Job Summary
Altrincham Healthcare Alliance Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking to recruit an Independent Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist to join a PCN of five GP Practices covering 48,000 patients in South Trafford. Working 30-32 hours per week, the ideal candidate will be a forward-thinking, enthusiastic individual with initiative who is keen to work within a team of like-minded people and deliver excellent pharmacy-led services. You will become part of an evolving team of 7 Clinical Pharmacists with clinical support from the Lead GP.
Working across the five GP practices within Altrincham Healthcare Alliance PCN, you will work closely with GPs, nurse practitioners, social prescribers and existing pharmacists as part of a multi-disciplinary team while also building strong effective working relationships with the local community, hospitals, the PCN community pharmacy lead and wider pharmacy teams to improve the care and services to our patients.
The role will focus on achieving PCN initiatives as set out in the PCN contract, NHS Long Term Plan and deliverables agreed by the network members to improve place based patient care.
Key Responsibilities
* Management of patients with chronic diseases to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy
* Clinically assess and treat patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
* Provision of specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address public health and social care needs and tackling inequalities across the PCN area
* Development of relationships and close working with pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care economy
* Provision of leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement
* Delivery of first-class, professional service to support patients and GP practices across the PCN
* Structured Medication Reviews
* Management of long-term conditions
* Management of medicines on transfer of care
* Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
* Addressing both the health and social care needs of patients
* Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
* Undertaking clinical audit
* 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)
About Us
Altrincham Healthcare Alliance are an enthusiastic, friendly PCN committed to improving the health of our population and providing a first-class, caring, patient-centred health service. We are constantly striving to improve patient healthcare outcomes and the post holder will play an integral role within the network and be part of the MDT enabling this to happen.
Our pharmacy goals are: to improve patient lives, to make medicines safer for patients, to raise the profile of PCN Clinical Pharmacists as medicines experts in the multi-disciplinary team of general practice, and to reduce GP workload.
Salary & Contract
Pay: £55,690 to £62,682 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: A3211-23-0000
Job location: Lloyd House, 7 Lloyd Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DD
Qualifications
Essential
* Please see person specification document
Additional Information
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.
UK Registration
* Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Altrincham Healthcare Alliance PCN
Lloyd House, 7 Lloyd Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DD
Website: https://www.altrinchamhealthcarealliance.co.uk/EN/index.aspx#Home--0--0--
Application Deadline
Date posted: 10 October 2025
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