Company: NHS
Location: London
Posted: May 9th, 2026
The closing date is 25 May 2026.
Our practices are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our clinical team and work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient‑facing role.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join an established medicines team within the PCN footprint. You will be based across 2 to 3 practices and have the opportunity to build up relationships with the primary care team.
The role will be supported by a lead Clinical Pharmacist in our PCN. There are regular teaching sessions, and all our practices are engaged in ensuring the role is optimised and developed.
We are keen to hear from pharmacists of all backgrounds and levels of experience, whether you have already completed or would like to complete the independent prescriber (IP) qualification.
Although we are looking to recruit to a full‑time post, we would consider part‑time or flexible working particularly to support our extended hours provision.
Hackney Marshes PCN comprises five GP practices: Lower Clapton Group Practice, The Lea Surgery, Latimer Health Centre, Athena Medical Centre, and Kingsmead Medical Centre with a combined list size of 42,470.
We support a patient population within an area of high social deprivation with the aim to deliver higher quality care leading to better experience and outcomes. This is a truly exciting time to be working in Primary Care in Hackney; we hope you will consider joining us to be a part of our exciting and innovative team.
The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will:
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 to educate and improve 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 re‑authorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging 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 geography.
Support public health campaigns and 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 post holder and the manager.
The post holder will be required to work with a wide range of stakeholders, recognising the roles of other colleagues to person‑centred care, and liaising with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including:
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 how it fits into and 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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