Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist Job Luton area,England UK,Healthcare

Summary

To provide leadership and development for the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality, patient-centred clinical care.

Role

To lead and mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute to competency assessment, supervision and professional development

To provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries, electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements

To promote medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate monitoring for high-risk therapies

To help to translate national and local priorities into effective practice

To deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients, including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex needs

To run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including domiciliary or care-home visits where required

To lead audits, searches, quality‑improvement work, policies and protocols, using data to monitor impact and report progress

To work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy, hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient outcomes

To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness, public‑health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across member practices

To oversee key medicines related programmes

Responsibilities

Clinical – Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including:

Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients
Long‑term condition management (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabetes)
Medicines reconciliation post‑discharge
Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety

Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and other healthcare professionals on safe, evidence‑based and cost‑effective prescribing
In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs, nurses and healthcare assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patient and adapt therapy where appropriate
Address the day‑to‑day issues raised by patients / staff in relation to medicines management and escalated / investigate / prevent recurrence as necessary
Competently manage and undertake patient clinics, organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patient follow‑ups and medicine optimisation
Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamless integration of pharmacy into patient pathways

Leadership & Management

Line manage, mentor and support the pharmacy workforce, ensuring role clarity, supervision, appraisal and continuous professional development (CPD)
Champion a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring and shared learning
Engage in the recruitment, conduct or performance management of Pharmacy Team members, with the support of the PCN Manager
Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work