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Central North Leeds Primary Care Network Ltd

The closing date is 07 December 2025

Central North Leeds PCN is seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our established and expanding pharmacy team. Working at the heart of the PCN, you will provide expert clinical leadership, help shape pharmacy‑led services, and contribute to high‑quality, patient‑centred care across our practices.

This senior role is pivotal in supporting delivery of the Primary Care Network Contract DES and in driving improvements in safe, evidence‑based prescribing and medicines optimisation. You will work closely with the wider multidisciplinary teams across the PCN and locality and will provide leadership, supervision, mentorship, and support to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within the network.

Applications are welcomed from experienced patient‑facing pharmacists from any sector with a strong interest in general practice. You will receive accredited training through CPPE where required and benefit from supervision from a GP clinical supervisor and peer support from the senior Pharmacy Team.

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, you will:

• Work within your clinical competencies with support from the PCN Senior Pharmacy Team, contributing to high level clinical leadership.
• Provide expert medicines optimisation, safer prescribing support, and quality improvement across PCN practices.
• Undertake patient‑facing clinical work, including long‑term condition management, structured medication reviews, participation in specialist clinics and promoting self‑care.
• Take an active role in providing supervision to pharmacists within the team.
• Contribute to delivery of the PCN DES, QOF, and local enhanced services.
• Support service development, audit, and innovation across the network.
• Adapt to evolving national priorities in line with the GP contract and NHS Long Term Plan.
• Act as a role model for the pharmacy team, offering supervision, peer support, and mentorship.
• You will be a forward‑thinking, flexible, innovative and enthusiastic about working collaboratively across the team and keen to deliver the ethos of the network.

We are a well‑established and innovative PCN of 5 general practices with a long history of working together and working with a range of local providers, including across primary care, community services, 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 general practice staff and employs a wide variety of roles outside of the pharmacy team, namely; social and well‑being prescribers, paramedics, occupational therapists, health and wellbeing coaches, nurse associates, health care assistants and a phlebotomist. The PCN team works closely with each other health care professionals and meet monthly as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to discuss complex patients. There is a strong emphasis on learning and development of PCN staff and as such the PCN have created a supportive environment for staff to flourish.

To support Central North Leeds Primary Care Network (PCN) within Leeds in all aspects of medicines optimisation.

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:

• Management of long‑term conditions
• Management of medicines on transfer of care
• Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
• Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and re‑authorisation
• Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
• Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
• Undertaking clinical audit
• Leading developing, promoting and implementing the high quality, evidence‑based and cost‑effective use of medicines in primary care in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users and which minimises risks (clinical, legal and financial).
• Working with other Health and Social Care agencies across Leeds to implement a coordinated medicines optimisation approach across the wider health economy.
• To develop, support and implement agreed prescribing and pharmaceutical activities or programmes within GP practices across a PCN.

See Full Job Description for more detail about Key Responsibilities.

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

• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long‑term 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
• Experience of leading and managing staff
• Able to provide and receive highly complex/contentious optimisation/therapeutic information to a multi‑professional audience
• Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with external agencies/stakeholder
• Evidence of significant personal development, professionally and managerially
• 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. ICBs)
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• 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
• Demonstrates leadership experience and previous experience of supervising and mentoring more junior staff
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

• Commensurable experience working at advanced level 1 of the RPS pharmacy framework, demonstrated within practice portfolio
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• 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
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• 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. Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions
• Able to effectively manage resources (financial and others) to ensure delivery of a service/project
• 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
• Able to plan complex medicines management projects and programmes
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
• Understand the principles of research governance

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Adaptable
• Work effectively independently and as a team player
• Self‑motivated
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training
• 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

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) + 1 year pre‑registration training
• Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training
• Holds an independent prescribing qualification
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Successful completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway

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