Primary Care Network (PCN) Pharmacist
Company: The Leys GP Partnership
Job ID: A2763-26-0004

The closing date is 20 November 2026

Job summary

• The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a primary care setting.
• The post holder will work directly with patients to provide structured medication reviews and optimisation for a variety of patients including (but not limited to); those on multiple medications, patients with hypertension, COPD, asthma, frailty and learning disabilities. Through structured medication reviews they will support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• 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 request queries, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice for both patients and the healthcare team within the practice.
• 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 assist with shared working 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.

Main duties of the job

• Patient facing clinical medication review
• Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication reviews
• Enhanced Health in Care Homes support
• Patient facing medicines support
• Telephone medicines support, Medicine information to practice staff and patients
• Anticipatory Care
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital and outpatient clinic medicines related recommendations
• Repeat prescribing
• Clinical areas
• Information management
• Medicines Quality Improvement programmes
• Medicines safety
• Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
• Education and Training

About us
The SEOxHA Network delivers health and wellbeing services to a population of 33,000. The local community is a rich blend of cultures and diverse backgrounds.

This is a unique opportunity to develop the role within the Primary Care Network (PCN) and work with other team members to develop the PCN as a whole.

There are clinical pharmacists and a pharmacy technician, social prescribing link workers, and learning disability & care home patient coordinators in the PCN.

Details
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience Non AFC role – equivalent to band 7 depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: A2763-26-0004

Job locations
The Leys Health Centre, Dunnock Way, Oxford, OX4 7EX
Temple Cowley Health Centre, Templar House, Temple Road, Oxford, OX4 2HL
Donnington Health Centre, 1 Henley Avenue, Oxford, OX4 4DH

Job responsibilities

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes, as an independent prescriber training provided through the CPPE Primary Care Education pathway if not already completed, and order relevant monitoring tests.
• Work to tackle over medication, antimicrobial stewardship, wider medicines optimisation with a focus on, but not limited to asthma, COPD, frail, elderly, reducing overprescribing in patients with learning difficulties and patients with complex needs.
• Be involved in managing vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.
• Implement prescribing changes and ordering of monitoring tests.
• Refer patients to the social prescribing service where appropriate and other services as required such as falls clinic, frailty service etc.
• Be part of a multi-disciplinary team, including GPs and nurses, providing care to patients in the care homes served by the member practices. Review medications and provide medicines optimisation and rationalisation for care home patients to reduce risk and promote appropriate prescribing.
• Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Provide telephone appointments for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
• Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Work with practice teams to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of admission or adverse health outcomes, including palliative patients. Work with GPs, case managers, multidisciplinary (health and social care) review teams, hospital colleagues where appropriate to manage medicines related risk for readmission and patient harm.
• Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups.
• Work as part of our Pharmacy Hub team to reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes. Actioning medication changes from outpatient clinics with direction from the patients GP.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
• Work in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care.
• Help to manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber (training can be provided as stated above), and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
• Hypertension Reviews and other chronic disease reviews according to competence and with agreement of the practice team.
• Rheumatoid Arthritis annual face to face review (with appropriate training)
• DOAC/Warfarin TTR reviews and liaison with specialist hospital teams
• Contextual de-prescribing where appropriate for polypharmacy in line with local guidance.
• Working on the local Prescribing Incentive Scheme, QOF and quality improvement.
• Where necessary deliver vaccinations (e.g. Flu, covid) with appropriate training and support.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing and medicines optimisation.
• Conduct clinical audits and improve projects or work with colleagues such as GP registrars, practice managers etc.
• Present results and provide leadership on suggested changes. Contribute to national and local research initiatives.
• Identify national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence from clinical trials.
• Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners and communicating changes to the practices through the PCN monthly prescribers meeting.
• Monitor practice prescribing for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
• Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Provide training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy and other healthcare students where appropriate.

Person Specification
Qualifications - Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• 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
• Excellent IT skills, across multiple systems.
• Previous experience using GP clinical systems such as EMISweb, Docman X.
• 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 where there may be significant barriers
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence
• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Information Governance toolkit completion
• Immunisation status
• Basic life support training

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
The Leys GP Partnership, The Leys Health Centre, Dunnock Way, Oxford, OX4 7EX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.theleyshealthcentre.co.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
PCN Manager Roisin Gibson, roisin.gibson@nhs.net