Clinical Pharmacist (Independent Prescriber) - Newcastle South PCN
North Staffordshire GP Federation
And all practices within, ST5 2BQ
Salary
£49,387
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
14 September 2026
14 days left
Job description
Job Role: Clinical Pharmacist (Independent Prescriber) Salary: £49,387 Band 7 Hours of Work: 37.5 Hours per week Reports/responsible To:PCN Strategic ...
Main duties
Clinical
Review letters from secondary care that
recommend a change in medication.
Resolve queries from the prescribing team.
Review the records of patients whose repeat
medication has reached the review date.
Monitor the MHRA and respond to alerts as
necessary.
Ensure the effective implementation of repeat
dispensing.
Engage with External Stakeholders.
Assist with minor illness clinics.
Management
Initiate and implement ideas to improve acute
and repeat prescribing.
Support the doctors and nurse practitioners in
maintaining good prescribing.
Administration
Maintain accurate and clear clinical records.
Be familiar with the current QoF, LES and DES
Initiate and participate in practice audit.
Contribute to the smooth running and future
development of the practices.
Employed by
Newcastle South Primary Care Network, the postholder will work as part of a multidisciplinary
team of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Care Coordinators, Social
Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Dietician, Mental Health
Practitioners, and First Contact Physiotherapist.
The PCN is made
up of five practices with a patient population of over 43,000 patients.
Scope and
Purpose of Job Description
The following
Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work
and is not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities,
duties and skills required. Duties may
vary from time to time dependent upon factors such as workload, staffing
levels, new legislation, and changes in technology or policy, in this event
appropriate training will be provided.
Job Purpose
The purpose of
the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice
in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the
nest from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved
protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice,
including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising
clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
The postholder
will practice as an independent prescriber, working with and alongside the
general practice team, holding face to face consultations including for long
term conditions within scope of competence.
In addition,
the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better
understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the
practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic
developments. This will involve
assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements and utilisation of medicines
optimisation initiatives.
1.
Clinical
1.1 Letter from Secondary Care
Review letters
from secondary care that recommend a change in medication.
Update the patients list of repeat medications.
If appropriate, communicate with the patient (or
the person responsible with their care) and their nominated pharmacist.
If necessary, issue a prescription.
1.2 Prescription Queries
Resolve queries
from the prescribing team.
Request for medication not on the patients
repeat list.
Request for medication that is not available.
The patient appears to be over or underusing
medication.
1.3 Medication Reviews
Review the
records of patients whose repeat medication has reached the review date.
Check that biological and laboratory
measurements are up to date and within target.
Minimise polypharmacy.
Optimise prescription duration.
Check that doses are appropriate to age, renal
and hepatic function.
Consider patient capacity and concordance.
Consider the possibility of prescription drug
addiction.
If necessary, advise patient of need for
consultation with nurse or doctor.
Issue a prescription.
1.4 MHRA Alerts
Monitor
the MHRA and respond to alerts as necessary.
Run a computer search on the drug involved.
Arrange appropriate information to go the
patients involved and update their records.
Repeat the search after a suitable time interval.
1.5 Repeat Prescribing
Ensure
The effective implementation of repeat dispensing by
Identifying patients suitable for repeat
dispensing.
Work closely with prescribers and community
pharmacies.
Issue medication for future repeat prescribing
within scope of competence as an independent prescriber.
1.6 External Stakeholders
Provide patients on treating self-limiting
conditions through face to face or remote consultation with referral to
community pharmacy services as appropriate.
Build rapport and work with relevant ICB team
members to achieve local incentives with includes antimicrobial stewardship,
cost effective prescribing and medicine safety management in line with local
formulary and guidance.
1.7 Assist with minor illness clinics
2. Management
Initiate and implement ideas to improve acute
and repeat prescribing.
Support the doctors and nurse practitioners in
maintaining good prescribing.
3. Administration
Maintain accurate and clear clinical records.
Be familiar with the current QoF, LES and DES
Initiate and participate in practice audit.
Contribute to the smooth running and future
development of the practices.
4. Professional Development
Pursue self-directed learning: identifying
areas of weakness and taking steps to improve.
Complete significant event forms when these
occur.
Maintain continued education by attendance at
appropriate courses and study days as agreed with the PCN Leadership Team.
Newcastle South PCN is made up of 5 member GP
Practices with a combined patient population of circa 43,000. The practices are from both urban and rural
areas, with significantly differing patient demographics:
Silverdale Medical Centre
Madeley Practice
Kingsbridge Medical Centre
University of Keele Practice
Ashley Surgery
We
are a dynamic and forward thinking PCN team comprising of Clinical Pharmacists,
Pharmacy Technicians, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribing Link Workers, First
Contact Physiotherapy and Mental Health Practitioners, Health and Wellbeing
Coach and Dietician.
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree or MSc in Pharmacy Hold or be working towards a Postgraduate Diploma Independent prescribing qualification.
Behavioural competencies and skills
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing. Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Produce timely and informative reports.
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Work effectively independently and as a team member.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provisions.
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
- Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity.
- Can follow legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies / procedures and codes of conduct.
Desirable
- Good IT skills.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of principles of evidence-based healthcare.
Other
Essential
- Self-motivation.
- Adaptable and Flexible.
- Full driving licence.
- Professional indemnity insurance (if not covered by practice policy).
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
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First seen
27 August 2026
Last checked
28 August 2026
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