SS9-North PCN Clinical Pharmacist

SS9-North Primary Care Network; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A primary care network located in Leigh on Sea is seeking a dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to improve patient outcomes through innovative medication management and collaboration with community healthcare providers. Candidates should have a University Degree in Clinical Pharmacy and a strong focus on patient safety and clinical audits. The role is pivotal in delivering high-quality care and will include responsibilities such as conducting medication reviews and providing training to practice staff. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to make a real difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience with Medicines Management in a clinical setting.
• Experience in clinical audit and primary care.
• Strong understanding of patient safety and medication reviews.

Responsibilities

• Manage clinical medication reviews and optimize patient care.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to ensure safe medication use.
• Conduct audits and training sessions for staff.

Skills

Medicines Management

Clinical Audit

Collaboration

Patient-centered care

Education

University Degree in Clinical Pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Job description

Join Our Visionary Team at SS9-North PCN Where Your Expertise Transforms Lives

Are you a passionate Clinical Pharmacist ready to make a meaningful impact in a forward-thinking and supportive environment? At SS9-North Primary Care Network, we are redefining patient care through innovation, collaboration, and clinical excellence. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a dynamic Clinical Pharmacist to become an integral part of our multidisciplinary team bringing expert medication knowledge directly into primary care and improving outcomes for our diverse patient population. If you're ready to elevate your career while making a real difference in the community, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The post holder will maintain professional registration and uphold all relevant codes of conduct. They will independently manage their workload, which includes audit, project work, and the delivery of training sessions for practice staff and healthcare professionals. Continuous professional development is essential, with a focus on keeping up to date with the latest clinical, legislative, and policy guidance.

Strong collaboration with community pharmacists, local healthcare providers, and national bodies is key. The pharmacist will also represent the practice at relevant local, regional, and national meetings and may be expected to undertake additional duties aligned with the scope and seniority of the role. All responsibilities must be carried out in line with organisational policies on health and safety, equality, confidentiality, and clinical governance.

Med Review

Clinical and non-clinical Audit

Staff and Patient education for correct use of clinical Pharmacist

Repeat Prescribing

About us

Welcome to SS9-North Primary Care Network, proudly based in the vibrant coastal town of Leigh-on-Sea. As a collaborative of progressive GP practices, we are committed to reshaping the future of primary care through innovation, compassion, and community connection. At the heart of our approach is a deep focus on holistic, patient-centred care, where we consider the whole person not just their symptoms. We believe that high-quality healthcare starts with relationships, and our diverse, multidisciplinary team works closely to deliver personalised support that truly makes a difference.

We pride ourselves on being forward-thinking innovators, actively embracing digital tools and data-driven approaches to enhance access, efficiency, and outcomes. From remote monitoring to proactive population health strategies, we’re transforming how care is delivered keeping health in the home and reducing unnecessary hospital visits. SS9-North PCN is a place where passionate professionals come together to shape a healthier future for our community. If you're driven by purpose and excited by the possibilities of modern primary care, you’ll find a welcoming and ambitious team here.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes. To plan and organise own workload including audit project work and provide training sessions for other members of the multidisciplinary team. Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical and therapeutic evidence and opinion and local and national service legislation and policy developments. To develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other stakeholders. Attend local regional and national meetings of relevance. Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the locality and practice lead GPs. All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements such as health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance.

Clinical Responsibilities Management of medicines after discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes. Identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes without referral to the GP. Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests. Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients such as those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes. Work in partnership with hospital colleagues such as care of the elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine-related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care.

Risk stratification Design develop and implement clinical system searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economist's red amber green grey lists for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care. Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Audit practices compliance with NICE guidance. Proactively provide practice communications on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence.

Medicines safety Identify national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence from clinical trials. Coordinate the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Unplanned hospital admissions Devise and implement practice clinical system searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with multiprofessional health and social care review teams to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Coordinate with practice MDTs to provide high level care to patients in care homes, those with high risk of admission and identified frailty patients. Attend care homes regularly to review any issues concerning medication and perform medication reviews with residents as appropriate.

Repeat prescribing Review, update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

Medication review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Assess suitability of drugs, identify adverse effects, encourage compliance and appropriate medication use. Order relevant monitoring tests following NICE guidance, local and national policies and practice based clinical procedures.

Telephone and patient facing medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold clinics for patients requiring face to face clinical medication reviews such as a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Identify people at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings as required.

Clinical medication reviews Scope to provide pharmacist led clinics with the practice ideally as an independent prescriber. For example hypertension or medication review clinics dependent on the needs of the practice.

Care home medication reviews Manage own caseload of care home residents if required by the practice. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings as required.

Domiciliary medication review Manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity, polypharmacy and at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings as required.

Long term condition clinics See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines including deprescribing.

Service development After discussion and agreement with the Locality Lead Practice develop and manage new services following local and national recommendations. This may include new medicines or NICE guidance where new medicine recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway such as new oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Care Quality Commission Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Cost saving programmes Make recommendations for support and supervise practice prescribing clerks. Make changes to medicines designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients whilst suggesting and recommending solutions. Provide follow ups for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Medicines quality improvement Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Either conduct own audits and improvement projects or work with colleagues such as GP registrars. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Contribute to national and local research initiatives.

Training and shared learning Provide education and training to primary healthcare teams on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Facilitate shared learning across the practices on medication related issues offering professional support and leadership.

Administration and professional responsibilities To work within the professional code and other directives as defined by your relevant professional body. Work autonomously and be accountable for his or her professional actions. To develop and maintain an up to date personal development plan. Be responsible for remaining up to date with CPD requirements to maintain professional registration. To ensure own mandatory and statutory training certificates are current and in line with the organisational policy. Undertake any recertification and patient care training as required by West Locality Group. Highlight any gaps in knowledge or training needs to the Locality Lead Practice to allow them the opportunity to offer support in order to fulfil the duties of this post. To offer clinical leadership support and training to colleagues and students. To participate in clinical supervision. To demonstrate a clear understanding of the accountability and legal implications of the role. To participate in relevant service evaluation and improvement processes. To participate in a regular performance review using agreed competency framework appropriate to the individual's scope of practice. Develop and apply the best available research evidence and evaluative and reflective thinking in all practices. To maintain and maximise patient confidentiality, dignity and privacy. To comply with equal opportunities policies and procedures. To comply with health and safety and infection control policies including use of personal protective equipment where supplied. To maintain a professional attitude and public image at all times. Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team. Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes. Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded and amended. Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice. Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit. Attend and participate in practice and locality meetings as required. Report any problems to the Operations Manager.

Supplies and equipment Maintenance of equipment and stock relating to patient care.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience with Medicines Management
• Experience in Clinical Audit
• Experience of working in Primary Care
• Experience of working in Secondary Care

Qualifications

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• University Degree in Clinical Pharmacy.
• Previous experience in Primary Care

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.