Job summary
Interviews for this role will take place on 15/12/25 in the morning.
We are looking for a proactive and experienced part time Clinical
Pharmacy to join our Primary Care Network (PCN) team on a Thursday and Friday,
playing a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
Aspen is a large single-practice PCN; you'll work closely
with pharmacy staff and prescription clerks, receiving direct support and
supervision to thrive in your role.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will work closely with GPs, clinical pharmacists, nurses, and administrative staff to ensure patients receive safe, effective, and evidence-based treatment. The clinical pharmacist will work as part of the general practice team, within their clinical competencies, to provide expertise in clinical medicines management and safety across a range of aspects such as long-term condition management, day to day medication related queries, acute prescription requests, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements and follow up, actioning MHRA alerts and targeted medication reviews. This is a predominantly telephone based role but there may be scope to . You will also be involved in all aspects of leading and delivering on medicines safety. You will be expected to help in streamlining processes and developing protocols to allow for safer prescribing and to meet CQC expectations.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. It would be required that you are already an independent prescriber with primary care experience, however primary care experience is not essential. As part of the role, if you have not already undertaken this, you will be expected to complete the CPPE primary care pathway.
About us
Aspen Medical Practice is a single practice Primary Care
Network (PCN) and take full advantage of the additional resources this brings.
We have over 30,000 patients and cover 3 sites.
We have a large and growing team of clinicians and a strong
multi-disciplinary approach to providing high quality care. Our size gives us
the opportunity to be at the forefront of change and to adopt new technology
and diagnostics to better serve the needs of our patient population. We have an
new purpose built health centre as our main site and have 2 smaller branch
surgeries.
Aspen Medical Practice is an equal opportunities employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their
professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacist
in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a lead clinical
pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in
a patient facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of
chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical
medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice
staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help
support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests,
and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer
prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing
both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines
optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and
outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with
community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient
outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role
is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so
requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general
practice.
See attached JD and person specification for more information
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their
professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacist
in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a lead clinical
pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in
a patient facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of
chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical
medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice
staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help
support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests,
and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer
prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing
both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines
optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and
outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with
community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient
outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role
is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so
requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general
practice.
See attached JD and person specification for more information
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working in general practice
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- 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
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence, motivate, persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or
- 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 provision
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Independent prescriber
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working in general practice
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- 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
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence, motivate, persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or
- 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 provision
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Independent prescriber
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
