PCN Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

The interview date for this post will be Thursday,24th July 2025.

Due to an expansion of the team and services Primary Healthcare Darlington are looking for a highly motivated and aspirational clinical pharmacist to join our established team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

This role is critical in supporting the delivery of the PCN Contract DES specifications and will help lead improvements to maximise safe, evidenced-based best practice to improve the quality of patient care across Darlington and surrounding communities.

We are most interested in candidates with:

• Up-to-date clinical knowledge who understand the nature of primary care prescribing, medication review, and strategies for improving prescribing
• A commitment to addressing health inequalities and proactively reaching people from all communities
• The ability to recognise their personal limitations and boundaries, to understand those of their colleagues, and refer to other colleagues when necessary
• The ability to thrive when working in a devolved, flexible, autonomous environment

• In this position, you will be employed by Primary Healthcare Darlington on behalf of Darlington PCN in a role funded through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) and the General Practice Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (2024/25) (the DES). As part of your role, you will work closely with the PCN andthe General Practices across Darlington

Main duties of the job

The senior clinical pharmacist will support the Lead Pharmacist & Pharmacy Technicians in the PCN Pharmacy Hub team to work with the PCN and GP practices to deliver a programme of medicines optimisation including managing hospital discharge medication changes, secondary care implemented medicines and practice medication queries. The post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation for the population of Darlington. Moving between a select number of practices within the PCN, the role will have a remote element to it- conducting consultations via telephone including medication reconciliation post discharge, chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews. This will also include the management and review of patients with polypharmacy.

About us

Primary Healthcare Darlington was established in 2014 as the local GP Federation consisting of 11 GP Practices covering an ever-increasing population of 108,000+ registered patients in Darlington, County Durham. We have close links with Darlington Borough Council and local NHS Foundation Trusts and have the full support and backing of North East and North Cumbria ICB. We also work closely with and provide support to the Darlington Primary Care Network.

Working from dedicated premises close to Darlington Memorial Hospital we provide NHS, Public Health and Private Medical Services. This role is will involve working from home as part of your working week.

We are an award-winning company who places the wellbeing of our staff at the heart of everything we do. We have a wellbeing lead who offers staff access to multiple wellbeing resources, and as a company we offer staff access to free counselling services, protected time to develop professionally, access to high-quality training and development, free tea and coffee and chilled, filtered water and much more. We also offer staff an opportunity to volunteer for 4 days annually in the local community. In the past year staff have supported Groundwork, Age UK, Dogs Trust and many more community projects.

We are on the doorstep of some of the most beautiful and historic sites in the region.