PCN Clinical Pharmacist in Dronfield

Join Our Team as a PCN Clinical Pharmacist. Are you a motivated Clinical Pharmacist looking to make a meaningful impact in primary care? Do you thrive in collaborative environments where your expertise is valued and your ideas shape the future of patient care? North East Derbyshire Primary Care Network Ltd is seeking a passionate and proactive Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic team to cover maternity. You will work across four forward-thinking GP practices delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

What We're Looking For:

• GPhC-registered pharmacist.
• Has gained or working towards the CPPE Pathway qualification (required for funding purposes).
• Experience in primary care or a strong desire to learn.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A forward-thinker who’s ready to challenge the status quo.

Main duties of the job:

• Conduct structured medication reviews and optimise prescribing for long-term conditions.
• Consult with patients to manage their long-term conditions.
• Promote safer prescribing practices and reduce medication-related harm.
• Use digital tools and audits to enhance clinical outcomes.
• Provide expert advice to patients and colleagues.
• Contribute to the evolution of pharmacy services in primary care.
• Work collaboratively across all practices to ensure consistent standards, shared learning, and seamless service delivery.

About us:

NED PCN is an organisational group of four proactive GP practices in North East Derbyshire. The Practices are Barlborough Medical Practice, Killamarsh Medical Practice, The Springs Medical Partnership and The Valleys Medical Partnership. NED PCN is a relatively small PCN with just over 40,000 patients. We feel that this makes us big enough to develop a successful team but small enough to be an approachable, friendly place to be.

The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.

Core practices opening hours of 8:00am - 6:30pm Monday to Friday each week.

If you would be interested in having a confidential informal discussion about this opportunity or for further details, please contact: Miss Sarah Buckley, PCN Manager or Mrs Donna Lymer.

Job responsibilities:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients.
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• Act as the PCN point of contact for all medicine related matters.
• Manage a caseload of complex patients.
• Deliver long term conditions clinics particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes.
• Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the PCN.
• Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so.

Person Specification:

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Effective time management.
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

Experience:

• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist.
• Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care.
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Qualifications:

• GPhC registered pharmacist.
• Has qualified from or working towards an approved training pathway.
• Minor ailments certification.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.