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Job Summary
Stafford Town Primary Care Network (STPCN) is looking for an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join our rapidly expanding team of Healthcare Professionals. The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within general practice. This post will have a patient facing role and the post holder should be a qualified prescriber or working towards this. The clinical pharmacist will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
Job Summary
Stafford Town Primary Care Network (STPCN) is looking for an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join our rapidly expanding team of Healthcare Professionals. The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within general practice. This post will have a patient facing role and the post holder should be a qualified prescriber or working towards this. The clinical pharmacist will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP Practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Main duties of the job
Primary Duties And Areas Of Responsibility
Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
Make appropriate recommendations for medicine improvement.
Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Patient Facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments
Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient Facing Medicines Support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
About Us
Stafford Town Primary Care Network (STPCN) are looking for a part-time enthusiastic and keen Clinical Pharmacist to join our Primary Care Network. You would be joining the amazing STPCN Team! We have a close and expanding team of clinicians serving around 44,000 patients set in Historic County Town of Stafford.
Within the Stafford Town PCN we have 4 surgeries, Wolverhampton Road Surgery, Holmcroft Surgery, Castlefields Surgery and Stafford Health & Wellbeing Surgery.
Details
Date posted
06 August 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£47,000 to £51,000 a year Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
B0176-25-0012
Job locations
Stafford Health & Wellbeing
Whitgreave Court
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST16 3EB
Castlefields Surgery
Castle Way
Stafford
ST16 1BS
Holmcroft Surgery
Holmcroft Road
Stafford
ST16 1JG
Wolverhampton Road Surgery
Wolverhampton Road
Stafford
ST17 4BS
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
Make appropriate recommendations for medicine improvement.
Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Patient Facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments
Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient Facing Medicines Support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Telephone Medicines Support
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines, suggesting and recommending solutions.
Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital Admissions
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat Prescribing
Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk Stratification
Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Service Development
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Information Management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines Quality Improvement
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Medicines Safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Implementation of Local and National Guidelines and Formulary Recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance
Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public Health
To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Research and Evaluation
Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place
Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Collaborative Working Relationships
Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
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. CCGs)
Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team
Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to patients GP, nurses and other practice staff, other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.
Locality / GP prescribing lead/Locality managers/Community nurses and other allied health professionals/Community and hospital pharmacy teams/Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
Management
Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
Health and Safety/Risk Management
The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
Make appropriate recommendations for medicine improvement.
Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Patient Facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments
Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient Facing Medicines Support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Telephone Medicines Support
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines, suggesting and recommending solutions.
Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital Admissions
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat Prescribing
Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk Stratification
Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Service Development
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Information Management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines Quality Improvement
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Medicines Safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Implementation of Local and National Guidelines and Formulary Recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance
Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public Health
To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Research and Evaluation
Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature
Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place
Demonstrates understanding of principles of research governance.
Collaborative Working Relationships
Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
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. CCGs)
Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team
Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to patients GP, nurses and other practice staff, other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.
Locality / GP prescribing lead/Locality managers/Community nurses and other allied health professionals/Community and hospital pharmacy teams/Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
Management
Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
Health and Safety/Risk Management
The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
* Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
* Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
* Skills, Knowledge and Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
* Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
* Good IT skills
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
* Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
* Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Produce timely and informative reports
* 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
* Work effectively and independently and as a team member
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Person Specification
Essential
* Skills, Knowledge and Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
* Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
* Good IT skills
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
* Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
* Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Produce timely and informative reports
* 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
* Work effectively and independently and as a team member
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
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 (opens in a new window).
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 (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
GP First Ltd
Address
Stafford Health & Wellbeing
Whitgreave Court
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST16 3EB
Employer's website
https://www.gpfirst.net/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
GP First Ltd
Address
Stafford Health & Wellbeing
Whitgreave Court
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST16 3EB
Employer's website
https://www.gpfirst.net/ (Opens in a new tab)
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
* Industries
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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