Senior Clinical Pharmacist IP – North East

Overview

In this role you will provide senior clinical leadership within primary care, guiding pharmacists and technicians to deliver high-quality patient care. You will lead, mentor and support PCN/practice teams, ensuring safe, effective medicines use and operational efficiency. The position offers remote work with a North East base, enabling collaboration across a nationwide network. You will shape clinical governance, training, and quality improvements to advance patient outcomes in general practice. This is an opportunity to drive impact in a growing, values-driven organisation.

Pay / Benefits

• GPhC fees paid
• DBS applications paid
• 5 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays
• health & wellbeing program
• company equipment (laptop, smart card reader)
• pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and line management to clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within PCNs/practices
• Maintain safe clinical rotas and manage staff logistics
• Recruitment support, interviews and onboarding
• Support trainee technicians with workload, training and progress tracking
• Write, approve and review documents, policies, protocols
• Deliver training and development resources (guides, SOPs, CPD signposting)
• Conduct monthly 1-2-1s, competency reviews and annual appraisals
• Quality assurance reviews of consultations and learning plans
• Assist with workload balancing and clinical queries across the team
• Support clinical sessions and progress reviews of PCN work streams
• Ensure adherence to high clinical standards, medicines reconciliation and complex medication reviews
• Auditing practice work streams for safety and improvement, align with guidelines
• Support local incentive schemes and QOF medication-related requirements
• Maintain Clinical Governance agenda, medicines safety and risk management
• Respond to patient/practice feedback and ensure CQC readiness
• Maintain GPhC registration and support revalidation processes
• Track mandatory training completion

Key requirements

• GPhC registration
• Independent Prescribing Qualification (essential)
• CPPE Pathway (essential)
• Leadership experience (desirable)
• UK professional registration (required)
• DBS check (desirable)

• leadership
• communication
• team collaboration
• medicines safety and pharmacovigilance
• clinical governance
• long term condition reviews

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