(s). They may run minor ailment clinics in surgery as appropriate for a pharmacy led clinic.
• The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates 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 excellent service within general practice. The post holder may be supported to develop their role, if not already, to become a non-medical prescriber.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

Other

• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Full UK Driving Licence

Skills

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)

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.

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

Depending on experience£38,682 to £53,648 per annum pro rata