PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist in Wellington

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 12/03/2026

About this job

The following is not an exhaustive list and the post holder may at times need to undertake duties as per the needs of the PCN.

• Lead a team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team providing support to team members and ensure there is appropriate clinical supervision in place for all pharmacists.
• Undertake clinical supervision and systematic peer caseload review of colleagues on an individual or group basis.
• Ensure all pharmacists are engaged with the review and appraisal systems within the PCN.
• Act as a role model demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis and promote the behaviours of being proactive, positive, respectful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy.
• Conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague.
• Understand the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service and manage the team of Clinical Pharmacists through these changes.
• Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice acting on results thereby ensuring safe delivery of care.
• Follow professional and organisational policies and procedures relating to performance management.
• Participate in maintaining systems for risk assessment and minimisation including promoting a fair blame culture in order that near misses and incidents are reported and investigated.
• Contribute to investigation of incidents and complaints when required; participate in identifying lessons learnt and the sharing of learning across the organisation.
• Ensure dignity, privacy and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times.
• Continually monitor standards of care through quality markers, achievement of PCN targets and benchmarking.
• Be aware of local quality data and use it to identify practice development required.
• Work proactively in managing change in own speciality to improve practice and health outcomes.
• Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing and medicines optimisation.
• Conduct clinical audits and improve projects or work with colleagues such as PCN staff, Practice staff etc.
• Present results and provide leadership on suggested changes.

• Conduct patient-facing long-term condition clinics e.g. COPD, asthma ensuring medicine optimisation and ongoing medication monitoring.
• Undertake structured clinical medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, multiple comorbidities or specific clinical needs.
• Carry out medication reviews in care homes working closely with staff to improve safety in medicines ordering and administration.
• Perform domiciliary medication reviews attending and referring patients to multidisciplinary case conferences when appropriate.
• Manage a caseload of patients presenting with minor self-limiting conditions within clinical competence referring where needed.
• Run face-to-face and telephone clinics to support patients with medicine-related concerns or queries.

• Act on acute and repeat prescription requests ensuring appropriate authorisation, monitoring and safety.
• Reconcile medications following discharge from hospitals, care homes or intermediate care identifying discrepancies and ensuring continuity.
• Analyse use of high-risk medicines linked to unplanned admissions and implement prescribing changes to reduce risk.
• Monitor and action prescribing alerts from the MHRA, local medicines optimisation teams or formulary updates.
• Implement and audit practice compliance with local/national prescribing guidelines and NICE technology appraisals.

• Identify patients at risk of medicine-related harm using clinical systems and data analysis tools.
• Carry out clinical audits and quality improvement projects in priority prescribing areas.
• Provide advice and input into practice-level formulary decisions and maintain formulary compliance.
• Develop and implement repeat prescribing policies including managing reauthorisations and monitoring test requirements.

• Respond to complex medicine-related queries from GPs, practice staff, community pharmacists and patients.
• Provide follow-up to patients after medication changes to monitor response and manage concerns.
• Support patients post-discharge to understand and use their medicines effectively.

• Provide clinical leadership in medicines optimisation across the practice/PCN.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of services involving medicines e.g. treatment pathways.
• Analyse and present prescribing data to inform decision-making and improve safety.
• Participate in local medicines management groups or committees as needed.

• Deliver education and training sessions to practice staff on therapeutics, prescribing safety and medicines optimisation.
• Promote a learning culture around prescribing and medicines use within the PCN.

• Support practices in meeting CQC requirements where medicines and prescribing are involved.
• Ensure adherence to best practice and governance standards related to medicines use and storage.

• Support national and local public health campaigns e.g. vaccinations, smoking cessation.
• Provide expert advice on public health initiatives relevant to medicines and therapeutic interventions.

• Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional or service in a timely and effective manner.
• Foster strong links between general practice, community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy teams to ensure cohesive care and efficient skill mix utilisation.

• To act at all times in an anti-discriminatory manner.
• To be able to plan and respond to workload according to operational priorities.
• To support the delivery of these functions across wider locality areas where necessary.
• To undertake any training required in order to maintain competency including mandatory training.
• To contribute to and work within a safe working environment.
• To take responsibility for self-development on a continuous basis undertaking on-the-job training as required.
• To be aware of individual responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report as necessary any untoward accident, incident or potentially hazardous environment.

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that employees will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description you may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, PCN and practice employees and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to the PCN and practices as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the PCN or the practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

The post-holder must always comply with the organisation and Practices Health and Safety policies in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System. The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act 1984, The General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and the Access to Health Records Act 1990. The post-holder will comply with all necessary training requirements relevant to the role as identified by the organisation; in particular the post holder must complete the specified care coordinator training delivered by the Personalised Care Institute.

The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

Recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.