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Integrated Primary Care Network Pharmacist
The closing date is 06 February 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Pharmacist to join our Integrated Pharmacy workforce providing a service to our PCNs within Wallasey and Moreton and Meols.
These PCNs are a group of 8 GP practices working together to provide joined up services to support their patients to live happier, healthier lives. You will join an experienced and dynamic team that includes GPs, Nurses, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers & Physiotherapists to provide clinical pharmacy services to our local population.
We have embraced collaboration to achieve a system wide overview of the patients' medicines journey. This helps you identify how processes can be improved when patients move between care settings and become part of the system wide pharmacy family. You will be supported to complete the CPPE pathway
Main duties of the job
You will support these PCNs with the delivery of safe, effective systems for medicines optimisation, reducing waste and maximising patient outcomes through structured medication review.
You will contribute to new ways of working and using the skills that your role can bring to evolving PCN services.
You will be responsible for promoting good practice in line with clinical and operational guidelines and will clinically support the pharmacy technicians with medicines reconciliation post discharge and other medicines projects.
On a day-to-day basis you will spend time within the PCN hubs and in GP practices to answer clinical queries from patients, local GPs and clinicians, trusts and other services such as care homes. You will be supported to build strong relationships with community pharmacy and trust pharmacy colleagues.
Ultimately your role will be to support our patients to help them get the most out of their medicines and to play an active part in their own healthcare decisions.
About us
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Job responsibilities
Whilst this is an integrated post we welcome applications from candidates with a Community/Primary Care background who would like to work solely in Primary Care.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Integrated Primary Care Network Pharmacist position available at WUTH.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
* Vocational Master Degree in Pharmacy plus 1 year pre-registration experience
* Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification or equivalent vocational experience
* Post registration clinical experience in a relevant area of practice
* Significant relevant and ongoing CPD
Knowledge and Skills
* Understanding of the wider determinates of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
* Good motivational skills and the ability to positively promote change in a complex healthcare environment
* Produce timely and informative reports
* High degree of computer literacy including database searching and manipulation of spreadsheets
Personal Attributes
* Methodical with attention to detail
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.
Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
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