Job summary
As a Senior PCN Pharmacist, youll play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our patients across our network of community pharmacies. Working collaboratively within primary care settings, you will lead on medicines optimisation, ensuring patients receive the best outcomes from their treatments. Youll provide expert clinical reviews, oversee prescribing audits, and manage the repeat prescription process in line with best practice and legal standards.
In this role, you will work closely with GPs and other healthcare professionals to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care. Youll also be responsible for training and developing healthcare teams, providing health screening and vaccination services, and ensuring full regulatory compliance across all pharmacy operations. Additionally, you will contribute to service delivery by monitoring performance, supporting resource planning, and driving continuous improvement in line with organisational and contractual goals.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior PCN Pharmacist your duties include, but are not limited to:
- Prioritising patient care, seeing patients with one or multiple medical problems where medicine optimism is required, and undertaking clinical medical reviews for patients, ensuring patients receive the best use from their prescriptions.
- Working closely with GPs, and other practicing heath care professionals where appropriate, answering any patient medicine questions they have.
- Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, communicating results and implementing changes.
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by clinical review of patient requests in line with review dates, and flagging those needing review.
- Training and developing the primary healthcare teams on therapeutics and medicines optimism.
- Ensuring legal compliance within the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses, and securing inventories-controlled drugs in line with regulations.
- Offering health-screening including blood-pressure monitoring, diabetes screening flu and other vaccine administration.
- Providing regular updates and monitoring of KPIs to the operational management team.
- Resource planning to meet service and contractual requirements.
About us
From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. Were proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, were a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.
We're owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more! Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagueshere.
We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can emailcareers@lincolnshire.coop.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)
- Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and prescriber reauthorisations.
- Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics.
- Answering relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
- Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
- Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.
- Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
- Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.- Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (Qof) indicators..- Checking patients prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another.
Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.- Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.- Securing inventories controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.- Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions- Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.
- Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.- Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.- Providing regular updates and monitors KPIs to operational management team- Taking responsibility for resource planning to meet service and contractual requirements
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)
- Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and prescriber reauthorisations.
- Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics.
- Answering relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
- Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
- Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.
- Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
- Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.- Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (Qof) indicators..- Checking patients prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another.
Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.- Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.- Securing inventories controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.- Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions- Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.
- Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.- Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.- Providing regular updates and monitors KPIs to operational management team- Taking responsibility for resource planning to meet service and contractual requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) and youll also need to be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- An independent prescribing pharmacist with experience of providing primary support to general practice colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.
- Experience in SystmOne desirable.
- Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and can implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- Committed to continual personal and professional development.
- To understand customer needs and provide excellent customer care.
- A flexible approach to ways of working.
- A proven track record of utilising their own initiative and prioritising own time.
- Excellent communication skills with a willingness to embrace new challenges and an ability to listen and engage effectively.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Knowledge of Lincolnshire Co-op and of the Co-operative business model, demonstrating values that would support our Purpose.
- A full driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is required for this role.
- This role is subject to DBS clearance.
- The role may be split between General Practice and Community Pharmacy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) and youll also need to be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- An independent prescribing pharmacist with experience of providing primary support to general practice colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.
- Experience in SystmOne desirable.
- Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and can implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- Committed to continual personal and professional development.
- To understand customer needs and provide excellent customer care.
- A flexible approach to ways of working.
- A proven track record of utilising their own initiative and prioritising own time.
- Excellent communication skills with a willingness to embrace new challenges and an ability to listen and engage effectively.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Knowledge of Lincolnshire Co-op and of the Co-operative business model, demonstrating values that would support our Purpose.
- A full driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is required for this role.
- This role is subject to DBS clearance.
- The role may be split between General Practice and Community Pharmacy.
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
