• Job Description

  Req#: B0262-25-0002?language=en&page=275&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are seeking self-motivated and forward-thinking pharmacists to join our well-established and successful team of thirteen pharmacists and three pharmacy technicians. You will work across our network providing dedicated support to general practice and our local population.

  The successful candidate will be well supported through shadowing, robust clinical supervision arrangements and clinical pharmacy team meetings to facilitate shared learning and good practice. The post holder will be supported with development and learning needs, including enrolment onto the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, and developing as an independent prescriber. The successful candidate will work alongside other clinicians as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

  Main duties of the job

  This is an exciting role which will contribute to the reshaping of neighbourhood care for our populations, directed and supported by the South Southwark Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to

  • support long-term condition management within the practice including medication reviews.
  • provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
  • provide support on prescription/medication queries and processes.
  • facilitate better working with community and hospital pharmacy.
  • Supervise foundation trainee pharmacists and undergraduate pharmacists

  Key responsibilities:

  Patient facing:

  • Long-term condition medicines, including de-prescribing. clinics
  • Medication reviews Hypertension, Asthma COPD,etc.
  • Management of care homes and house bounds) with multimorbidity and common/minor/self- polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes and order limiting ailments relevant monitoring tests.
  • Differential/nondifferential diagnosis

  Non-Patient Facing:

  • Medicines information with queries about medicines.
  • Audits
  • Medicines reconciliation rectifying unexplained changes
  • Signposting
  • Risk stratification
  • Service development / Collaborative working optimisation.
  • Medicines quality improvements
  • Medicines safety and clinical research
  • Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
  • Education and training

  About us

  Our South Southwark PCN is made up of eighteen GP Practices across four neighbourhoods - Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich, serving approximately 150,000 patients, supported by their GP Federation, Improving Health (IHL).

  The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

  Details

  Date posted

  07 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £47,000 to £53,000 a year depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  B0262-25-0002

  Job locations

  Cornerstone Studios

  1 Addington Square

  London

  SE5 7JZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title:South Southwark Primary Care Network Pharmacist

  Salary: £47,000 - £53,000 - Depending on experience

  Working Hours: Full-Time/Part Time

  Responsible to: Primary Care Network Neighbourhood

  Accountable to: Improving Health Ltd

  1. Background

  We are seeking self-motivated and forward-thinking pharmacists to join our well-established and successful team of thirteen pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians. You will work across our network providing dedicated support to general practice and our local population.

  The successful candidate will be well supported through shadowing, robust clinical supervision arrangements and clinical pharmacy team meetings to facilitate shared learning and good practice. The post holder will be supported with development and learning needs, including enrolment onto the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, and developing as an independent prescriber. The successful candidate will work alongside other clinicians as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

  Our South Southwark PCN is made up of eighteen GP Practices across four neighbourhoods - Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich, serving approximately 154,000 patients, supported by their GP Federation, Improving Health.

  The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

  2. Job summary

  This is an exciting role which will contribute to the reshaping of neighbourhood care for our populations, directed and supported by the South Southwark Primary Care Network. The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to

  • support long-term condition management within the practice including medication reviews.
  • provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
  • provide support on prescription/medication queries and processes.
  • facilitate better working with community and hospital pharmacy.
  • Supervise foundation trainee pharmacists and undergraduate pharmacists

  You will contribute to ongoing service developments, providing data and progress updates, and sharing insights into how the PCN could better support and care for its population.

  3. Key responsibilities

  Patient facing:

  • Long-term condition medicines, including de-prescribing. clinics
  • Medication reviews Hypertension, Asthma COPD, etc.
  • Management of care homes and house bounds) with multimorbidity and common/minor/self- polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes and order limiting ailments relevant monitoring tests.
  • Differential/nondifferential diagnosis

  Non-Patient Facing:

  • Medicines information with queries about medicines.
  • Audits
  • Medicines reconciliation rectifying unexplained changes
  • Signposting
  • Risk stratification
  • Service development / Collaborative working optimisation.
  • Medicines quality improvements
  • Medicines safety and clinical research
  • Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
  • Education and training

  Individual responsibilities

  The post holder has a responsibility to adhere to all IHL policies, procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies; maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role; attend mandatory training as identified by IHL and contribute to their own development.

