PCN Clinical Pharmacist inBrandon inBrandon PUBLISHED 26 DEC 2023

£23 to £24 an hour  PERMANENT 

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Forest Heath Primary Care Network (PCN) has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic & innovative pharmacist to join our PCN. You will be based at one of our 8 practices on a rota, and will be required to travel between all of the practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a full or part-time basis, for up to 37.5 hours per week.

  • Clinically assessing & treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
  • Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines & medicine information.
  • Providing pharmaceutical medication review & health education advice to patients, face-to-face, via telephone or notes-based review.
  • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation & quality improvement;
  • Supporting practice dispensary.
  • Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
  • Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics.
  • Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, & end-of-life patients.
  • Reviewing daily pathology results.
  • Undertaking minor ailments triage & directing patients, based on clinical need.
  • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes & COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored & complied with.
  • Delivering on/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
  • Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates.
  • Reviewing prescribing against local/national targets, engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues.
  • Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes.
  • Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Forest Heath Primary Care Network (PCN) has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic & innovative pharmacist to join our PCN. You will be based at one of our 8 practices on a rota, and will be required to travel between all of the practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a full or part-time basis, for up to 37.5 hours per week.

  • Clinically assessing & treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
  • Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines & medicine information.
  • Providing pharmaceutical medication review & health education advice to patients, face-to-face, via telephone or notes-based review.
  • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation & quality improvement;
  • Supporting practice dispensary.
  • Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
  • Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics.
  • Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, & end-of-life patients.
  • Reviewing daily pathology results.
  • Undertaking minor ailments triage & directing patients, based on clinical need.
  • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes & COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored & complied with.
  • Delivering on/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
  • Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates.
  • Reviewing prescribing against local/national targets, engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues.
  • Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes.
  • Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.



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