Clinical Pharmacist (Location: Harrow)

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide medicines optimisation and prescribing support across Health Alliance PCN. The role will involve patient-facing clinical activity, including structured medication reviews, medication advice, chronic disease management, safer prescribing initiatives, and supporting high-quality prescribing across our GP practices.

The post requires confident autonomous working in a clinical setting, delivering pharmaceutical care to a diverse PCN population. The Clinical Pharmacist will provide medication reviews and advice, with protected time to complete structured medication reviews and support contractual requirements, including QOF, IIF and other PCN priorities.

Main duties and responsibilities

Provide structured medication reviews for patients with complex medication needs, polypharmacy, long-term conditions, frailty or other identified clinical risks.

Support medicines optimisation across the PCN, helping patients to understand and use their medicines safely and effectively.

Provide medication advice to patients, carers, clinicians and wider practice teams.

Support chronic disease management through clinical reviews, medicines adjustment, monitoring and prescribing support, within scope of practice.

Contribute to safer prescribing initiatives, including audits, searches, high-risk drug monitoring, prescribing safety alerts and quality improvement work.

Support achievement of QOF, IIF, CRM and PCN DES and other contractual or local enhanced service requirements.

Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians, care coordinators, social prescribers and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Review hospital discharge letters, clinic letters and medication changes where appropriate, supporting accurate and safe medicines reconciliation.

Help reduce medicines waste, inappropriate prescribing and unnecessary medication burden for patients.

Support repeat prescribing processes, medicines queries and prescribing governance across PCN practices.

Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure all work is appropriately coded and documented within the clinical system.

Work within professional, legal and ethical boundaries, escalating clinical concerns appropriately.

Engage in continuing professional development and, where not already qualified, work towards becoming an Independent Prescriber if agreed as part of the role development plan.

Health Alliance is a Primary Care network in Harrow, with over 58,000 patients over 6 GP practices. Each of the practices with the PCN are long established

Qualifications

Essential: - Pharmacy registration