  This is a summary of job description and should not be regarded as an inflexible specification. Priorities may change in line with service needs and new duties introduced after consultation with the post holder.

  Person Specification

  Essential

  Professional Registration

  • Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.

  Qualifications

  • Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent

  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 understanding of general practice and challenges they currently face.
  • An understanding 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
  • 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.
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
  • Produce timely and informative reports.
  • Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
  • Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
  • 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.

  Personal Qualities/other

  • Motivated, confident, and able to inspire a team.
  • An excellent communicator able to listen and engage with both professionals and patients in ways they will understand.
  • Adaptable and pro-active Ability to work on own initiative, able to plan, prioritise, make decisions, and meet deadlines.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills particularly with prescribers, older people, and carers
  • Ability to deal with difficult issues/situations with diplomacy and sensitivity.
  • Able to move easily between teams of general practice staff and different patient groups.
  • Ability to challenge poor processes and practice.
  • In date CRB
  • Safeguarding adult and children - level three
  • Immunisation status
  • Basic life support training

  Desirable:

  Professional Registration

  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

  Qualifications

  • Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.

  Personal Qualities/other

  • Information governance toolkit completion
  • Passionate about working in a learning environment and empowering people through education and personal development.

  Equality and Diversity

  • Recognising the rights of patients, carers, relatives, and colleagues and respecting their needs, beliefs, privacy, and dignity.
  • Not discriminating against patients, carers, relatives, or colleagues on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 or its amendments or later legislation.
  • Respecting the rights of patients to accept or refuse treatment or a care provider.

  Personal/Professional Development

  • Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
  • Participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN.
  • Continuing Professional Development in line with professional registration and identified within Personal Development Plan

  Confidentiality

  Confidentiality in relation to patient data must be maintained at all times. In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather sensitive information relating to their health or other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

  In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post holder may have access to information relating to patients and/or their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. The post holder may also have access to information relating to the Practice. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

  Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

  Health & Safety:

  The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practices Health and Safety policy, including use of personal security systems within the workplace, according to Practice guidelines, identifying risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in such a way as to manage those risks, making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, using appropriate infection control procedures and maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards and reporting potential risks when identified.

  DBS Disclosure

  This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You must therefore disclose all spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings. If you are offered the post, we will need to obtain a satisfactory DBS disclosure for you.

  The main duties and responsibilities shown above are not exhaustive but should merely be regarded as a guide. The post-holder will be expected to conduct any reasonable activities according to the business needs at that time. These will be subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the challenging needs of the business. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process and the company would aim to reach agreement to changes.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title:South Southwark Primary Care Network Pharmacist

  Salary: £47,000 - £53,000 - Depending on experience

  Working Hours: Full-Time/Part Time

  Responsible to: Primary Care Network Neighbourhood

  Accountable to: Improving Health Ltd

  1. Background

  We are seeking self-motivated and forward-thinking pharmacists to join our well-established and successful team of thirteen pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians. You will work across our network providing dedicated support to general practice and our local population.

  The successful candidate will be well supported through shadowing, robust clinical supervision arrangements and clinical pharmacy team meetings to facilitate shared learning and good practice. The post holder will be supported with development and learning needs, including enrolment onto the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, and developing as an independent prescriber. The successful candidate will work alongside other clinicians as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

  Our South Southwark PCN is made up of eighteen GP Practices across four neighbourhoods - Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich, serving approximately 154,000 patients, supported by their GP Federation, Improving Health.

  The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

  2. Job summary

  This is an exciting role which will contribute to the reshaping of neighbourhood care for our populations, directed and supported by the South Southwark Primary Care Network. The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to

  • support long-term condition management within the practice including medication reviews.
  • provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
  • provide support on prescription/medication queries and processes.
  • facilitate better working with community and hospital pharmacy.
  • Supervise foundation trainee pharmacists and undergraduate pharmacists

  You will contribute to ongoing service developments, providing data and progress updates, and sharing insights into how the PCN could better support and care for its population.

