• Job Description

  Req#: A5697-25-0000?language=en&page=156&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  North Riding Primary Care Network are seeking a dedicated and forward-thinking Clinical Pharmacist to join our innovative and friendly team. Working across our network of GP practices, you'll play a vital role in improving patient care, medicines optimisation, and supporting long-term condition management in a setting that values continuity and connection.

  North Riding spans across the following four GP Practices:

  - Ampleforth and Hovingham Surgeries

  - Derwent Practice, Malton

  - Sherburn and Rillington Medical Surgeries

  - Ayton and Snainton Medical Practice

  The post holder will:

  -provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.

  - help support the repeat prescription system

  - deal with acute prescription requests, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing

  -manage patients with complex polypharmacy

  - provide expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).

  They will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload.

  Main duties of the job

  Main duties of the job

  Overview:

  - Clinical medication reviews with patients

  - Patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

  - Aid the PCN to deliver vaccination programmes as necessary.

  - Telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.

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

  - 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.

  - Refer patients to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time

  -Contribute to the production of and implement a PCN repeat prescribing policy and formulary.

  -Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

  -Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components

  Please Note: This is an overview - Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.

  About us

  North Riding Primary Care Network was founded in 2019 and has four member practices. We are located on the edge of the North York Moors National Park and our member practices are Ayton and Snainton Medical Practice, Ampleforth and Hovingham Surgeries, Derwent Practice and Sherburn and Rillington Medical Practice. We provide care to an overall patient population of 39,000. Each member practice has a CQC rating of good in all areas and 3 out of the 4 practices are rural dispensing practices. Our aim is to deliver high quality services for our patients, facilitated by working collaboratively, to better respond to the needs of our local population. We are building a multi-disciplinary clinical team to support our practices and offer new services to our patients. If you are interested in joining our team we would love to hear from you.

  Please ask for more information if you are unfamiliar with the locality of the practices or have any concerns about travel to them. The PCN will endeavor to be flexible and accommodate successful applicants with preferred practices, where possible.

  Details

  Date posted

  08 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Flexible working

  Reference number

  A5697-25-0000

  Job locations

  Ampleforth Surgery, Back Lane

  Ampleforth

  York

  North Yorkshire

  YO62 4EF

  
  

  The Surgery

  Pickering Road

  West Ayton

  Scarborough

  North Yorkshire

  YO13 9JF

  
  

  Derwent Surgery

  Norton Road

  Norton

  Malton

  North Yorkshire

  YO17 9RF

  
  

  Sherburn & Rillington Practice

  50 St. Hildas Street

  Sherburn

  Malton

  North Yorkshire

  YO17 8PH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see associated job description for full details.

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinical colleagues on prescribing and monitoring.

  Patient facing care home medication r eviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinical colleagues on prescribing and monitoring.

  Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

  Patient facing support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those withquestions, queries and concerns about theirmedicines in the practice.

  Aid the PCN to deliver vaccination programmes as necessary.

  Telephone medicines support

  Provide a telephone support 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 associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions 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 dischargefrom 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, acuteconditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat and acute prescribing

  Contribute to the production of and implement a PCN repeat prescribing policy and formulary. 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. Review acute medication query requests and make recommendations to the GPs

  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.

  Implementation of local and nationalguidelines and formularyrecommendations

  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.

  Education and Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  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.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see associated job description for full details.

  Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinical colleagues on prescribing and monitoring.

  Patient facing care home medication r eviews

  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinical colleagues on prescribing and monitoring.

  Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

  Patient facing support

  Provide patient facing clinics for those withquestions, queries and concerns about theirmedicines in the practice.

  Aid the PCN to deliver vaccination programmes as necessary.

  Telephone medicines support

  Provide a telephone support 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 associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions 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 dischargefrom 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, acuteconditions, long term condition reviews etc.

  Repeat and acute prescribing

  Contribute to the production of and implement a PCN repeat prescribing policy and formulary. 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. Review acute medication query requests and make recommendations to the GPs

  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.

  Implementation of local and nationalguidelines and formularyrecommendations

  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.

  Education and Training

  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

  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.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • - Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • - Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

  Desirable

  • - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • - Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • - Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
  • - Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

  Experience

  Essential

  • - Evidence of continued CPD
  • - 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 independently and as a team member
  • - Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

  Desirable

  • - Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
  • - In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.

  Additional

  Essential

  • - Full Driving Licence
  • - Use of own transport
  • - In date DBS
  • - Safeguarding adult and children level three (training will be given)
  • - Basic life support training (training will be given)
  • - Adaptable

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • - Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • - Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

  Desirable

  • - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • - Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • - Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
  • - Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

  Experience

  Essential

  • - Evidence of continued CPD
  • - 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 independently and as a team member
  • - Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

  Desirable

  • - Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
  • - In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.

  Additional

  Essential

  • - Full Driving Licence
  • - Use of own transport
  • - In date DBS
  • - Safeguarding adult and children level three (training will be given)
  • - Basic life support training (training will be given)
  • - Adaptable

  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

  North Riding Primary Care Network

  Address

  Ampleforth Surgery, Back Lane

  Ampleforth

  York

  North Yorkshire

  YO62 4EF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ampleforth-surgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  North Riding Primary Care Network

  Address

  Ampleforth Surgery, Back Lane

  Ampleforth

  York

  North Yorkshire

  YO62 4EF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ampleforth-surgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

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