# Primary Care Network Pharmacist, Band 8a WISE 2 - (1 Year Secondment) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-network-pharmacist-band-8a-wise-2-1-year-secondment/4704f1e4-6ea5-4fde-98da-9cd59638e549 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-network-pharmacist-band-8a-wise-2-1-year-secondment/4704f1e4-6ea5-4fde-98da-9cd59638e549.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Chertsey - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £59,798 - £67,020 per annum inc. HCAS pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (1 Year Secondment/Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 11.75 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-17T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-06T09:00:54.760Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Woking/Ashford_St_Peters_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8068938 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8068938?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you proactive with good clinical skills and enjoy working in an exciting, developing environment?   Are you interested in managing chronic diseases and following the patient journey from hospital to home? If so, talk to us. We are looking to recruit a clinical pharmacist interested in developing their career in primary care, improving patient outcomes, reducing prescribing variation and ensuring patient safety. With the increasing burden of polypharmacy and complex co-morbidities, we are looking for a pharmacist with a keen understanding of balancing risks and benefits in relation to medicines and patient circumstances. The position involves working  part time within WISE 2 PCN; at Sunny Meed Surgery as a 1 year fixed term secondment. You will be motivated, and passionate about patient care with excellent communication skills to work with a multi-disciplinary team across the locality to optimise medications with a patient-centred approach. This pharmacist post is a great opportunity for pharmacists wishing to develop their career. You will ideally be a prescriber with experience of working within hospital or primary care. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be responsible for: - Support delivery of medicines related QoF and CQC indicators, local prescribing incentive scheme and medicines safety agenda - Support the practice with chronic disease management and day-to-day medicines related queries - Promoting cost effective and evidence based prescribing, following national and local  guidelines. - Supporting the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES with a particular focus on the structured medications review and optimisation specification and the enhanced health in care homes specification. - Support medicines optimisation across the interface and within the PCN - Improve medicines safety and patient outcomes relating to medicines. - Support in the management of chronic diseases, antimicrobial stewardship and polypharmacy - To support the networking, education and development of trainee and foundation pharmacist - The position is based solely at Sunny Meed GP practice ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Support the delivery of the medicines related QoF and CQC indicators, local prescribing incentive scheme and medicines safety agenda - Support the practice with chronic disease management and day-to-day medicines related queries - Promoting cost effective and evidence-based prescribing, following national and local prescribing and safety guidelines. - Supporting the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES with a particular focus on the structured medications review and optimisation specification and the enhanced health in care homes specification. - Improve use of medicines across the system, this may include but not be limited to: Inappropriate use of antibiotics Polypharmacy Medicines optimisation in chronic diseases such as Asthma / COPD and cardiovascular disease Medicines at risk of misuse Care Home residents Management of medicines after discharge from hospital, reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and manages these changes without referral to a GP Medicines Safety Reducing waste and sustainability Cost effective and evidence base prescribing. - Inappropriate use of antibiotics - Polypharmacy - Medicines optimisation in chronic diseases such as Asthma / COPD and cardiovascular disease - Medicines at risk of misuse - Care Home residents - Management of medicines after discharge from hospital, reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and manages these changes without referral to a GP - Medicines Safety - Reducing waste and sustainability - Cost effective and evidence base prescribing. - Support medicines optimisation across the interface and within the PCN - To participate in specified interface project/audits, according to need that supports medicines optimisation activities - Management of medicines after discharge from hospital, reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and manages these changes - Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individualised patient reviews. - Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups. - To support the networking, education and development of trainee and foundation pharmacist / technicians - Work in partnership with secondary care colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before discharge to ensure continuity of care. - Collaborate with pharmacy colleagues across the different sectors to ensure medicines optimisation across the interface. - Supporting further integration of general practice with the wide healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes - Manage the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines and, liaison with specialist pharmacists. - To maintain registration, as a pharmacist, with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and to act in accordance with the code of ethics. - The post holder agrees to participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) including further training and learning in order to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values to become competent in the duties described. To undertake peer review and competency-based assessment to ensure required standards of service are maintained. - Be involved in clinical pharmacy training/teaching to pre-registration pharmacists, technicians, ATOs and junior pharmacists. - Provide pharmaceutical education and training to other healthcare staff in all areas to which you have a responsibility. - To follow all Health and Safety standards in compliance with Trust and PCN policies and procedures. This includes: - Report all accidents, incidents and near misses - Dealing with hazardous chemicals (including cytotoxic drugs) used in the department, following COSHH regulations. - Develop, review and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) accurately. - Maintain accurate manual and computer records. - Housekeeping duties - Ensure professional and legal standards are adhered t - MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST: - Undertaking further education required for the role including CPPE Primary Care Pathway and Independent prescribing. Other: All Pharmacy staff will maintain confidentiality with regard to any information about patients, confidential information about the Trust and commercial information (for example, contract prices for drugs) It is the responsibility of every employee to take reasonable care of their own health and safety and the health and safety of anyone else who may be affected by what they do. This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of the Trust and in consultation with the post-holder. Your hours are based on a whole time week of 37.5 hours. Hours are calculated excluding meal breaks and are to be worked in accordance with the needs of the service and as agreed with your manager. The Trust operates a 24 hour 365 day per year service. The way in which the contracted hours are worked may change in accordance with the needs of the service, following consultation General responsibilities - To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of treating and managing chronic diseases in primary care **Desirable** - Knowledge of the medicines related CQC domains for general practice ### Experience **Essential** - Working in primary care setting - Experience in use EMIS computer software system ### Qualifications **Essential** - M Pharm degree or equivalent - Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience - GPhC registration **Desirable** - Independent prescribing qualification ## Documents - [person specification (pdf, 208.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10360140) - [job description - pcn pharmacist (pdf, 824.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10360139) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.