Company: NHS
Location: London
Posted: April 30th, 2026
Closing date is 18 May 2026
The Shoreditch Park & City PCN in City & Hackney is seeking to recruit a PCN Clinical Pharmacist to develop and support medicines optimisation work within the Shoreditch Park & City PCN. You will be based at Lawson Practice. The candidate will be exposed to a breadth of different clinical experiences, working with very different patient demographics. No 2 days will be the same.
The post holder will work as part of a passionate multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and work proactively with other healthcare professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team across the PCN. The successful candidate will join a core Pharmacy Team and will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist supervisor, GP and other support staff. Regular development sessions, teaching, training and opportunities to up‑skill will be provided. You will work against a strong personalised development pathway. The PCN supports Pharmacists interested in becoming independent prescribers.
Clinical pharmacists have a key role in supporting delivery of the network contract Direct Enhanced Service (DES) specifications.
The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will need to be committed to improving health and putting patients first. Key qualities will be the ability to build effective relationships with patients, GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, hospital and practice staff, and to work effectively as part of a team. Demonstrable general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas, including long‑term conditions, together with a good understanding of general practice are essential.
Groups of GP Practices in City and Hackney have recently come together to form 8 Primary Care Networks (PCNs), each covering a total population of between 30,000 and 56,000. The purpose of these PCNs is to enable GP practices to work together in a collaborative way to develop and deliver network‑based services that respond to the needs of the local population.
The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will:
Review ongoing need for each medicine, assess monitoring requirements and support patients to ensure treatment is safe, appropriate and optimised for maximum clinical benefit.
Discuss recommendations and outcomes with relevant members of the PCN team and provide appropriate and timely follow up.
Support patients to optimise medicines by providing additional written patient information leaflets, and liaise with community pharmacists about the need for special requirements to aid adherence.
Support practices in improving patient access for minor ailments and acute presentations; promote the importance of self‑care and signpost patients to community pharmacies in line with national guidance on over‑the‑counter medicines.
Support relevant medicine‑related enquiries from the practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients.
Update practice teams at weekly meetings on current medicines‑related information and issues with a view to educating and improving prescribing within the practice.
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to practice staff regularly to highlight prescribing issues.
Communicate recommended actions relating to medication and medical device safety alerts.
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Support the practice and the PCN in delivering the outcomes as required in the medicines section of the Clinical Commissioning Contract.
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for specialist referral, monitoring and/or referred to the social prescriber for further support services where required.
Review, implement and support adherence to the practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those patients needing a review. Ensure patients on repeat prescriptions have the required monitoring and assessments undertaken as appropriate to their condition(s) and medicines prescribed.
Communicate, action and support implementation of MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Undertake clinical audits in priority areas identified by the CCG medicines management team or within the PCN and feedback results to practices and the PCN and support them in implementing recommendations. Support practices and PCNs in identifying and reporting onto NRLS any incidents relating to medicines. Be involved in investigating medicines incidents and identifying and implementing any required system improvements. Support implementation of shared care protocols in practice, including processes to improve monitoring of high risk drugs. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre‑prepared practice computer searches e.g. using PINCER and other tools. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Contribute to the provision of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider CCG/ICB geography.
To support public health campaigns; to provide specialist advice on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Undertake any other work supporting medicines optimisation in GP practices and the PCN commensurate with the banding of the post and which is agreed between the postholder and the manager.
The post-holder will be required to work with a wide range of stakeholders. It is important that the post holder recognises the roles of other colleagues to person‑centred care, and liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including:
Ability to work as a member of a team within the PCN.
Collaboration with network resources to support care management plans and social prescribing.
Has experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long‑term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
Minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
Holds an independent prescribing qualification, is working towards a qualification or has the intention to complete this in the future.
Demonstrates an understanding of the role of a clinical pharmacist within primary care and where it fits into and how it complements the practice team and the wider PCN team.
Accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
An expectation is for all staff to have a commitment to promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy environment and be responsible for their own and others' welfare. In addition, staff will be expected to undertake the statutory mandatory health and safety training and other training relevant to their specialist area of work.
The post-holder must co‑operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and complete the required statutory mandatory training.
The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.
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.
City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC
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