PCN Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist looking to make a real difference in primary care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join Droitwich, Ombersley & the Rurals Primary Care Network, working across Spa Medical Practice and Chaddesley Corbett Surgery. As part of our established multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, safe and evidence-based medicines optimisation services to our patient population.

You will work closely with GPs, nurses, community pharmacists and the wider multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes through structured medication reviews, optimisation of long-term condition management, reducing medicines-related harm, supporting safe prescribing, and delivering personalised care. The role offers a varied workload including medication reviews, medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, prescribing quality improvement, clinical audit, and supporting patients with complex health needs.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills while contributing to innovative models of neighbourhood healthcare, helping to reduce health inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of our local communities. You will be supported by an experienced Pharmacist Lead and have access to continuing professional development within a collaborative and forward-thinking Primary Care Network.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team across Spa Medical Practice and Chaddesley Corbett Surgery, delivering high-quality, patient-centred medicines optimisation services. You will undertake structured medication reviews, support the safe and effective use of medicines, manage long-term conditions, reconcile medicines following hospital discharge, and provide expert prescribing advice to clinicians and patients. The role includes improving prescribing quality and safety through audit and quality improvement initiatives, supporting patients with complex health needs and polypharmacy, contributing to multidisciplinary care planning, and working collaboratively with community pharmacy, secondary care and wider health and care partners to improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Job description

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide expertise in clinical medicines, review and address public health and social needs of patients in the Practice.

Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review.

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.

Oversee and support the dispensary function of the Practice.

Oversee the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, including reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA (PLAN DO STUDY ACT) cycles.

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g., MHRA, aimed at improving medicines safety.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.

Work with Commissioning organisations and Vertis Health to comply with local medicines optimisation schemes and projects.

Support and hold clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g., asthma clinics.

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g., around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g., around out of stocks)

Ultimately to undertake minor ailments triage, deal with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.

Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups such as:

• Frail elderly
• Polypharmacy
• Renal impairment
• Hepatic impairment
• Asthma, diabetes, hypertension and Rheumatoid and Dmard drug monitoring
• Substance misuse
• Patients on high-risk medicines
• STOPP/START identified patients.
• Revolving door Hospital admissions

Management support for the dispensary including profitability and stock control; negotiations with drug company representatives and wholesalers; and organisational management including review of SOPS (Standard Operating Procedures) and compliance issues.

Ensure the Practice continues to participate in, and meet the requirements of, the local DSQS (Dispensing Services Quality Scheme)

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice.

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across the patient population, e.g., where a drug is withdrawn or indications change.

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR (Medication Use Reviews) and NMS (New Medicine Service).

Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change.

Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g., temporary non-availability of drugs

Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.

Lead for medicines optimisation scheme compliance, including care home support; discharge reviews; medication reviews; and QIPP.

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About us

About Vertis Health

We are a federation of GP surgeries and PCNs in Worcestershire, serving over 600,000 NHS patients through a variety of local services. Our community of GPs are our stakeholders, meaning we are powered by the community we have created - and our goal is to find ways to make it easier for them to spend less time and money on administrative workload, and more time with their patients.

Our GP surgeries remain independent while keeping the benefits of being part of a larger organisation - and we exist to protect the interests of our members through advocacy, business support, and revenue generation.

We are ambitious about growth in our network - and so, our diversified services help our PCNs to reinvest in vital local healthcare initiatives, providing a sustainable future for their communities in the long term.

About Droitwich Ombersley & the Rurals Primary Care Network

Droitwich, Ombersley & The Rurals PCN consists of 7 practices, based across South Worcestershire, serving 57,000 patients. We aim to offer and deliver excellent, safe, co-ordinated, high quality patient care. Continuously learning, evolving, and implementing new models of care, to create inclusion, reduce health inequalities and health improve outcomes.

We work hard to promote a culture where staff feel engaged, valued, and recognised by the organisation and the others they work with.