Job requirements
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience in service redesign and/or pathway development
- Experience
Demonstrated commitment to patient safety, high-quality care and evidence based practice
- Experience
Demonstrable commitment to improvement, innovation and reflective practice
- Experience
Experience of working across clinical and operational teams across primary care or system-wide settings.
- Experience
Experience of workforce models for Non-Medical Prescribers including competency frameworks, supervision requirements and scope of practice boundaries
- Experience
Experience of audit and quality improvement
- Experience
Significant and evidenced post registration experience
- Experience
Clinical experience of working autonomously within an appropriate setting including physiology, assessment, clinical reason and decision making
- Qualifications
Registered Independent Prescriber with active licence to practice
- Qualifications
Active registration with GPhC
- Qualifications
Independent Prescribing Qualification
- Qualifications
MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice/MSc Pharmacy
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent communication skills that build confidence, collaboration and strong multi-disciplinary relationships
- Skills & Abilities
Ability to provide expert clinical advice on complex prescribing queries and issues
- Skills & Abilities
Competence in developing and delivering training, supervision and professional development for prescribers, including Non-Medical Prescribers
- Skills & Abilities
Mentoring, supervising and supporting Non-Medical Prescribers
- Behaviours & Values
Proactive self-starter with the ability to set and deliver own objectives
- Behaviours & Values
Inclusive and collaborative approach to leadership
- Behaviours & Values
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills across diverse stakeholders
- Behaviours & Values
Positive and flexible approach to work
Desirable
15 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Evidence of developing SOPs and prescribing frameworks
- Experience
Advanced Leadership Qualification
- Experience
Management and leadership experience
- Qualifications
Training in clinical supervision, coaching or workforce development
- Qualifications
Postgraduate clinical diploma
- Qualifications
CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Pathway
- Qualifications
Clinical supervision course
- Qualifications
Leadership Qualification
- Qualifications
Teaching qualification and/or up to date mentorship qualification
- Qualifications
Completed, and continually updated, HEE Multi-professional framework for Advanced Clinical Practice
- Skills & Abilities
Advanced data and information analysis skills including interpretation of prescribing trends, audits and safety data
- Skills & Abilities
Demonstrable experience in clinical leadership, influencing stakeholders and strategic decision making
- Skills & Abilities
Experience in incorporating the patient voice into service and quality improvement
- Behaviours & Values
Commitment to continuous professional development
- Behaviours & Values
Commitment to ongoing leadership development
Job summary
Fixed term contract until 31 March 2026. Applicants must be an independent prescriber with an active GPhC registration.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership to ABC's team of Non-Medical Prescribers including Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Paramedic Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
As ABC continues to recruit and embed non-medical prescribers to support its clinical team, the role will have a strong focus on the integration of these teams to facilitate enhanced team-working and improved service efficiencies and capacity. The role will provide leadership to ABC's non-medical prescribers, including regular clinical supervision and one-to-ones, review of clinical consultations, quality improvement, prescribing, incidents and holistic support and mentorship.
Main duties of the job
Strategic Planning and Service Development
- To provide expert leadership, governance and oversight for all Non-Medical Prescribers and non-medical prescribing activity
- To ensure that non-medical prescribing practice is safe, legally compliant, evidence based and aligned with national and local frameworks
- To lead the development, implementation and evaluation of ABC's non-medical prescribing strategy and appropriate quality improvement projects
- Develop and maintain robust clinical governance arrangements for non-medical prescribing including audits, incident reviews and safety monitoring
About us
Alliance for Better Care (ABC) is a GP Federation uniting 77 NHS GP member practices across 98 sites within 24 Primary Care Networks in Sussex and Surrey. We support our Primary Care colleagues - and their patients - to transform how healthcare is delivered in their communities.
We work closely with GP Practices, PCNs, Hospitals, Community Organisations, and the Third Sector. These vital partnerships enable us to deliver a truly integrated approach that offers the support and expertise needed to effectively serve our populations.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Access to NHS pension
- Bespoke training programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- NHS discounts
- Leadership Development Programme
- Salary sacrifice schemes technology and electric vehicle
- Opportunities for secondments
Details
- Date posted: 07 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £61,309.45 to £73,270.47 a year pro rata, depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 18 months
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: B0141-26-0088
- Job locations: Horley Health Hub, 120 Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey, RH1 1EB, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Quality Improvement and Data Oversight
- Monitor prescribing trends within the non-medical prescribing team
- Ensure service and prescribing audits are completed, reported and actions followed up as necessary
- Identify improvements and developments in non-medical prescribing activity, working closely with the appropriate Service Manager(s) to ensure implementation
Leadership, Workforce Development and Line Management
- Develop and implement competency frameworks, supervision models and CPD plans for Non-Medical Prescribers
- Leading and managing ABC's team of Non-Medical Prescribers including supervision, competency development and performance oversight
- Lead recruitment, induction and performance management of Non-Medical Prescribers
- Support Non-Medical Prescribers in maintaining competence and developing their scope of practice
- Support workforce capability and confidence in prescribing
- To provide structured clinical supervision and guidance to all Non-Medical Prescribers
- To provide and facilitate reflective learning
Key Working Relationships
- Medical Director
- Head of Core Clinical Services
- Service Managers
- Non-Medical Prescribers
- Head of Quality
- ICB Medicine Optimisation Team
Study Leave/Training
There are opportunities for a study leave allowance.
Supervision
Regular supervisions on a one-to-one basis including an annual formal appraisal will be held with a line manager. If you are in a patient-facing role, you will also receive regular Clinical Supervisions with a Clinical Supervisor.
Induction Programme
You will receive an in-depth induction programme and will be invited to a face-to-face induction day within your first week to give you relevant information about the organisation and your job role.
Please see the full job description for further information.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Clinical Lead - Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist with Alliance for Better Care CIC in Horley, England. It is listed as a Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £61309.45 to £73270.47. The contract type is Fixed-Term. The application deadline is 21 Oct 2026.
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