The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC
PCN Clinical Pharmacist (IP Qualified)
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PCN Clinical Pharmacist (IP Qualified)
Clinical Pharmacist – Primary Care Network (PCN)
About Us
The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company working with General Practice and healthcare providers to deliver its vision of:
“Hillingdon to deliver the best primary care outcomes for patients in the whole of London.”
We: ⏢ Support GP practices, PCNs, and local neighbourhoods in evolving needs ⏢ Deliver scalable clinical services across primary care ⏢ Act as the provider representative voice for local General Practice in the broader NHS ⏢ Commit to fostering an attractive, progressive work culture to retain high-performing staff
Our core values drive all our efforts to embed excellence in care.
Job Summary
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to:
- Develop and refine processes for repeat prescription re-authorisation, transfer of care medicines management, and safer prescribing
- Conduct direct patient consultations to:
- Assess & manage acute and long-term conditions
- Promote self-care and medicine optimisation
- Follow a structured 18-month Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (via CPPE)
- Obtain an Independent Prescriber qualification (or demonstrate exemption via HEE requirements, e.g. Clinical Diploma).
You will:
✔ Collaborate under a Clinical Pharmacist Manager & mentor ✔ Contribute to quality improvement in prescribing practices ✔ Drive safe, evidence-based decisions and clinically-effective medicines use
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Services
- Proactively manage polypharmacy via clinical medication reviews with patients (in practices, care homes, or domiciliary visits).
- Conduct targeted medication reviews for high-risk medicines (e.g. respiratory, cardiovascular, diabetes).
- Deliver multidisciplinary clinics via face-to-face, telephone, home visits, and video consultations.
- Lead de-prescribing interventions and medicines optimisation workstreams to support:
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Reviews of long-term medicines use
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Medicine adherence support
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Rationalisation recommendations for optimised prescribing
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Streamline onward referrals for specialist care, pathology reviews, or NHS pathway escalations.
Patient Support & De-escalation
- Provide telephone medicines helplines addressing patient concerns.
- Offer clinical guidance to patients/carers on self-care, appropriate monitoring, and side effects.
- Coordinate activities with community pharmacists and follow-on support (e.g. compliance aid provision).
Systems & Medication Continuity
- Introduce repeat prescribing policies for PCN practices:
- Review patient requestations for repeat medications
- Flag live review requests
- Conduct individualised re-authorisation audits
- Develop strategies for continuity of supply to vulnerable patients (e.g. care homes, care assist device users).
Audit & Compliance
- Audit high-risk prescribing (e.g. medicines liable for re-admission) via clinical reviews.
- Redesign prescribing pathways to eliminate excess confusion or unnecessary discharges.
- Ensure practices follow CQC/CGP standards and MHRA/alert guidance on medicines.
- Implement nursing protocols and GP-compliantections
Medicines Optimisation
- Lead catastrophes in safety critical areas (e.g. litigation safety focussed care and confidence-building)
- Auditing services compliance against NICE and national standards on medicines.
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Collaborative Working Relationships
As a member of the PCN multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will:
➡ Fernish multi-agency partnerships by liaising with:
- Primary care pharmacists, nurses, GPs
- CCGs and local primary care networks
- Community/hospital pharmacy teams
- Care home staff/management
➡ Embed collaborative workflows with pharmacists, technicians, dietitians, and patient-facing physicians.
➡ Demonstrate clear, professional stakeholder communication — particularly with grantees needing escalation (e.g. first-contact physiotherapists, social care teams).
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Qualified degree (MPharɱ) or equivalent
- Independent prescriber or actively working toward gaining qualification
- ≥ 2 years’ post-qualification experience in NHS primary/secondary care.
- Demonstrated understanding of general practice (including companion multi-doctor practices).
- Calculus of primary-care prescribing (rational strategies, optimisation).
- Up-to-date Hepatitis B immunisation.
Desirable Criteria
- Membership (or pursuit) of the **Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Specialist post-graduate qualification, diploma (or relevant experience) in a medical field.
- Specific clinical competency in high-risk groups (e.g. elderly, diabetic, respiratory).
- Extensive skills in evidence-based pathways or clinical decision support.
(Equal opportunities apply.)
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