Job Summary
We are delighted to recruit an additional Clinical Pharmacist to join our established PCN Pharmacy Team.
We are looking for
- an experienced non-medical prescriber, or Pharmacist prepared to work towards this qualification.
- a candidate who is interested in supporting the networks population health priorities and requirements of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service.
- a keen team player.
We can offer you
- clinical leadership and peer support from experienced Pharmacists within the PCN and countywide.
- established working relationships with general practice teams.
- Pharmacy Technician support.
- Opportunities to develop your clinical practice.
Herefordshire is a very special place to live and work. This beautiful, green county is uniquely placed with providers across the system committed toworking together to improve the health and wellbeing of Herefordshire people and provide more joined up care closer to home.We are
OneHerefordshire.
* This is a part time position working 27.5 hours per week*
*Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 28th July 2025*
Main duties of the job
As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will be expected to provide prescribing advice and support to practice clinicians, staff, and patients. This includes prescription and medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF and local incentive schemes, audit, and medicines safety.
Clinical work at the individual practices will include medication reviews, minor illness consultations and reviews post discharge.
You will have individual supervision from a GP and our Lead Pharmacist and be part of an established team of experienced Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. In Herefordshire we take a collaborative approach across system partners e.g. other practices, PCNs, care homes and the Acute/Community Trust.To discuss the role, ask questions or arrange an informal visit please contact WBC Lead Pharmacist, Damsel Kuriakose
About Us
WBC Primary Care Network includes 3 Hereford city - based practices; Wargrave House Surgery, Belmont Medical Centre and Cantilupe Surgery. As a small network, we are very fortunate to be able to work closely together to understand the shared needs of our patient population and directly implement new ways of providing excellent patient care.
Primary Care Network staff are employed by Taurus Healthcare on their behalf. Taurus was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
Details
Date posted
01 July 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£47,613.19 to £51,400.61 a year Pro rata - subject to training and experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
S0001-25-0037
Job locations
Taurus Healthcare Ltd
Whitecross Road
Hereford
HR4 0DG
Job Description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:
- Enhancing Health in Care Homes.
- Management of long-term conditions.
- Minor illness.
- Management of medicines on transfer of care.
- Reviewing systems for safer prescribing.
- Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.
- Actioning acute prescription requests.
- Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients.
- Contributing to achievement of QOF and local quality improvement schemes.
- Undertaking clinical audits.
The post-holder will provide support to any clinical pharmacists employed in the PCN in the future.
The specifics of the role in each PCN will be worked up between the post-holder and the PCN.
The post holder will be supported at organizational level by a GP clinical mentor and the Lead Pharmacist for Primary Care Networks. They will also be supported by the Lead PCN Pharmacist. They will also engage with peers across Herefordshire PCNs.
The Pharmacist will ensure that PCN Practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy and help utilise skill mix to improve patient outcomes and ensure better access to healthcare, and 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.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held, and will be required to enroll on the General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, unless an equivalent qualification is already held or exemption is agreed by CPPE.
* A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert*
Job Description
Job responsibilities
The Post Holder Will Work Within Their Clinical Competencies As Part Of a Multi-disciplinary Team To Provide Expertise In Clinical Medicines Optimisation Across The PCN. This Will Include Structured Medication Reviews With Direct Patient Contact And May Include Contributing To:
- Enhancing Health in Care Homes.
- Management of long-term conditions.
- Minor illness.
- Management of medicines on transfer of care.
- Reviewing systems for safer prescribing.
- Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation.
- Actioning acute prescription requests.
- Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients.
- Contributing to achievement of QOF and local quality improvement schemes.
- Undertaking clinical audits.
The post-holder will provide support to any clinical pharmacists employed in the PCN in the future.
The specifics of the role in each PCN will be worked up between the post-holder and the PCN.
The post holder will be supported at organizational level by a GP clinical mentor and the Lead Pharmacist for Primary Care Networks. They will also be supported by the Lead PCN Pharmacist. They will also engage with peers across Herefordshire PCNs.
The Pharmacist will ensure that PCN Practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy and help utilise skill mix to improve patient outcomes and ensure better access to healthcare, and 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.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held, and will be required to enroll on the General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, unless an equivalent qualification is already held or exemption is agreed by CPPE.
* A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
Desirable
- Holds or working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
- Successful completion of the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist
- Training Pathway.
Essential
Other Job Requirements
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
- Adaptable.
- Work effectively independently and as a team player.
- Self-motivated.
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training.
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes.
Desirable
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association -PCPA.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Personal Qualities & Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities.
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co- operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer
- colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS,
- private organisations,
- e.g. CCGs.
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleagues when necessary.
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with
- individuals.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure.
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines.
- High level of written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative.
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including
- confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.
- Demonstrates leadership experience and previous experience of supervising and mentoring more junior staff.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
Experience
Essential
- Qualified pharmacist demonstrably established as practicing at an advanced level, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
Desirable
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and
- long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building
- relationships across a variety of organisations.
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive
- information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Able to 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.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
- Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Understand the principles of research governance.
Person Specification
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive
- information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Able to 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.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
- Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Understand the principles of research governance.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Taurus Healthcare Limited
Address
Taurus Healthcare Ltd
Whitecross Road
Hereford
HR4 0DG
Employer's website
https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Taurus Healthcare Limited
Address
Taurus Healthcare Ltd
Whitecross Road
Hereford
HR4 0DG
Employer's website
https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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