PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary
The Role
You'll be part of the practice-based pharmacy team at Churchmere Medical Group, embedded in the practice team, known to your GPs and your patients, and taking genuine clinical ownership of the medicines work that keeps a busy general practice running safely and well.

You'll be employed by North Shropshire PCN and supported by a leadership team that includes a pharmacist Clinical Director. You'll also be part of a wider PCN pharmacy team of eight pharmacists and six pharmacy technicians.

Full time preferred; part time considered.

What We Offer

• Salary of £47,220 to £59,814 dependent on experience, prescribing status and CPPE pathway completion
• Direct employment by North Shropshire PCN with a stable, supportive employment framework
• A named practice base, consistent colleagues, consistent patients, genuine continuity
• Support from a pharmacist clinical director and an established practice-based pharmacy team
• Active support towards independent prescribing qualification where not already held
• Membership of a wider PCN pharmacy team of eight pharmacists and six technicians
• Annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• A role where your clinical expertise is expected, valued and put to use every day

Main duties of the job
You'll join an established team with two PCN pharmacists already supporting Churchmere, largely remotely, alongside pharmacy technicians and dedicated medicines admin support. Your role is different: a named practice base, on site and face to face with patients and colleagues. You'll work in close partnership with the wider pharmacy team, the GPs and the whole practice team to deliver better, safer outcomes for patients. Your clinical knowledge and judgement will be used every day and expected every day.

Where you hold an independent prescribing qualification, you'll use it. Where you're working towards one, we'll support you to get there.

About us
North Shropshire PCN brings together six GP practices serving around 90,000 patients across North Shropshire. We're a close-knit network with a genuine commitment to doing things well, and we're investing seriously in our pharmacy team as part of that.

You'll join a pharmacy team of six pharmacists and five pharmacy technicians, employed directly by the PCN and supported by a leadership structure that understands what you do and the skills that you bring.

Our team has years of GP pharmacy experience at its disposal. You'll have people around you who can support your development, understand your challenges, and help you work at the top of your clinical capability.

Being PCN-employed means you get the stability and employment benefits of a larger organisation, while remaining embedded in a single practice with consistent colleagues and patients. You're part of a team, not a lone clinician placed into a surgery and left to get on with it.

We offer a salary of £47,220 to £59,814 depending on experience and prescribing status, and we're committed to supporting pharmacists who are working towards their independent prescribing qualification.

If you want to work somewhere that values what a pharmacist can really do this is it.

Job responsibilities
Core Clinical Responsibilities
Repeat Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation - You'll take clinical ownership of the repeat prescription requests that come to you, reviewing them with a clinical eye, identifying opportunities to optimise, deprescribe or intervene, and helping ensure the repeat prescribing process is a driver of patient safety rather than an administrative function. Where you hold an independent prescribing qualification, you'll authorise prescriptions directly.

Medicines Reconciliation - You'll carry out medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, outpatient appointments and transfers of care, identifying and resolving discrepancies, reducing the risk of medicines-related harm at points of transition, and ensuring patients receive the medicines they need when they need them.

Structured Medication Reviews - You'll conduct structured medication reviews with patients who have complex polypharmacy and multi-morbidity, reviewing the ongoing need for each medicine, identifying monitoring gaps, and implementing prescribing changes where you are qualified to do so. The goal is better outcomes for patients, not completed templates.

Long-Term Condition Management - You'll run clinics and manage your own caseload for patients with long-term conditions where medicines play a central role, including conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, COPD, heart failure and anticoagulation. You'll work proactively to keep patients well managed, reducing avoidable GP appointments and unplanned hospital admissions.

Medicines Safety - You'll contribute to the practice's medicines safety work, including MHRA safety alerts, ECLIPSE monitoring, high-risk drug audits, and risk stratification searches to identify patients at elevated risk of medicines-related harm. This is owned work, not reactive work.

Patient-Facing Medicines Support - You'll provide direct support to patients with questions, concerns or queries about their medicines, by telephone and face to face, reducing the burden on GPs and reception teams while improving patients' understanding of and engagement with their treatment.

Care Home Medicines Support - You'll support care home patients within your practice population, conducting medication reviews, supporting proxy ordering arrangements, advising care home staff on medicines-related matters, and working proactively with care home teams to reduce medicines-related risk.

QOF and Enhanced Services - You'll play an active role in QOF delivery, not as an end-of-year task, but as an embedded, year-round function of your clinical work. Through repeat prescribing, medication reviews and proactive patient management, you'll help the practice consistently meet its quality indicators.

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Guidelines - You'll be a source of medicines expertise for the practice team, offering advice and guidance to GPs, nurses and other clinical and administrative colleagues on medicines-related matters. You'll contribute to antimicrobial stewardship and support the implementation of local and national prescribing guidelines, helping build a culture where medicines are managed to the highest standard.

Independent Prescribing
If you hold an independent prescribing qualification, you'll use it fully in this role. You'll have the clinical autonomy and system access to prescribe directly, reducing unnecessary GP involvement in routine medicines decisions and freeing GP time for the complex clinical work that requires it.

If you are working towards your independent prescribing qualification, we will actively support you to complete it, including access to a Designated Prescribing Practitioner where possible

Person Specification
Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• MPharm degree or equivalent
• Excellent clinical knowledge across common acute and long-term conditions seen in general practice
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to work confidently with patients, GPs and the wider practice team
• Ability to manage own caseload, prioritise effectively and work under pressure
• Commitment to working at the top of your clinical capability and developing your practice
• Full driving licence and own transport

Desirable

• Independent prescribing qualification (or actively working towards)
• Completion of CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway (or willingness to undertake)
• Experience in a primary care or general practice setting

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.