Senior Clinical Pharmacist Team Lead; PCN

Senior Clinical Pharmacist Team Lead (PCN)

Employer:

NHS Jobs

Location:

Pay:

£55,000.00 to £60,000.00 per year, £55000.00 - £60000.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

21/03/2026

The Clinical Pharmacy Team Lead will provide advanced clinical care, professional leadership, and operational oversight for the pharmacy workforce across North Wilts Border PCN. The role blends patient facing responsibilities with medicines optimisation, quality improvement, strategic service development, and workforce leadership.

The key duties and responsibilities include Conducting structured medication reviews for patients with complex polypharmacy, long term conditions, frailty, learning disabilities, high risk medicines, or recent hospital discharge.

Undertaking clinical medication reviews for patients in practices, care homes, and domiciliary settings, producing clear recommendations for GPs and nurses.

Leading on medicines reconciliation post discharge from hospital, intermediate care, and when entering care homes, identifying and resolving discrepancies.

Providing patient facing and telephone based medicines advice, supporting adherence, answering medicine related queries, and promoting shared decision making.

Reviewing and monitoring medicines linked with unplanned hospital admissions, implementing changes to reduce risk to vulnerable patients.

Ensuring appropriate monitoring and safety checks are in place for medicines requiring ongoing review.

Managing continuity of supply for high risk groups, including those using compliance aids or living in care settings.

Supporting public health initiatives and providing medication related expertise to campaigns and community programmes.

Contributing to multidisciplinary case conferences, collaborating to optimise care plans and medication management.

Using practice computer searches and risk stratification tools to identify high risk patient cohorts based on clinical presentation, prescribing patterns, or both.

Prioritising patients for review using clinical judgement and evidence based principles.

Reducing variation and proactively addressing unsafe or inefficient prescribing.

As the designated leader for the pharmacy workforce, the post holder will Lead and manage the Pharmacy and Pharmacy Technician Team, promoting excellence, collaboration, and a culture of high professional standards.

Provides clinical supervision, mentorship, and support for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, including Independent Prescribers and those in training.

Oversees induction, competency development, and continuation of training for all new and existing team members.

Ensures staff engage with appraisal processes, supervision, and ongoing CPD. Acts as a role model, demonstrating professionalism, adaptability, inclusivity, and compassionate leadership.

Supports performance management processes and addresses issues in line with organisational policy.

Encourages innovation and extends boundaries of service delivery within the pharmacy team.

Leading pharmacy related projects aligned with PCN, ICB, and national priorities.

Supporting the delivery of PQS, QOF, and additional PCN wide service requirements.

Managing rota planning, staffing levels, and leave coordination to maintain consistent clinical coverage.

Thus, contributing to operational delivery of pharmacy services.

Representing the pharmacy service at internal and external meetings, including with GPs, ICB pharmacists, Medicines Management teams, community pharmacy, and hospital colleagues.

Fostering strong interprofessional relationships to enhance consistency and continuity of patient care.

Supporting the creation and implementation of prescribing policies, including repeat prescribing and safety processes.

The post holder ensures pharmacy services maintain high standards of safety, data quality, and regulatory compliance:
Leading clinical audits, sharing findings, and providing practical recommendations for improvement.

Using prescribing data to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for targeted interventions.

Implementing changes based on MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, NICE guidance, and…