Please note - the job location is the registered office for Penwith PCN - the role itself is GP Practice based, with exact location yet to be decided within Penwith PCN.
Job Summary
Penwith Primary Care Network is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Primary Care Pharmacist to join our forward-thinking team across seven GP practices in West Cornwall. This patient-facing role offers the opportunity to run your own clinics, manage long-term conditions, optimise medicines, and work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. You will be a prescriber (or working towards qualification) and play a key role in promoting safe, effective, and cost-efficient prescribing across the PCN. We offer dedicated support, professional development, and the chance to shape your role around your clinical interests all within one of the UKs most beautiful locations.
Main duties of the job
You’ll be a key part of both your practice team and the wider PCN pharmacy network, working closely with GPs, nurses, HCAs, and administrative colleagues to deliver high-quality, person-centred care focused on whatmatters to you, not what's the matter with you.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills, contribute to innovation in primary care, and make a real difference to the health of our local population.
We welcome applications from newly qualified and experienced clinical pharmacists. You will be a prescriber or working towards this qualification and keen to take full advantage of ongoing development opportunities.
About us
About Us
Penwith Primary Care Network is a large, forward-thinking and well-integrated network covering seven GP practices across beautiful West Cornwall. Each practice has its own dedicated pharmacist and pharmacy technician, ensuring strong local support and collaboration across the PCN.
We have also developed a Pharmacy Virtual Hub a unique and innovative space where our pharmacy team connect, share best practice, collaborate on projects and audits, and support each other to ensure continuity of care during periods of absence.
We are now looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Primary Care Pharmacist to join our growing team and help shape the future of medicines optimisation across our practices.
Why Join Us?
* A supportive, innovative and collaborative PCN culture.
* Dedicated pharmacy technician support in every practice.
* Opportunities to shape your role around your interests and professional goals.
* Access to development pathways, prescribing support and mentorship.
* The chance to live and work in one of the most scenic and welcoming parts of the UK.
If you're passionate about delivering safe, effective, and personalised care, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team that values collaboration and innovation we'd love to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
* Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to clinically assess, treat and support patients using expert knowledge of medicines in specific disease areas.
* Prescribe independently (or be working towards qualification) and collaborate closely with GPs and the wider team.
* Lead on the care of patients with long-term conditions, conducting structured medication reviews and managing complex polypharmacy particularly in older adults, care home residents, and those with frailty, COPD, asthma, learning disabilities or autism (via the STOMP programme).
* Provide expert medicines advice to improve patient safety, support public health priorities, and reduce health inequalities.
* Champion person-centred medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and quality improvement, contributing to QOF and enhanced service delivery.
* Support patients to get the best from their medicines, reduce waste, and promote self-care.
* Build strong working relationships with community and hospital pharmacy teams to improve continuity of care.
* Take a lead role in shared care protocols, specialist medicines, and clinical research, working closely with hospital colleagues.
* Participate in a supportive professional network, seeking clinical supervision and contributing to continuous development.
Leadership, Governance and Resource Management
* Promote high-quality, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing across primary and secondary care.
* Analyse prescribing data (PACT and ePACT) to identify trends, guide decision-making, and ensure best use of NHS resources.
* Support practices to achieve QOF and incentive scheme targets, improving both clinical outcomes and cost efficiency.
* Maintain the secure and responsible use of equipment, data and information systems.
Communication and Leadership
* Act as a key link between GP practices, community pharmacies and secondary care.
* Provide expert advice to community pharmacists on prescribing developments and service changes.
* Monitor and manage the influence of pharmaceutical industry representatives to ensure evidence-based prescribing
Policy and Service Development
* Contribute to developing and implementing local prescribing policies and protocols in collaboration with GPs and hospital clinicians.
* Lead or support quality improvement projects to enhance medicines safety and patient outcomes across Penwith PCN.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE Grades A to C in English and Maths
* Qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips the post holder to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways) and deliver the key responsibilities outlined in the job description
Knowledge & Skills
* Ability to critically appraise information to distil and share with colleagues and the GP practice(s).
* Ability to assist in analysing medicines data, including interpreting e-PACT data and providing reports.
* Familiarity with EMIS and similar programs.
Experience
* Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist in a community setting.
* Experience of working in a primary care setting.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines when under pressure.
* Ability to work autonomously and make decisions with the boundaries and scope of the role.
* Can demonstrate tact, diplomacy and negotiating skills.
* Ability to develop good working relationships with the whole range of practice staff and a network of contacts within the locality and secondary care to provide problem-solving advice on a wide range of matters relating to medicines.
* Ability to work in a discreet and professional manner, respecting and maintaining the confidentiality of patient specific and prescribing data.
* Willingness to undertake mandatory training online or face-to-face, and to undertake further training as the service/need develops.
* Clean driving licence and own vehicle.
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.
£43,000 to £52,809 a year(Agenda for Change band 7 equivalent)
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