• Job Description

  Req#: U0090-25-0023?language=en&page=908&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Hackney Downs PCN in City and Hackney is seeking to recruit an experienced PCN Clinical Pharmacist to develop and support medicines optimisation work within the GP practices in the PCN covering a population of approximately 40,000.

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and work proactively with other healthcare professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team across the PCN.

  The successful candidate:

  will join a core Pharmacy Team and will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and a GP Supervisor

  will be covering only 2 practices which are located in the same building/site so no travel between surgeries needed

  entitled to re-imbursement of basic annual indemnity insurance

  will have another pharmacist with experience already working in both practices to support

  will be welcomed to do the independent prescribing course with us (if already finished CPPE/nearing the end), regular development sessions, teaching, training and opportunities to upskill will be provided

  will have support via monthly group meeting with senior pharmacist

  We have a well-structured pharmacy team in Hackney Downs which is currently comprised of 6 pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians across the PCN.

  Clinical Pharmacists have a key role in supporting delivery of the new network contract Directly Enhanced Service (DES) specifications including Extended Access.

  About us

  Groups of GP Practices in City and Hackney have come together to form 8 Primary Care Networks (PCNS) each covering a total population of between 30,000-56,000. The purpose of these PCNs is to enable GP practices to work together in a collaborative way to develop and deliver network-based services that respond to the needs of the local population.

  Details

  Date posted

  15 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience £47,000 pro rata(inclusive of ILW) Depending on Experience

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  U0090-25-0023

  Job locations

  The Riverside Practice

  Theydon Road

  London

  E5 9BQ

  
  

  Nightingale Practice

  10 Kenninghall Road

  London

  E5 8BY

  
  

  Fountayne Road Health Centre

  Fountayne Road

  London

  N16 7EA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will:

  work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines to support the management of acute and long-term conditions

  be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team;

  be responsible for the management of patients with long term conditions and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly and those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);

  provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities;

  provide leadership in the practice on medicines optimisation systems and processes and quality improvement

  contribute to meeting the Quality and outcomes Framework (QoF) targets, enhanced services and the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) indicators

  through Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), support to improve the patients knowledge of their conditions and associated treatments and therefore improve adherence to medication, reduce waste and promote selfcare.

  Have a lead role in supporting integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) as part of the pharmacy integration agenda to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;

  build relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system;

  take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning disabilities).

  Key aspects of PCN pharmacist role

  Patient facing role undertaking face to face medications reviews for:

  patients with long term conditions on polypharmacy

  housebound patients

  chronic disease management areas identified as a priority area within the PCN

  Review patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.

  Review on-going need for each medicine, assess monitoring requirements and support patients to ensure treatment is safe, appropriate and optimised for maximum clinical benefit.

  Discuss recommendations and outcomes with relevant members of the PCN team and provide appropriate and timely follow up.

  Support patients to optimise medicines by providing additional written patient information leaflets, and liaise with community pharmacists about the need for special requirements to aid adherence.

  Management of Common/Minor Ailments

  Support practices in improving patient access for minor ailments and acute presentations.

  Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients to community pharmacy led services e.g. hypertension case finding, new medicines service etc.

  Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients

  Support resolution of medicines queries from the practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients.

  Provide medicines optimisation updates at clinical meetings onto inform and improve prescribing within the practice.

  Analyse, interpret and present relevant prescribing data, including audit findings, to practice staff regularly to highlight prescribing issues.

  Communicate recommended actions relating to medication and medical device safety alerts.

  Medicines Reconciliation

  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 resolve medication issues upon discharge to ensure a seamless transfer of care for the patient.

  Commissioned improvements for QIPP and medicines optimisation

  Support the practice and the PCN in delivering the outcomes as required in the medicines section of the Clinical Commissioning Contract

  Signposting

  Be fully aware of the vast array of services available to support patients and signpost patients and refer appropriately e.g. social prescriber, specialist referral etc.

  Repeat Prescribing

  Review, implement and support adherence to the practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions, flagging up those patients needing a review.

  Ensure patients on repeat prescriptions have the required monitoring and assessments undertaken as appropriate to their condition(s) and medicines prescribed.

  Clinical Governance

  Communicate, action and support implementation of MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.

  Undertake clinical audits in priority areas identified by the Medicines Optimisation Team or within the PCN and feedback results to practices and the PCN and support them in implementing recommendations.

  Support practices and PCNs in identifying and reporting onto NRLS any incidents relating to medicines. Be involved in investigating medicines incidents and identifying and implementing any required system improvements.

  Support implementation of shared care protocols in practice, including processes to improve monitoring of high- risk drugs.

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Education and Training

  Contribute to the provision of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider ICB geography, including the PCN pharmacy professional network meetings.

  Public Health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist advice on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  General

  Undertake any other work supporting medicines optimisation in GP practices and the PCN commensurate with the banding of the post and which is agreed between the postholder and the manager.

  Key Collaborative Working Relationships

  The post-holder will be required to work with a wide range of stakeholders. It is important that the post holder recognises the roles of other colleagues to person-centred care, and liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including:

  Patients and Patient Participation Groups (PPGs)

  GPs, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams, dieticians etc.

  Locality / GP prescribing lead and Locality managers

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Integration between general practice community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Ability to work as a member of a team within the PCN

  Collaboration with network resources to support care management plans and social prescribing

  Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required (please see attached Person Specification)

  Has experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.

  Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.

  Holds an independent prescribing qualification, is working towards a qualification or has the intention to complete this in the future.

