Senior PCN Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to enhance patient care through strong leadership and collaboration. This role involves managing clinical pharmacists and technicians, ensuring excellent care within practices, and training staff. Applicants should have a pharmacy degree, GPhC registration, and experience in clinical roles. The position offers generous benefits, including remote options, and supports professional development. Join a dedicated team committed to patient-centered care in a vibrant work environment.

Benefits

5 weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays

Sick pay

Health and wellbeing program

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with GPhC.
• Experience in practice-based clinical pharmacy roles.
• Capability to integrate with healthcare teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management to the pharmacy team.
• Deliver training and development for clinical pharmacists.
• Support clinical governance activities and compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Patient-centered care

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Independent prescribing qualification

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

At The Pharmacist Network, we value our employees and are committed to supporting their professional growth and well‑being. We offer a competitive salary, flexible remote working arrangements and ongoing professional development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic growing team. The successful candidate will work in collaboration and would truly be part of a larger team working to improve patient care and will possess vital leadership, management skills and values.

About us

The Pharmacist Network is a pharmacist‑led organisation providing high‑quality pharmacist and pharmacy technician services to general practices nationwide. We are committed to delivering patient‑centred care and fostering a culture of positivity, transparency and excellence. Our workforce of over 250 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians is supported by an experienced senior clinical team who facilitate training, development and workflow management across primary care and PCN settings.

Job responsibilities

The Pharmacist Network are a pharmacist led organisation who provide to general practices nationally, with the delivery of pharmacist and pharmacy technician services. We pride ourselves on attracting and retaining likeminded individuals who are passionate about patient centred care, and we value a culture of positivity, transparency and excellence. The organisation possesses a wealth of experience and expertise within our current workforce of 250+ Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians.

Our senior clinical team support the training, development and workflow management of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians within primary care and PCN settings.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic growing team. The successful candidate will work in collaboration and would truly be part of a larger team working to improve patient care and will possess vital leadership, management skills and values.

You will be a pharmacist registered with the GPhC, who acts within their professional boundaries, and work alongside the pharmacy team. They will provide leadership, line management and support to clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians within the PCN/Practices they are responsible for.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to develop this role and deliver excellence within general practice.

About the role

Support Head Office with core functions such as: administrative and recruitment support.

• Maintain a safe clinical rota and supporting staff logistics.
• Work with admin to discuss rotas, cover, illness, HR emails from pharmacists and support.
• Work with recruitment when necessary to support the recruitment and retention of staff.
• Partake in interviewing.
• Support the Trainee Technicians with their workload - meet with them, deliver required training, track their progress, feedback on their work.
• Write, approve and review documents, policies, protocols.
• Attend and engage at the Senior weekly meetings and progress actions assigned to yourself for completion in a timely manner.

Deliver training:

• To ensure staff are competent to deliver work within their boundary.
• Develop training guides, SOPs, policies to support their work.
• Signposting pharmacists needing additional training to resources (MORPh, CPPE, RPS, other).
• Research resources to signpost to (for clinicians and patients).
• Perform staff monthly 1-2-1s, review ongoing competency using the competency framework and complete annual appraisals.
• Observing CPPE work, giving feedback and liaising with their clinical supervisor or CPPE tutor as required.

Support The Team:

• Check all Pharmacists have appropriate workload and ledgers. Conduct quality assurance reviews of consultations and provide constructive feedback & set out a learning and development plan.
• Support Pharmacists with clinical queries when needed.
• Support with clinical sessions, where required.
• Working with team to provide progress reviews of PCN work streams.
• Ensure pharmacists are always working within their clinical competency and are achieving a holistic approach when consulting with patients.
• Make sure pharmacists show knowledge about and adhere to the following processes:
• Ensuring teams are working to a high clinical standard with their consults through supervision, feedback and creating development plans.
• Understanding and experience of conducting long term condition reviews, complex medication reviews and daily practice work streams such as medicines reconciliation and medication queries. With a consideration of how to improve these processes for practices.
• Assist & manage the practices & PCNs local incentive scheme and QOF medication‑related requirements to ensure they meet the target.
• Auditing practice’s work streams and identify areas for medication related improvement and safety.
• Implement local and national guidelines and formula recommendations.

Support the company’s Clinical Governance agenda

• Responding to feedback from Practices e.g. complaints/ investigations, significant events.
• Ensuring compliance with CQC standards where medicines management/optimization is involved.
• Tracking completion and maintenance of mandatory training requirement.
• Supporting activities to complete re validation and maintain registration as a registered pharmacist with the GPhC.

Benefits for employees:

• GPhC fees and DBS Applications paid
• 5 weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays (Pro rata as and when required)
• Sick pay (within company policy)
• Health & wellbeing program with the following free services, confidential counselling, digital gym, high street stores discounts
• An established network of over 200 pharmacists nationally and dedicated senior pharmacist support available
• Company equipment e.g. laptop / smart card reader
• Flexibility

The Pharmacist Network are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce, and welcome applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Join our team of dedicated healthcare professionals and make a difference in patient care through your expertise as a Clinical Pharmacist. If this role is suitable for you, please apply today. We look forward to receiving your application!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Holds an independent prescribing qualification and has experiencing of working as an independent prescriber.
• Successful completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or holds equivalence or exemption certificate.
• Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
• Completion of a recognised leadership qualification.

Experience

• Experience of working as a practice‑based or PCN based clinical pharmacist.
• Qualified pharmacist demonstrably established as practicing at an advanced level, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Experience and an 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.
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.

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.