PCN Clinical Pharmacist @ Churchmere Medical Group

Job description Job responsibilities Core Clinical ResponsibilitiesRepeat Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation - You'll take clinical ownership of the repeat prescription requests that come to you, reviewing them with a clinical eye, identifying opportunities to optimise, deprescribe or intervene, and helping ensure the repeat prescribing process is a driver of patient safety rather than an administrative function. Where you hold an independent prescribing qualification, you'll authorise prescriptions directly.Medicines Reconciliation - You'll carry out medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, outpatient appointments and transfers of care, identifying and resolving discrepancies, reducing the risk of medicines-related harm at points of transition, and ensuring patients receive the medicines they need when they need them.Structured Medication Reviews - You'll conduct structured medication reviews with patients who have complex polypharmacy and multi-morbidity, reviewing the ongoing need for each medicine, identifying monitoring gaps, and implementing prescribing changes where you are qualified to do so. The goal is better outcomes for patients, not completed templates.Long-Term Condition Management - You'll run clinics and manage your own caseload for patients with long-term conditions where medicines play a central role, including conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, COPD, heart failure and anticoagulation. You'll work proactively to keep patients well managed, reducing avoidable GP appointments and unplanned hospital admissions.Medicines Safety - You'll contribute to the practice's medicines safety work, including MHRA safety alerts, ECLIPSE monitoring, high-risk drug audits, and risk stratification searches to identify patients at elevated risk of medicines-related harm. This is owned work, not reactive work.Patient-Facing Medicines Support - You'll provide direct support to patients with questions, concerns or queries about their medicines, by telephone and face to face, reducing the burden on GPs and reception teams while improving patients' understanding of and engagement with their treatment.Care Home Medicines Support - You'll support care home patients within your practice population, conducting medication reviews, supporting proxy ordering arrangements, advising care home staff on medicines-related matters, and working proactively with care home teams to reduce medicines-related risk.QOF and Enhanced Services - You'll play an active role in QOF delivery, not as an end-of-year task, but as an embedded, year-round function of your clinical work. Through repeat prescribing, medication reviews and proactive patient management, you'll help the practice consistently meet its quality indicators.Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Guidelines - You'll be a source of medicines expertise for the practice team, offering advice and guidance to GPs, nurses and other clinical and administrative colleagues on medicines-related matters. You'll contribute to antimicrobial stewardship and support the implementation of local and national prescribing guidelines, helping build a culture where medicines are managed to the highest standard.--------------------------------------------------Independent PrescribingIf you hold an independent prescribing qualification, you'll use it fully in this role. You'll have the clinical autonomy and system access to prescribe directly, reducing unnecessary GP involvement in routine medicines decisions and freeing GP time for the complex clinical work that requires it.If you are working towards your independent prescribing qualification, we will actively support you to complete it, including access to a Designated Prescribing Practitioner where possible