Clinical PharmacistNHS
Job summary
4Doncaster PCN is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding Primary Care Network team.
You must be a qualified Clinical Pharmacist and be registered with GPhC.
The post-holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary workforce to improve patient care and support the effective use of medicines across our network of practices.
The Clinical Pharmacist will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, high-risk medicines and long-term conditions.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients with long-term conditions, frailty, or high-risk prescribing.
- Support the repeat prescribing process and medicines reconciliation post-discharge or transfer of care.
- Provide specialist clinical advice on all aspects of medicines management to GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
- Contribute to the achievement of PCN service requirements, QOF, and other quality improvement initiatives.
- Support the delivery of national and local prescribing guidelines and formulary adherence.
- Assist in auditing, reporting and implementing safe prescribing practices in line with CQC and NHS England standards.
- Lead in the reduction of prescribing of antibiotics, over the counter medicines and high cost medicines.
- Where qualified, act as an Independent Prescriber to manage patients directly within own scope of competence.
- Be responsible for the clinical supervision of the Pharmacy Technicians
A requirement of this role is to complete the Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway which is 12 - 18 months duration.
This role requires you to work on site with the wider team.
Set hours for this post:
Monday 9:00am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:00am - 5:30pm
Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 8th September 2026.
If you have not heard from us by 11/09/2026 please assume that you have not been successful.
Job description
- The Clinical Pharmacist will:
- Undertake structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients with long-term conditions, frailty, or high-risk prescribing.
- Support the repeat prescribing process and medicines reconciliation post-discharge or transfer of care.
- Provide specialist clinical advice on all aspects of medicines management to GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
- Contribute to the achievement of PCN service requirements, QOF, and other quality improvement initiatives.
- Support the delivery of national and local prescribing guidelines and formulary adherence.
- Assist in auditing, reporting and implementing safe prescribing practices in line with CQC and NHS England standards.
- Lead in the reduction of prescribing of antibiotics, over the counter medicines and high cost medicines.
- Where qualified, act as an Independent Prescriber to manage patients directly within own scope of competence.
- Be responsible for the clinical supervision of the Pharmacy Technicians
About us
The 4Doncaster Primary Care Network was established by four practices situated in central Doncaster:
The Burns Medical Practice
The Kingthorne Group Practice
The Mount Group Practice
The St Vincent Practice
The network population is approximately 63000 patients across the four practices. The practices have come together as a network in order to be able to respond in a flexible and responsive manner to changes taking place in the NHS.
The establishment of the 4Doncaster network has enabled the recruitment of additional staff, including Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, MSK Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Mental Health Practitioners, Care Coordinators and Health & Wellbeing Coaches.
We now want to recruit another Pharmacist to join our team.