Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Summary

To provide leadership and development for the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality, patient-centred clinical care.

Role

1. To lead and mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute to competency assessment, supervision and professional development
2. To provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries, electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements
3. To promote medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate monitoring for high-risk therapies
4. To help to translate national and local priorities into effective practice
5. To deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients, including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex needs
6. To run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including domiciliary or care-home visits where required
7. To lead audits, searches, quality‑improvement work, policies and protocols, using data to monitor impact and report progress
8. To work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy, hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient outcomes
9. To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness, public‑health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across member practices
10. To oversee key medicines related programmes

Responsibilities

• Clinical – Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including:
• Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients
• Long‑term condition management (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabetes)
• Medicines reconciliation post‑discharge
• Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety
• Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and other healthcare professionals on safe, evidence‑based and cost‑effective prescribing
• In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs, nurses and healthcare assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patient and adapt therapy where appropriate
• Address the day‑to‑day issues raised by patients / staff in relation to medicines management and escalated / investigate / prevent recurrence as necessary
• Competently manage and undertake patient clinics, organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patient follow‑ups and medicine optimisation
• Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamless integration of pharmacy into patient pathways

Leadership & Management

• Line manage, mentor and support the pharmacy workforce, ensuring role clarity, supervision, appraisal and continuous professional development (CPD)
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring and shared learning
• Engage in the recruitment, conduct or performance management of Pharmacy Team members, with the support of the PCN Manager
• Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

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