  3. Key responsibilities

  Patient facing:

  • Long-term condition medicines, including de-prescribing. clinics
  • Medication reviews Hypertension, Asthma COPD, etc.
  • Management of care homes and house bounds) with multimorbidity and common/minor/self- polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes and order limiting ailments relevant monitoring tests.
  • Differential/nondifferential diagnosis

  Non-Patient Facing:

  • Medicines information with queries about medicines.
  • Audits
  • Medicines reconciliation rectifying unexplained changes
  • Signposting
  • Risk stratification
  • Service development / Collaborative working optimisation.
  • Medicines quality improvements
  • Medicines safety and clinical research
  • Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
  • Education and training

  Individual responsibilities

  The post holder has a responsibility to adhere to all IHL policies, procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies; maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role; attend mandatory training as identified by IHL and contribute to their own development.

  This is a summary of job description and should not be regarded as an inflexible specification. Priorities may change in line with service needs and new duties introduced after consultation with the post holder.

  Person Specification

  Essential

  Professional Registration

  • Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.

  Qualifications

  • Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent

  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 understanding of general practice and challenges they currently face.
  • An understanding 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
  • 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.
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
  • Produce timely and informative reports.
  • Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
  • Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
  • 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.

  Personal Qualities/other

  • Motivated, confident, and able to inspire a team.
  • An excellent communicator able to listen and engage with both professionals and patients in ways they will understand.
  • Adaptable and pro-active Ability to work on own initiative, able to plan, prioritise, make decisions, and meet deadlines.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills particularly with prescribers, older people, and carers
  • Ability to deal with difficult issues/situations with diplomacy and sensitivity.
  • Able to move easily between teams of general practice staff and different patient groups.
  • Ability to challenge poor processes and practice.
  • In date CRB
  • Safeguarding adult and children - level three
  • Immunisation status
  • Basic life support training

  Desirable:

  Professional Registration

  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

  Qualifications

  • Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.

  Personal Qualities/other

  • Information governance toolkit completion
  • Passionate about working in a learning environment and empowering people through education and personal development.

  Equality and Diversity

  • Recognising the rights of patients, carers, relatives, and colleagues and respecting their needs, beliefs, privacy, and dignity.
  • Not discriminating against patients, carers, relatives, or colleagues on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 or its amendments or later legislation.
  • Respecting the rights of patients to accept or refuse treatment or a care provider.

  Personal/Professional Development

  • Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
  • Participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN.
  • Continuing Professional Development in line with professional registration and identified within Personal Development Plan

  Confidentiality

  Confidentiality in relation to patient data must be maintained at all times. In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather sensitive information relating to their health or other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

  In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post holder may have access to information relating to patients and/or their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. The post holder may also have access to information relating to the Practice. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

  Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

  Health & Safety:

  The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practices Health and Safety policy, including use of personal security systems within the workplace, according to Practice guidelines, identifying risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in such a way as to manage those risks, making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, using appropriate infection control procedures and maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards and reporting potential risks when identified.

  DBS Disclosure

  This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You must therefore disclose all spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings. If you are offered the post, we will need to obtain a satisfactory DBS disclosure for you.

  The main duties and responsibilities shown above are not exhaustive but should merely be regarded as a guide. The post-holder will be expected to conduct any reasonable activities according to the business needs at that time. These will be subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the challenging needs of the business. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process and the company would aim to reach agreement to changes.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • - Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.
  • - Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • - Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.
  • - 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

  Improving Health Limited

  Address

  Cornerstone Studios

  1 Addington Square

  London

  SE5 7JZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ihlsouthwark.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Improving Health Limited

  Address

  Cornerstone Studios

  1 Addington Square

  London

  SE5 7JZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ihlsouthwark.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• 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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