Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Minimum of two years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Experience
Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- Experience
Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams community groups
- Experience
Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
- Qualifications
Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Qualifications
Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Qualifications
Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Knowledge and Skills
Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
- Knowledge and Skills
Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Knowledge and Skills
An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Knowledge and Skills
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
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Knowledge and Skills
Understand the principles of research governance
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Clinical Diploma
Job summary
We are looking for Clinical Pharmacist to work with Cranbrook PCN. You will be responsible for their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while ad-dressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. You will have a chance to make a difference everyday and deliver exceptional service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP's that make up the PCN The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co- morbidities This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an 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
About us
Our mission in Redbridge is to strengthen, develop and support local general practice, to enable the delivery of high-quality care to local people. We are in the very fortunate position where all 4 of the Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Redbridge are working together as part of the Redbridge-wide GP federation Healthbridge Direct. We are now at the very start of an exciting journey of building a team of over 100 additional clinical roles to support and enable the delivery of services within each of our 4 PCNs. We are building teams within and across the PCNs to enable peer support and team working both within and across professions. We have a unique opportunity in Redbridge to create something special and we want you to be part of it. We have the infrastructure, the relationships and the potential to create a team that will make a significant difference to GP practices, to outcomes for local populations, and to individual lives for patients across Redbridge
Details
- Date posted: 27 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 1 years
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: B0285-26-0031
- Job locations: 53-63 Redbridge Lane East, Ilford, Redbridge, IG4 5EY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co- morbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an 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.
UK Registration
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist - Cranbrook with HealthBridge Direct in Ilford, England. It is listed as a Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is Fixed-Term. The application deadline is 11 Sep 2026.
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