  Demonstrates an understanding of the role of a clinical pharmacist within primary care and where it fits into and how it complements the practice team and the wider PCN team.

  Accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

  Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

  Health and Safety/Risk Management

  An expectation is for all staff to have a commitment to promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy environment and be responsible for their own and others welfare. In addition, staff will be expected to undertake the statutory mandatory health and safety training and other training relevant to their specialist area of work.

  Equality and Diversity

  The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and complete the required statutory mandatory training.

  Patient Confidentiality

  The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

  In view of the nature of the role, this job description is intended to provide an outline of the duties and responsibilities; it will be subject to review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will:

  work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines to support the management of acute and long-term conditions

  be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team;

  be responsible for the management of patients with long term conditions and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly and those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);

  provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities;

  provide leadership in the practice on medicines optimisation systems and processes and quality improvement

  contribute to meeting the Quality and outcomes Framework (QoF) targets, enhanced services and the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) indicators

  through Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), support to improve the patients knowledge of their conditions and associated treatments and therefore improve adherence to medication, reduce waste and promote selfcare.

  Have a lead role in supporting integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) as part of the pharmacy integration agenda to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;

  build relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system;

  take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning disabilities).

  Key aspects of PCN pharmacist role

  Patient facing role undertaking face to face medications reviews for:

  patients with long term conditions on polypharmacy

  housebound patients

  chronic disease management areas identified as a priority area within the PCN

  Review patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.

  Review on-going need for each medicine, assess monitoring requirements and support patients to ensure treatment is safe, appropriate and optimised for maximum clinical benefit.

  Discuss recommendations and outcomes with relevant members of the PCN team and provide appropriate and timely follow up.

  Support patients to optimise medicines by providing additional written patient information leaflets, and liaise with community pharmacists about the need for special requirements to aid adherence.

  Management of Common/Minor Ailments

  Support practices in improving patient access for minor ailments and acute presentations.

  Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients to community pharmacy led services e.g. hypertension case finding, new medicines service etc.

  Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients

  Support resolution of medicines queries from the practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients.

  Provide medicines optimisation updates at clinical meetings onto inform and improve prescribing within the practice.

  Analyse, interpret and present relevant prescribing data, including audit findings, to practice staff regularly to highlight prescribing issues.

  Communicate recommended actions relating to medication and medical device safety alerts.

  Medicines Reconciliation

  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 resolve medication issues upon discharge to ensure a seamless transfer of care for the patient.

  Commissioned improvements for QIPP and medicines optimisation

  Support the practice and the PCN in delivering the outcomes as required in the medicines section of the Clinical Commissioning Contract

  Signposting

  Be fully aware of the vast array of services available to support patients and signpost patients and refer appropriately e.g. social prescriber, specialist referral etc.

  Repeat Prescribing

  Review, implement and support adherence to the practice repeat prescribing policy.

  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions, flagging up those patients needing a review.

  Ensure patients on repeat prescriptions have the required monitoring and assessments undertaken as appropriate to their condition(s) and medicines prescribed.

  Clinical Governance

  Communicate, action and support implementation of MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.

  Undertake clinical audits in priority areas identified by the Medicines Optimisation Team or within the PCN and feedback results to practices and the PCN and support them in implementing recommendations.

  Support practices and PCNs in identifying and reporting onto NRLS any incidents relating to medicines. Be involved in investigating medicines incidents and identifying and implementing any required system improvements.

  Support implementation of shared care protocols in practice, including processes to improve monitoring of high- risk drugs.

  Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

  Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches

  Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

  Education and Training

  Contribute to the provision of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider ICB geography, including the PCN pharmacy professional network meetings.

  Public Health

  To support public health campaigns.

  To provide specialist advice on all public health programmes available to the general public.

  General

  Undertake any other work supporting medicines optimisation in GP practices and the PCN commensurate with the banding of the post and which is agreed between the postholder and the manager.

  Key Collaborative Working Relationships

  The post-holder will be required to work with a wide range of stakeholders. It is important that the post holder recognises the roles of other colleagues to person-centred care, and liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including:

  Patients and Patient Participation Groups (PPGs)

  GPs, nurses and other practice staff

  Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams, dieticians etc.

  Locality / GP prescribing lead and Locality managers

  Community nurses and other allied health professionals

  Integration between general practice community and hospital pharmacy teams

  Ability to work as a member of a team within the PCN

  Collaboration with network resources to support care management plans and social prescribing

  Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required (please see attached Person Specification)

  Has experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.

  Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.

  Holds an independent prescribing qualification, is working towards a qualification or has the intention to complete this in the future.

  Demonstrates an understanding of the role of a clinical pharmacist within primary care and where it fits into and how it complements the practice team and the wider PCN team.

  Accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

  Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

  Health and Safety/Risk Management

  An expectation is for all staff to have a commitment to promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy environment and be responsible for their own and others welfare. In addition, staff will be expected to undertake the statutory mandatory health and safety training and other training relevant to their specialist area of work.

  Equality and Diversity

  The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and complete the required statutory mandatory training.

  Patient Confidentiality

  The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

  In view of the nature of the role, this job description is intended to provide an outline of the duties and responsibilities; it will be subject to review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years postqualification experience

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years postqualification experience

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

  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

  City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC

  Address

  The Riverside Practice

  Theydon Road

  London

  E5 9BQ

  Employer details

  Employer name

  City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC

  Address

  The Riverside Practice

  Theydon Road

  London

  E5 9BQ

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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