Are you a pharmacist who is passionate aboutexploring a new opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in delivering excellencein patient clinical care?
The Chesterfield and Dronfield Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking fora Clinical Pharmacist to join their growing Arc Primary Care Pharmacy Team, towork alongside a team of Pharmacy Technicians and the practice team, in ChatsworthRoad Medical Practice, to develop theirknowledge and skill with keen support from the existing team, to meet thediverse needs of our patients.
Arc Primary Care is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offerstructured meritorious pay progression and NHS pension.
Interviews for this post will be held at Arc Primary Care, DunstonInnovation Centre, face to face, on Thursday 4 June 2026.
Main duties of the job The post holder will work within their clinicalcompetencies as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver highqualityclinical medicines management. The role will include providing patientfacingStructured Medication Reviews, supporting the management of longtermconditions, optimising medicines at transfer of care, and contributing tosystems that promote safer prescribing. The post holder will also support themanagement of repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisations, as wellas acute prescription requests, ensuring prescribing remains safe, effective,and aligned with best practice.
In undertaking thisrole, the post holder will address both the public health and wider social careneeds of patients registered at GP practices within the PCN. They will workcollaboratively with the wider practice and PCN teams to improve health outcomesand reduce healthcare inequalities. The post holder will receive clinicalsupervision, mentorship, and professional support from senior and lead clinicalpharmacists, who will support the development, governance, and oversight oftheir role.
This role is centralto improving the quality of care, patient experience, and operationalefficiency within general practice and therefore requires a high level ofmotivation, professionalism, and commitment to service improvement.
About us Chatsworth Road Medical Practice is a friendly, dynamic and innovative practice on the picturesque western edge of Chesterfield, near to the peak district. The Practice is one of the ten practices in The Chesterfield and Dronfield PCN, which is one of the largest Primary Care Networks in the UK, delivering care to over 100,000 patients combined.
Whilst the role is integrated and embedded in one practice, it is part of a larger and growing team of pharmacy professionals across the PCN, that is committed to delivering high quality care for our patients through collaborative working.
We deliver enhanced services within the PCN designed to support and enhance the services offered by our member GP Practices within Chesterfield. We do this by employing staff to work through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme and finding innovative and sustainable solutions to the changing needs of the Practices; we bid for contracts to help tackle health inequalities and drive up standards of care within the Chesterfield and Dronfield locality.
Our mission: Committed to high quality collaborative person-centred care. Delivered with integrity and transparency, improving health and wellbeing for all.
Benefits of working with us:
- 27 days plus 8 Bank Holiday annual leave entitlement which rises annually with length of service up to 33 days (pro rata for part time staff)
- Up 5 days professional/study leave per annum
- Access to Wellbeing/EAP Support
- Blue light Card Discount
Job responsibilities Key duties and responsibilities
Deliver clinics for patients requiringmedication reviews, stratifying the need for technical reviews, medicinesadherence reviews (including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-termcondition/clinical reviews (see section 3) or holistic long-termcondition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews). Provide support forpatients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
2. Medicinesrelated clinical support for care homes
Deliver clinical medication reviews in collaborationwith patients, care home staff, and the Ageing Well team, producing clear andevidencebased recommendations for the multidisciplinary team to supportmedicines optimisation, prescribing, and monitoring. Work collaboratively withcare home staff and the Ageing Well team to optimise medicines management andpromote safe, effective, and appropriate use of medicines, including updatingmedication at transfer of care and investigating and responding to requests formedication not on, or as on, repeat.
Deliver reviews to patients with single ormultiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g.,Respiratory, Cardiovascular-Reno-Metabolic). Review the on-going need for eachmedicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patientswith their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines(i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to SeniorPharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
4.Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews
Deliver clinical medication reviews withpatients in care home or domiciliary settings and produce recommendations for multidisciplinaryteams on (de)prescribing and monitoring.
Identify cohorts of patients at increased riskof harm from medicines using agreed, preprepared practice clinical systemsearches. This may include risks that are patientrelated, medicinerelated, ora combination of both, and will include the use of prescribing and clinicaldecisionsupport software such as Eclipse Live Radar 500 searches.
Where appropriate, pharmacy technicians willbe accountable for reviewing and acting on the outcomes of these searcheswithin their scope of competence, in accordance with agreed protocols. Clinicalpharmacists will provide supervision and support where the management of highriskpatients falls outside the pharmacy technicians competence, and will assumeresponsibility during periods of leave or in exceptional circumstances.
6. Unplanned hospital admissions
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated withunplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individualpatient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of thesemedicines to high-risk patient groups.
7. Management of medicines atdischarge from hospital
Reconcile medicines following discharge fromacute hospitals and intermediate care settings, including identifying,resolving, and appropriately escalating unexplained changes to medicines. Workcollaboratively with patients, carers, community pharmacists, and widerhealthcare professionals to ensure timely access to medicines and continuity ofcare postdischarge, including those requiring medicines compliance aids andresidents of care homes.
Provide mentorship, supervision, andappropriate delegation of medicines reconciliation activities to pharmacytechnicians and junior pharmacists, including foundation pharmacists, in linewith their competence and agreed governance arrangements.
8. Medicine information topractice staff and patients
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiriesfrom GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams
(e.g., community pharmacy) and patients withqueries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providingfollow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
9. Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred to theappropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within anappropriate time period e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions,long term condition reviews etc.
10. Repeat prescribing
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisationprocess by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewingmedicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensurepatients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for thedevelopment and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g.,advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
12. Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issuesand risks to support decision making.
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing inareas directed by the GPs and the PCN team, feedback the results and implementchanges in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
Implement changes to medicines that resultfrom MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
15.Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the localhealth economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines thatshould be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care(amber drugs).
16. Education,Mentoring and Clinical Supervision
Provide education and training toprimary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Mentor,supervise and delegate, as appropriate, clinical workflow to pharmacytechnicians and more junior pharmacists (including foundation pharmacists), tooptimise skill-mix and aid team development.
17.Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices arecompliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
18.Public health
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