PCN Clinical Pharmacist-Hackney Marshes PCN

Job summaryOur practices are looking for a
highly motivated and enthusiastic full-time clinical pharmacist to join our
clinical team and work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a fully patient-facing
role.This is an exciting opportunity for a
Clinical Pharmacist to join an established medicines team within the PCN
footprint. You will be based across 2 to 3 practices so you will have the
opportunity to build up relationships with the primary care team. The role will be supported by a lead Clinical
Pharmacist in our PCN. There are regular teaching sessions, and all our
practices are engaged in ensuring the role is optimised and developed.We are keen to hear
from pharmacists of all backgrounds and level of experience, whether you have
already completed or would like to complete the independent prescriber (IP)
qualification.Main duties of the jobThe 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. Regular development
sessions, teaching, training and opportunities to upskill will be provided.Clinical pharmacists have a key
role in supporting delivery of the new network contract Directly Enhanced
Service (DES) specifications.The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will
need to be committed to improving health and putting patients first. Key qualities will be the ability to build
effective relationships with patients, GPs, nurses, community pharmacists,
hospital and practice staff, and to work effectively as part of a team.
Demonstrable general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas,
including long term conditions, together with a good understanding of general
practice are essential.About usHackney Marshes
PCN comprises of five GP practices: Lower Clapton General Practice, The Lea
Surgery, Latimer Health Centre, Athena Medical Centre, and Kingsmead Medical
Centre with a combined list size of 42,470.We support a
patient population within an area of high social deprivation with the aim to
deliver higher quality care leading to better experience and outcomes. This is
a truly exciting time to be working in Primary Care in Hackney, we hope you
will consider joining us to be a part of our exciting and innovative team.DetailsDate posted17 September 2026Pay schemeOtherSalary
48,000 to 56,000 a year
ContractPermanentWorking pattern

Full-time

Reference numberU Job locationsThe Lea SurgeryGround Floor, Alfred Heath Centre186 Homerton High StreetLondonE9 6AGUnited KingdomAthena Medical Centre21 Atherden RoadLONDONE5 0QPUnited KingdomLower Clapton General Practice34 Linscott RoadLONDONE5 0RDUnited KingdomLatimer Health Centre4 Homerton TerraceLONDONE9 6RTUnited KingdomKingsmead Medical Centre4 Kingsmead WayLONDONE9 5QGUnited KingdomJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe 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 for specific disease areas;
be a prescriber, or completing training to
become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team;
be responsible for the care management of
patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to
proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly,
people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular
frailty, COPD and asthma) 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 on person-centred medicines
optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve
antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality
improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and
enhanced services;
through structured medication reviews, support
patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and
promote selfcare;
have a leadership role in supporting further
integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including
community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure
better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;
develop 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 difficulties), liaison with community
pharmacists and anticoagulation.Key aspects of PCN
pharmacist rolePatient facing role undertaking face to face structured
medications reviews for: patients on complex polypharmacy with long term
conditions housebound patients specific disease 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/Self-Limiting Ailments
Support practices in improving patient access for minor
ailments and acute presentations.
Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients
to community pharmacies in line with national guidance on over the counter
medicines.Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients
Support relevant medicine-related enquiries from the
practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients. Update practice teams at weekly meetings on current
medicines related information and issues with a view to educating and
improving prescribing within the practice. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data 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 ensure patients receive the medicines
they need post discharge.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 SignpostingEnsure that patients are
referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for specialist referral,
monitoring and/or referred to the social prescriber for further support
services where required.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 and reviewing
medicines reaching review dates and 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 CCG medicines management 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 pre-prepared practice computer searches e.g. using
PINCER and other tools. Work with the general practice team to ensure the
practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.Education and
TrainingContribute to the provision
of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic
areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider CCG
geography.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 CCG
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 prescribingKnowledge, 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
dynamic 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 responsibilitiesThe 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 for specific disease areas;
be a prescriber, or completing training to
become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team;
be responsible for the care management of
patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to
proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly,
people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular
frailty, COPD and asthma) 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 on person-centred medicines
optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve
antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality
improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and
enhanced services;
through structured medication reviews, support
patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and
promote selfcare;
have a leadership role in supporting further
integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including
community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure
better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;
develop 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 difficulties), liaison with community
pharmacists and anticoagulation.Key aspects of PCN
pharmacist rolePatient facing role undertaking face to face structured
medications reviews for: patients on complex polypharmacy with long term
conditions housebound patients specific disease 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/Self-Limiting Ailments
Support practices in improving patient access for minor
ailments and acute presentations.
Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients
to community pharmacies in line with national guidance on over the counter
medicines.Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients
Support relevant medicine-related enquiries from the
practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients. Update practice teams at weekly meetings on current
medicines related information and issues with a view to educating and
improving prescribing within the practice. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data 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 ensure patients receive the medicines
they need post discharge.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 SignpostingEnsure that patients are
referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for specialist referral,
monitoring and/or referred to the social prescriber for further support
services where required.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 and reviewing
medicines reaching review dates and 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 CCG medicines management 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 pre-prepared practice computer searches e.g. using
PINCER and other tools. Work with the general practice team to ensure the
practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.Education and
TrainingContribute to the provision
of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic
areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider CCG
geography.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 CCG
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 prescribingKnowledge, 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
dynamic 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
Qualifications
EssentialRegistered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical CouncilMasters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent) Enrolled on or willingness to complete the CPPE Primary care Pharmacy Education pathway
Experience
EssentialMinimum of 2 years postqualification experience
Person Specification

Qualifications
EssentialRegistered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical CouncilMasters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent) Enrolled on or willingness to complete the CPPE Primary care Pharmacy Education pathway
Experience
EssentialMinimum of 2 years postqualification experienceDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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
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Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 detailsEmployer nameCity & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CICAddressThe Lea SurgeryGround Floor, Alfred Heath Centre186 Homerton High StreetLondonE9 6AGUnited KingdomEmployer detailsEmployer nameCity & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CICAddressThe Lea SurgeryGround Floor, Alfred Heath Centre186 Homerton High StreetLondonE9 6AGUnited Kingdom