Pcn - clinical pharmacists

Are you a pharmacist who is passionate aboutexploring a new opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in delivering excellencein patient clinical care?

The Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking fora team of clinical pharmacists to join their growing Arc Primary Care Pharmacy Team,to work alongside our existing workforce of clinical pharmacists, seniorclinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Following a period of rapid growth, includingthe promotion and redeployment of several of our clinical pharmacists, in orderto facilitate optimised skill-mix, the development of the roles of pharmacistsand technicians, and the integration of a substantive pharmacy workforce intoour Ageing Well Team for housebound and care home patients, we find ourselveswith a mixture of full time and part time posts to fill at WhittingtonMoor Surgery, Brimington Surgery and Inspire Health. We are open minded to job-share and cross-practice options. Whilstthese roles are integrated and embedded in one practice, it is part of a largerand growing team of pharmacy professionals across the PCN, that is committed todelivering high quality care for our patients through collaborative working.

Working hours and pattern can be discussed by contacting the Lead Clinical Pharmacist.

Interviews for this post will be held at Arc Primary Care, Dunston Innovation Centre, face to face, on Thursday 2 July 2026.

Please note we are not an Agenda for Change Organisation

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multidisciplinary team todeliver highquality clinical medicines management. The role will includeproviding patientfacing Structured Medication Reviews, supporting themanagement of longterm conditions, optimising medicines at transfer of care,and contributing to systems that promote safer prescribing. The post holderwill also support the management of repeat prescription authorisations andreauthorisations, as well as acute prescription requests, ensuring prescribingremains safe, effective, and aligned with best practice.

In undertaking this role, the post holder willaddress both the public health and wider social care needs of patientsregistered at GP practices within the PCN. They will work collaboratively withthe wider practice and PCN teams to improve health outcomes and reducehealthcare inequalities. The post holder will receive clinical supervision,mentorship, and professional support from senior and lead clinical pharmacists,who will support the development, governance, and oversight of their role.

This role is centralto improving the quality of care, patient experience, and operationalefficiency within general practice and therefore requires a high level ofmotivation, professionalism, and commitment to service improvement.

About us

Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN is one of the largest Primary Care Networks in the UK, delivering care to over 100,000 patients combined.

We deliver enhanced services within the PCN designed to support and enhance the services offered by our member GP Practices within Chesterfield. We do this by employing staff to work through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme and finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the changing needs of the Practices; we bid for contracts to help tackle health inequalities and drive up standards of care within the Chesterfield and Dronfield locality.

Our mission: Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and wellbeing for all.

Benefits of working with us:

• 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Up 5 days professional/study leave per annum
• Access to Wellbeing/Employee Assistance Programme
• Blue light Card Discount

Job responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

Deliver clinics for patients requiringmedication reviews, stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicinesadherence reviews (including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-termcondition/clinical reviews (see section 3) or holistic long-termcondition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews). Provide support forpatients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.

2. Medicinesrelated clinical support for care homes

Deliver clinical medication reviews in collaborationwith patients, care home staff, and the Ageing Well team, producing clear andevidencebased recommendations for the multidisciplinary team to supportmedicines optimisation, prescribing, and monitoring. Work collaboratively withcare home staff and the Ageing Well team to optimise medicines management andpromote safe, effective, and appropriate use of medicines, including updatingmedication at transfer of care and investigating and responding to requests formedication not on, or as on, repeat.

Deliver reviews to patients with single ormultiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g.,Respiratory, Cardiovascular-Reno-Metabolic). Review the on-going need for eachmedicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patientswith their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines(i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to SeniorPharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

4. Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews

Deliver clinical medication reviews withpatients in care home or domiciliary settings and produce recommendations for multidisciplinaryteams on (de)prescribing and monitoring.

Identify cohorts of patients at increased riskof harm from medicines using agreed, preprepared practice clinical systemsearches. This may include risks that are patientrelated, medicinerelated, ora combination of both, and will include the use of prescribing and clinicaldecisionsupport software such as Eclipse Live Radar 500 searches.

Where appropriate, pharmacy technicians will be accountable for reviewing and acting on the outcomes of these searcheswithin their scope of competence, in accordance with agreed protocols. Clinicalpharmacists will provide supervision and support where the management of highriskpatients falls outside the pharmacy technicians competence, and will assumeresponsibility during periods of leave or in exceptional circumstances.

6. Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated withunplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individualpatient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of thesemedicines to high-risk patient groups.

7. Management of medicines atdischarge from hospital

Reconcile medicines following discharge fromacute hospitals and intermediate care settings, including identifying,resolving, and appropriately escalating unexplained changes to medicines. Workcollaboratively with patients, carers, community pharmacists, and widerhealthcare professionals to ensure timely access to medicines and continuity ofcare postdischarge, including those requiring medicines compliance aids andresidents of care homes.

Provide mentorship, supervision, andappropriate delegation of medicines reconciliation activities to pharmacytechnicians and junior pharmacists, including foundation pharmacists, in linewith their competence and agreed governance arrangements.

8. Medicine information topractice staff and patients

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiriesfrom GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients withqueries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providingfollow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

9. Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to theappropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within anappropriate time period e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions,long term condition reviews etc.

10. Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisationprocess by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewingmedicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensurepatients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for thedevelopment and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g.,advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

12. Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issuesand risks to support decision making.

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing inareas directed by the GPs and the PCN team, feedback the results and implementchanges in conjunction with the relevant practice team.

Implement changes to medicines that resultfrom MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

15.Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the localhealth economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines thatshould be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care(amber drugs).

16. Education,Mentoring and Clinical Supervision

Provide education and training toprimary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Mentor,supervise and delegate, as appropriate, clinical workflow to pharmacytechnicians and more junior pharmacists (including foundation pharmacists), tooptimise skill-mix and aid team development.

17.Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices arecompliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

18.Public health

Support publichealth campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on all public health programsavailable to the general public.

19.Collaborative working arrangements

As part of an integrated pharmacy team, fosterand maintain collaborative working relationships with practice teams, ICBcolleagues including medicines management pharmacy professionals, the Ageing WellTeam and social prescribing team, and all other relevant services across thePCN and other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit the practiceand its patients.

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

• Awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Excellent Interpersonal, influencing & negotiating skills, to make shared decisions in situations where barriers to this may be present
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills, including appreciation of different communication needs and skills
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to various audiences (e.g. patients)
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use clinical systems, word processing skills, spreadsheets and emails to communicate effectively, document consultations and code accurately and safely, and produce timely and accurate reports
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information with accuracy, appropriate management of errors and logical innovation of solutions
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and able to recognise limitations of own competence, referring to more senior clinical colleagues when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, including prioritisation, time-keeping and sustainable working, including when resource levels change
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more suitable colleagues when appropriate
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• In depth therapeutic & clinical knowledge and an understanding of evidence-based medicine, clinical terminology, medicines optimisation and shared decision-making
• An appreciation of GPs and General Practice, including the relationship between GP, PCNs and ICBs in the context of the larger NHS and NHS funding.
• Experience of collaborative working and building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise & review general medicines optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions (LTCs)
• Understand the systems of research governance

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
• Follows professional & organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Membership Primary Care Pharmacists Association
• Membership Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Foundation training in primary care
• Clinical Diploma
• Independent Prescribing or currently working towards qualification

Experience

• Experience of working in Primary Care

Other

• Adaptable and self-motivated
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Appropriate Immunisation Status
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes

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.

£48,035.66 to £53,390 a yearDepending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working