Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team
The closing date is 10 November 2025
Job summary
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for us to recruit a Part Time Clinical Pharmacist working 22.5 hours per week (with potential to increase to full time) to join our rapidly expanding primary care team, working across Richmondshire Primary Care Network (PCN). The Network comprises of 8 practices covering Richmond, Leyburn, Hawes, Catterick, Scorton and Aldbrough St John. We support almost 44,000 patients across the area.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our existing team to support our GPs and the wider primary care workforce. Working within your professional boundaries, you will be responsible for working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary primary care teams across all practices within the PCN.
If you are committed and enthusiastic & looking for an exciting role within an evolving and innovative primary care setting; and if you are interested in progressing your development and contributing to the development of innovative models of primary healthcare in North Yorkshire, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We already have a well embedded Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team who are integral in improving the quality of planned care in Care Homes and Supported Living settings. They are a specialised visiting team who coordinate the provision of tailored and multi-disciplinary care to residents, in line with the requirements of the national Enhanced Health in Care Homes Service Specification. This role is influential in the continued development of this service provision. It is part of the pioneering integration of Richmondshire Primary Care and Community Teams with Older Persons service development at the local Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
You will add a unique and valuable contribution to the skill mix of the primary care team and multi-disciplinary team working within Care Homes and Supported Living Accommodation. Older people often have multiple medications for a range of illnesses, may benefit less from them and are at higher risk of side effects and interactions, causing additional problems. The Pharmacist will deliver Structured Medication Reviews and contribute to MDTs. By sharing your expert knowledge on medication with the wider clinical team, leading to overall improvements in care related to medicines and interprofessional learning.
About us
You will be employed by our local GP Federation, Heartbeat Primary Care CIC. It represents sixteen practices across the localities of Hambleton and Richmondshire. It was formed in 2014 to facilitate and encourage joint working between practices and with other partners. It has forged close working relationships with all member practices across the locality and continues to support the development of relationships across primary care. It has an outstanding track record of collaboration and innovation and currently hosts several PCN Additional Roles (ARRS) posts on behalf of Richmondshire PCN.
Details
Date posted
22 October 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
C0003-25-0013
Job locations
Scorton Medical Centre
Stags Way
Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6HB
Job description
Job responsibilities
Integration and working as a team is seen as essential part of our PCN and as such you will work alongside our practice-based pharmacists. This allows for the provision of essential support from your professional peers
You will significantly contribute to patient safety, by bringing medicines and prescribing expertise to support patients and carers with the management of their long term conditions including concordance and support for healthy lifestyles.
We have long planned to provide the INTs services to patients in their own homes, a vision supported by the 10 year plan. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to both the planning and provision of this service.
Acting within your professional boundaries and supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in primary care you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role.
The post holder will work with the wider PCN team to ensure that all aspects of the Primary Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service and its associated service specifications, relevant to this post, are realised.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within practices 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 and help support the repeat prescription system. They will deal with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care for patients. They will support the development and delivery of systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines whilst addressing both public and social care needs of patients in primary care.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement as well as contributing to some aspects of Quality and Outcomes Framework and Investment and Impact Fund work where appropriate.
The role is pivotal to improving quality of care for patients and operational efficiencies within primary care and therefore requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if not already a prescriber.
Key responsibilities
Responsibilities may include but not be limited to the following:
See patients with LTC(s) where medicines optimisation is required and review the on-going need for each medicine
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients, including arranging appropriate monitoring
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings
Where appropriate and required, provide patient facing clinics and or phone consultations for those with questions and concerns about their medicines
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and outpatient appointments
Managing a caseload of patients with specific ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets
Analyse, present and interpret medicines data to highlight issue and risks to support decision making
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
Monitor practice prescribing against national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Work to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission through audit and individual patient reviews
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to local practices and Heartbeat Primary Care CIC as business organisations. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Heartbeat and practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Heartbeat and practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Heartbeat Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
Infection Control all clinical and non-clinical staff groups
Responsible for, in respect of your area of work, for ensuring so far as is reasonably practicable and in accordance with policies, that you are aware of your individual responsibilities in regard to infection prevention and control, this requires you to:
Maintain safe infection prevention and control the environment for yourself and others
Be familiar with and comply with current infection prevention and control guidelines, policies and procedures
Raise matters of non-compliance with your manager
Attend infection prevention and control mandatory training as directed by your manager
Be appraised in relation to infection prevention and control
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Heartbeat procedures and policies, and current legislation and also that of any practices you may be working in
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development
The post-holder will participate in any learning programme implemented by Heartbeat as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within Heartbeat and member practices, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Keep accurate and contemporaneous entries in patients records using practice clinical systems (currently all practices using TPP SystmOne).
Contribution to the Implementation of Services
The post-holder will:
- Apply Heartbeat policies, standards and guidance and those of general practice where appropriate
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Special Working Conditions
The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable) and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies
The post-holder will be part of Richmondshire PCN and will be expected to support the work of the PCN and its constituent practices as required.
ANY OTHER DELEGATED DUTIES CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE TO THE POST.
This job description covers the main duties that the post holder will be expected to undertake. These duties may be revised from time-to-time following consultation with the post holder.
