PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary

The Purbeck PCN Pharmacy Team includes clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a care coordinator working alongside general practice and the PCN clinical teams. This part‑time role of 24 hours requires flexible working to support patients in care homes and home visits for housebound patients.

• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, care home residents, those with multiple co‑morbidities and people with learning disabilities or autism.
• Review the ongoing need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and use the opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes through shared decision‑making conversations.
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self‑care.
• Make appropriate recommendations to prescribers and promote safe disposal of medicines and recycling of inhalers.
• Help set up pharmacist‑run long‑term condition clinics, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and optimise blood pressure control using BP@Home.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews in care homes, formulate a medicines optimisation plan jointly with the patient/carer and facilitate its implementation by working with other professionals, services and agencies.
• Support patients to wean from medications including opioids, gabapentinoids and antidepressants in line with national guidance.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Take part in the pharmacy team central rota to answer relevant medicine‑related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, community pharmacy and patients.
• Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources.
• Carry out medication reviews and reconciliation for all new patients and for patients whose care is transferred back into primary care.
• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
• Support the pharmacy team in managing blood monitoring of high‑risk drugs and DOACs across the PCN.
• Lead on medicines optimisation‑based projects or portfolio areas of work as required by the pharmacy team.
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams to improve patient outcomes, access to healthcare and manage workload.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals within and beyond the PCN and the wider health and social care system.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines and help address public health and social care needs, tackling inequalities.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance, undertake clinical audits, and contribute to the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with individuals from all agencies and at all levels, including service users, carers and professionals.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Self‑motivated and able to work with limited direction.
• Commitment to engaging with and empowering service users and carers.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Work methodically and accurately.
• Support colleagues and check own or colleague’s work as appropriate.
• Work independently without direct supervision.
• Subject to the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act, able to travel using own vehicle.
• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to carry out the role effectively.

• Demonstrated ability in training.

• Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long‑term conditions.
• Appreciation of NHS agenda, national policies and government targets.
• Basic IT skills normally obtained through practice or practical training.

• Primary Care experience.
• Recent experience of developing and implementing pharmaceutical care…