Yate & Frampton PCN Ltd

Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 31 August 2025

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly, well organised and supportive Primary Care Network to cover Maternity Leave. We are excited about the possibility and opportunities that a pharmacist joining our Network would provide.

28hrs per week available working at Frome Valley Medical Centre

PCN is made up of West Walk Surgery, Courtside Surgery, Wellington Road Family Practice, Kennedy Way Surgery and Frome Valley Medical Centre.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Salary is approximately £48,000 pro rata (depending on experience) For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Amanda Hares at Frome Valley Medical Centre on 01454 854949 or email: amanda.hares@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

This is a brief overview of the main duties - Please refer to Job Description attached

Prescribing

Medication Reviews

Management of Medicines at discharge from hospital

Long Term Condition (LTC) Clinics

Medicines Safety and Service Developments

Education and Training of others

About us

Frome Valley Medical Centre is a member of Yate & Frampton Primary Care Network, a collection of 5 GP Practices within the Yate and Frampton area working together to provide better health care to local residents. We provide a supportive and collaborative working environment and welcome forward thinking and flexible individuals to our team. Working within the PCN at at Frome Valley Medical Centre is an exciting opportunity to become involved with patients and bring forward new ideas for patient care and support. The PCN supports Health and wellbeing activities both within the PCN and externally and have a professional but relaxed working environment.

Details

Date posted

19 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,000 to £48,000 a year pro rata depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A5373-25-0002

Job locations

Frome Valley Medical Centre

2 Court Road

Frampton Cotterell

Bristol

BS36 2DE


Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Repeat Prescribing

Review/implement practice repeat prescribing policies.

Manage the repeat prescribing and reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage prescription queries across the practices, providing remote support where needed.

Ensure processes are in place for ordering and re-authorisation of high-risk medications and that monitoring tests are appropriately ordered.

Medication Review

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review1

Pro-actively identify patients using computer searches who require medication reviews e.g. polypharmacy, over 75s etc.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR and NMS.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Liaise with pharmacy colleagues in secondary care and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support for medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital and on discharge.

Long-term condition (LTC) clinics

Work within and develop own competence to deliver patient facing clinics in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicines optimisation is required (e.g. asthma, diabetes).

Build and use computer searches to pro-actively identify patients who may benefit from attending LTC clinics.

Make appropriate recommendations for ongoing treatment to patients and refer appropriately to the GP/other services where needed.

Medicines safety & Service Development

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Monitor practice prescribing against local recommendations and QOF targets.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives

e.g. around out of stocks.

Education and Training of Others

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers and other practice staff around medicines optimisation and therapeutics.

Behavioural Competencies and Skills

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.

Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals, other NHS or private organisations e.g. CCGs.

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.

Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Actively work towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.

Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support.

Leadership

Liaises with other GP practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients.

Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.

Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Reviews last years progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within

priorities set by others.

Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Management

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and or service.

Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.

Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.

Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/ protocol.

Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Education, Training and Development

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process.

Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague.

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity.

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Research and Evaluation

Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature.

Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level.

Demonstrates ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice.

Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance.

This Job description is intended as a guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account new developments at the practice.

To carry out any other duties as may be required by the practice either temporarily or permanently.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Repeat Prescribing

Review/implement practice repeat prescribing policies.

Manage the repeat prescribing and reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage prescription queries across the practices, providing remote support where needed.

Ensure processes are in place for ordering and re-authorisation of high-risk medications and that monitoring tests are appropriately ordered.

Medication Review

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review1

Pro-actively identify patients using computer searches who require medication reviews e.g. polypharmacy, over 75s etc.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR and NMS.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Liaise with pharmacy colleagues in secondary care and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support for medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital and on discharge.

Long-term condition (LTC) clinics

Work within and develop own competence to deliver patient facing clinics in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicines optimisation is required (e.g. asthma, diabetes).

Build and use computer searches to pro-actively identify patients who may benefit from attending LTC clinics.

Make appropriate recommendations for ongoing treatment to patients and refer appropriately to the GP/other services where needed.

Medicines safety & Service Development

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Monitor practice prescribing against local recommendations and QOF targets.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives

e.g. around out of stocks.

Education and Training of Others

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers and other practice staff around medicines optimisation and therapeutics.

Behavioural Competencies and Skills

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.

Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals, other NHS or private organisations e.g. CCGs.

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team.

Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Actively work towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.

Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support.

Leadership

Liaises with other GP practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients.

Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.

Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Reviews last years progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within

priorities set by others.

Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Management

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and or service.

Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.

Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.

Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/ protocol.

Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Education, Training and Development

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process.

Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague.

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity.

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Research and Evaluation

Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature.

Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level.

Demonstrates ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice.

Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance.

This Job description is intended as a guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account new developments at the practice.

To carry out any other duties as may be required by the practice either temporarily or permanently.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent

Desirable

  • Post graduate diploma or equivalent training/experience
  • Independent prescriber or working towards qualification

Experience

Essential

  • In depth clinical knowledge and understanding of evidence-based healthcare
  • Understanding the nature of general practice and current pressures in primary care
  • Understanding the nature of primary care prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing
  • Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Ability to make informed clinical decisions and maintain accountability
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to both patients and healthcare professionals
  • Understands the importance of medicines optimisation in the management of long-term conditions
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies when referral is appropriate
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Desirable

  • Minimum 5 years post-registration experience

Other

Essential

  • Self-motivated
  • Adaptable
  • Flexible and willing to adapt

Desirable

  • Full driving license
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent

Desirable

  • Post graduate diploma or equivalent training/experience
  • Independent prescriber or working towards qualification

Experience

Essential

  • In depth clinical knowledge and understanding of evidence-based healthcare
  • Understanding the nature of general practice and current pressures in primary care
  • Understanding the nature of primary care prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing
  • Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Ability to make informed clinical decisions and maintain accountability
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to both patients and healthcare professionals
  • Understands the importance of medicines optimisation in the management of long-term conditions
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies when referral is appropriate
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Desirable

  • Minimum 5 years post-registration experience

Other

Essential

  • Self-motivated
  • Adaptable
  • Flexible and willing to adapt

Desirable

  • Full driving license

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Yate & Frampton PCN Ltd

Address

Frome Valley Medical Centre

2 Court Road

Frampton Cotterell

Bristol

BS36 2DE


Employer's website

https://www.westwalksurgery.co.uk/yate-and-frampton-pcn (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Yate & Frampton PCN Ltd

Address

Frome Valley Medical Centre

2 Court Road

Frampton Cotterell

Bristol

BS36 2DE


Employer's website

https://www.westwalksurgery.co.uk/yate-and-frampton-pcn (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Business Manager

Amanda Hares

amanda.hares@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

19 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,000 to £48,000 a year pro rata depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A5373-25-0002

Job locations

Frome Valley Medical Centre

2 Court Road

Frampton Cotterell

Bristol

BS36 2DE


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