PCN Pharmacist
Primary Care Careers
The closing date is 10 May 2025
Job summary
Chelmsford West PCN are seeking a full-time, qualified pharmacist to join their team at Chelmer Medical Partnership to work across their three surgeries, Tennyson House, Humber Road and Melbourne House.
The post holder will act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside the practice multidisciplinary teams in a patient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients.
The role is pivotal to improving quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. Ideally the post holder will be a non-medical prescriber; if this is not the case the post holder will be supported to develop their role to achieve this.
Main duties of the job
- Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
- Assist with repeat prescriptions.
- Deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
- Provide expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices.
- Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and will manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
About us
Chelmsford West Primary Care Network (PCN) is a group of 2 GP practices, working across 4 sites. The aim of Chelmsford West PCN is to offer patient-centred healthcare through the commitment to bringing together GP practices so that they can work, more effectively, with others. There is strong evidence that health outcomes are socially determined and that the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and grow old influence their health. We enjoy multidisciplinary teamworking and the opportunities that collaborative working in a PCN provides.
We can offer 6 weeks' annual leave (pro-rata if part-time) and NHS pension.
You can find out more about our PCN at our website: www.chelmsfordwestpcn.nhs.uk
Date posted
15 April 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
28527
Job locations
Merlin Place
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4HW
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
Merlin Place
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4HW
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)