PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Overview

As a Clinical Pharmacist within the Mewstone PCN, you will deliver medicines optimisation, clinical reviews, and safe prescribing across several GP practices. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team to improve care quality and operational efficiency, with opportunities to pursue non-medical prescribing. You’ll contribute to public health initiatives and lead quality improvement through audits and service development. This role combines direct patient care with system-level prescribing support in a busy primary care network.

Pay / Benefits

• Permanent contract
• Flexible working
• Competitive salary (£46,148 to £52,809 per year)
• Supportive learning environment
• Opportunities for professional development
• Interdisciplinary team with mentoring

Responsibilities

• Conduct clinical medication reviews and provide prescribing recommendations to GPs and allied health professionals
• Manage medicines via transfer of care, repeat prescribing, and monitoring requirements
• Lead medicines safety, audits, and quality improvement initiatives within the PCN
• Deliver patient-facing clinics and telephone consultations about medicines
• Support public health programs and development of new medicinal services
• Collaborate with GPs, nurses, pharmacists, and wider team to ensure safe, effective prescribing
• Analyse prescribing data and maintain formulary compliance across practices
• Ensure regulatory and governance standards, including safeguarding and information governance, are met

Key requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Pharmacy
• GPhC registration
• Understanding of professional practice standards
• Desirable independent prescribing qualification or progression toward it
• Experience in general practice or PCN setting preferred
• DBS check and eligible for UK registration

• Highly motivated
• Team player
• Flexible
• Medicines optimisation
• Clinical medication reviews
• Audits and quality improvement

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