Senior Pharmacist RPC | Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our friendly and forward-thinking team based within the Royal Primary Care Chesterfield / North Derbyshire PCN. The role will be based in primary care but as part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, the team is uniquely positioned to develop strong links between primary and secondary care.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address the public health and social needs of patients within ND PCN member practices.
• Provide expertise in structured medication reviews (SMRs) and address public health and social needs of patients.
• Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need after discharge.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine‑related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to achieve the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicine‑related issues.
• Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
• Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.
• Increase the quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.
• Implement drug withdrawals and alerts (e.g., MHRA) aimed at improving medicines safety.
• Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence‑based guidelines.
• Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions.
• Contribute to multi‑morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
• Provide medicines information and training to practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
• Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g., around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives, out of stocks).
• Work within the practice‑based team across the ND PCN member practices to undertake medication reviews particularly in high‑risk groups:

• Frail elderly
• Problematic polypharmacy
• Renal impairment
• Hepatic impairment
• Substance misuse
• Patients on high‑risk medicines
• STOPP/START identified patients
• Revolving door hospital admissions

Educational and Quality Improvement

• Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the ND PCN member practice.
• Lead on changes in evidence that require changes in prescribing across patient populations (e.g., drug withdrawals or indication changes).
• Liaise with community pharmacy colleagues to align support for medicines adherence.
• Support improvements in clinical care through practice‑based audit and implementing change.
• Reduce problematic polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review.
• Work alongside primary care colleagues supporting the vaccination programme.
• Support patients in managing long‑term health conditions such as metabolic, lipids, CVD including hypertension, respiratory conditions, and diabetes.

Qualifications

• Experienced pharmacist with primary care exposure.
• Completion of CPPE pathway training is desirable but not essential.
• Demonstrated independent prescribing capability.
• Strong clinical, educational and governance skills.

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Apr 2026.

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