Clinical Pharmacist ARC Primary Care Network

Job summary

ARC Bucks Primary Care Network

Clinical Pharmacist

Salary: From £55,000 (Dependent on Experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours Monday to Friday (part time considered)

Base: Penn Surgery HP10 8LQ with travel across Arc Bucks PCN practices

NHS Pension

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata

Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential support

The Opportunity

This isn't just another Clinical Pharmacist role.

This is an opportunity to become part of a growing, forward-thinking pharmacy team that is transforming how primary care is delivered across Arc Bucks PCN.

Main duties of the job

We're bringing our pharmacy service in-house to work alongside our existing in-house pharmacy team, investing in a model that gives pharmacists the opportunity to use their full clinical skills. You'll work alongside GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals to deliver proactive, patient-centred care that genuinely improves outcomes.

Whether you're already an experienced Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist or looking to develop your career within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you'll have the opportunity to influence patient care, develop specialist interests and make a visible difference every day.

You'll be trusted to use your clinical judgement.

You'll be encouraged to innovate.

Most importantly, you'll be joining a team that values collaboration, continuous learning and delivering outstanding care for our patients.

Purpose of the Role

To improve patient outcomes through expert medicines optimisation, high-quality clinical care and proactive management of long-term conditions across Arc Bucks Primary Care Network.

Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you'll help ensure patients receive safe, effective and evidence-based prescribing while supporting practices to deliver excellent, sustainable primary care.

About us

FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 550,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting general practice.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced background check (e.g., DBS) prior to appointment, and regular safeguarding training will be provided and required.

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Patient Facing Clinical Care

• Deliver structured medication reviews for patients with complex needs and polypharmacy.
• Manage long-term condition clinics including asthma, COPD, hypertension and other chronic diseases.
• Facilitate group consultations providing clinical expertise around medication use in chronic diseases.
• Undertake medicines optimisation reviews for care home residents and housebound patients.
• Support proactive care planning and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Provide expert medicines advice to patients, carers and colleagues.

Medicines Optimisation

• Improve prescribing quality, safety and cost-effectiveness across the PCN.
• Identify patients at risk from medicines through clinical searches and population health tools.
• Support medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge.
• Implement MHRA safety alerts and national prescribing guidance.
• Reduce medicines waste and improve adherence through patient-centred consultations.

Quality Improvement

• Participate in prescribing audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support delivery of QOF, IIF and other contractual priorities.
• Contribute to development of pharmacy-led services.
• Help standardise medicines management processes across practices.

Working Together

• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Build strong relationships with community pharmacies, secondary care and system partners.
• Contribute to education and medicines optimisation training within practices.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning.

What Were Looking For

Essential

Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.

Independent Prescriber qualification, or willingness to undertake training.

Experience working within primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.

Excellent clinical knowledge and commitment to evidence-based prescribing.

Strong communication and consultation skills.

Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.

Experience using EMIS GP Clinical System

Desirable

Experience undertaking Structured Medication Reviews.

Experience working within Primary Care Networks or General Practice.

Long term condition management experience.

Clinical audit and quality improvement experience.

Teaching or mentoring experience.

What We Offer

The opportunity to help shape a new, expanding in-house pharmacy service.

. Support in completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway

A supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team.

Protected time for learning and professional development.

Clinical supervision and peer support.

A varied role combining patient care, service development and quality improvement.

The opportunity to make a genuine difference to patient outcomes across the PCN.

About Arc Bucks PCN

Arc Bucks Primary Care Network serves around 50,000 patients across four GP practices in South Buckinghamshire.

We are committed to delivering innovative, high-quality primary care through collaboration, continuous improvement and making the very best use of our multidisciplinary workforce.

Our vision is to build an outstanding pharmacy service where pharmacists and pharmacy technicians work at the top of their professional competence, improving patient outcomes while supporting sustainable general practice.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience working within primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and commitment to evidence-based prescribing.
• Strong communication and consultation skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience using EMIS GP Clinical System

Desirable

• Experience undertaking Structured Medication Reviews.
• Experience working within Primary Care Networks or General Practice.
• Long-term condition management experience.
• Clinical audit and quality improvement experience.
• Teaching or mentoring experience.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.
• Independent Prescriber qualification, or willingness to undertake training.