Richmondshire PCN continues to work closely with Northumberland University and their Enhanced Care for Older People (EnCOP) programme. The aim of EnCOP is to recognise older peoples care as a specialism, provide best practice guidance, support inter-professional and inter-organisational care and consistency across the system. There will be an opportunity to be involved in the framework. Applicants who do not hold knowledge and skills specific to meeting the needs of older people and SMRs should be willing to develop these in line with our planned workforce developments [including in being supported to complete the EnCOP programme].
Job description
Job responsibilities
Integration and working as a team is seen as essential part of our PCN and as such you will work alongside our practice-based pharmacists. This allows for the provision of essential support from your professional peers
You will significantly contribute to patient safety, by bringing medicines and prescribing expertise to support patients and carers with the management of their long term conditions including concordance and support for healthy lifestyles.
We have long planned to provide the INTs services to patients in their own homes, a vision supported by the 10 year plan. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to both the planning and provision of this service.
Acting within your professional boundaries and supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in primary care you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role.
The post holder will work with the wider PCN team to ensure that all aspects of the Primary Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service and its associated service specifications, relevant to this post, are realised.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within practices 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 and help support the repeat prescription system. They will deal with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care for patients. They will support the development and delivery of systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines whilst addressing both public and social care needs of patients in primary care.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement as well as contributing to some aspects of Quality and Outcomes Framework and Investment and Impact Fund work where appropriate.
The role is pivotal to improving quality of care for patients and operational efficiencies within primary care and therefore requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if not already a prescriber.
Key responsibilities
Responsibilities may include but not be limited to the following:
See patients with LTC(s) where medicines optimisation is required and review the on-going need for each medicine
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients, including arranging appropriate monitoring
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings
Where appropriate and required, provide patient facing clinics and or phone consultations for those with questions and concerns about their medicines
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and outpatient appointments
Managing a caseload of patients with specific ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets
Analyse, present and interpret medicines data to highlight issue and risks to support decision making
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
Monitor practice prescribing against national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Work to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission through audit and individual patient reviews
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to local practices and Heartbeat Primary Care CIC as business organisations. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Heartbeat and practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Heartbeat and practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Heartbeat Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
Infection Control all clinical and non-clinical staff groups
Responsible for, in respect of your area of work, for ensuring so far as is reasonably practicable and in accordance with policies, that you are aware of your individual responsibilities in regard to infection prevention and control, this requires you to:
Maintain safe infection prevention and control the environment for yourself and others
Be familiar with and comply with current infection prevention and control guidelines, policies and procedures
Raise matters of non-compliance with your manager
Attend infection prevention and control mandatory training as directed by your manager
Be appraised in relation to infection prevention and control
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Heartbeat procedures and policies, and current legislation and also that of any practices you may be working in
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development
The post-holder will participate in any learning programme implemented by Heartbeat as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within Heartbeat and member practices, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Keep accurate and contemporaneous entries in patients records using practice clinical systems (currently all practices using TPP SystmOne).
Contribution to the Implementation of Services
The post-holder will:
- Apply Heartbeat policies, standards and guidance and those of general practice where appropriate
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Special Working Conditions
The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (where applicable) and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies
The post-holder will be part of Richmondshire PCN and will be expected to support the work of the PCN and its constituent practices as required.
ANY OTHER DELEGATED DUTIES CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE TO THE POST.
This job description covers the main duties that the post holder will be expected to undertake. These duties may be revised from time-to-time following consultation with the post holder.
Richmondshire PCN continues to work closely with Northumberland University and their Enhanced Care for Older People (EnCOP) programme. The aim of EnCOP is to recognise older peoples care as a specialism, provide best practice guidance, support inter-professional and inter-organisational care and consistency across the system. There will be an opportunity to be involved in the framework. Applicants who do not hold knowledge and skills specific to meeting the needs of older people and SMRs should be willing to develop these in line with our planned workforce developments [including in being supported to complete the EnCOP programme].
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Desirable
- Experience of working within general practice and ability to use GP clinical systems Systm1
Other
Essential
- Full driving licence and ability to travel around the federation/PCN locality
- Self-motivated
- Adaptable
- In-date DBS
- Level 3 - Safeguarding adult and children
- Immunisation status up to date
- Basic life support training
Desirable
- Information governance completion
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Appropriate specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- Have completed the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Pathway (or be willing to complete this if not done already)
- Have completed the EnCOP Programme (or be willing to complete this if not done already)
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
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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
- Demonstrate 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
- Good IT skills
- 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 when there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Desirable
- Experience of working within general practice and ability to use GP clinical systems Systm1
Other
Essential
- Full driving licence and ability to travel around the federation/PCN locality
- Self-motivated
- Adaptable
- In-date DBS
- Level 3 - Safeguarding adult and children
- Immunisation status up to date
- Basic life support training
Desirable
- Information governance completion
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Appropriate specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- Have completed the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Pathway (or be willing to complete this if not done already)
- Have completed the EnCOP Programme (or be willing to complete this if not done already)
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
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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
- Demonstrate 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
- Good IT skills
- 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 when there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Heartbeat Primary Care CIC
Address
Scorton Medical Centre
Stags Way
Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6HB
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Heartbeat Primary Care CIC
Address
Scorton Medical Centre
Stags Way
Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6HB
Employer's website
Employer contact details
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Details
Date posted
22 October 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
C0003-25-0013
Job locations
Scorton Medical Centre
Stags Way
Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6HB
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