LS25/26 PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary
Proposed interview date 30th September 2026

We are looking for a further clinical pharmacist to join the existing LS25/26 PCN pharmacy team. The team consists of 1 lead pharmacist, 1 senior pharmacist, 5 clinical pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians, who are well supported by 2 Clinical Directors.

This role will be hosted by South & East Leeds (SEL) GP Group, and you will be working in the LS25/26 PCN.

LS25/26 PCN has a patient population of circa 75,000 across 7 practices: Garforth Medical Practice, Gibson Lane Practice, Kippax Hall Surgery, Lofthouse Surgery, Moorfield House Surgery, Nova Scotia Medical Centre and Oulton Medical Centre.

We are a dynamic, forward thinking PCN team who are passionate about developing and delivering excellent quality local services to meet the needs of our patients. Please have a look at our website to find out more about our team, projects, services, and partners. (

We are excited to be recruiting an additional pharmacist for our PCN. The successful candidate will join our experienced and diverse PCN team, which in addition to pharmacists/pharmacy technicians includes Advanced Nurse Practitioners, social prescribers, health and wellbeing coaches, care coordinators and physiotherapists.

Main duties of the job
The pharmacy team aims to provide the best patient care possible. You will work in a patient-facing role, supporting patients to manage long-term conditions effectively through Structured Medication Reviews. You will work as part of the MDT and provide support to practices, care homes and patients with medication queries, medicines policies and procedures, QOF/local incentive schemes, prescribing processes, audit and medicines safety.

You will be a great team player, but also capable of independent, autonomous work. You will have excellent inter-personal skills. You will have excellent communication skills and be committed to providing exceptional patient care. There are plenty of support and training opportunities available.

The role will be a mixture of working in practice and from home. Pharmacists from any sector with a passion for primary care are welcome to apply.

Clinical Pharmacist Salary: £39959- £48117, dependent upon experience. We are willing to consider newly qualified pharmacist for this role.

About us
SEL GP Group employs PCN posts on behalf of our seven member PCNs. We employ an established team of PCN pharmacists and technicians and are well placed to support you in this new role.

SEL GP Group is the ideal employer for these roles as you will benefit from substantial peer support with an extended team of 24 pharmacists and 7 technicians. You will be supported with mentoring from the Head of Clinical Pharmacy and our Education & Training Pharmacist, who provide regular peer support meetings involving all the PCN pharmacists and technicians, as well as a separate technician meeting helping to build relationships and learn from each other's experiences. Additionally, you will be part of the citywide Leeds GP Pharmacy Network, which has 100+ members.

Job responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities
(Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS England that this role is patient-facing in nature.

• Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. These reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the PCN, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.
• Medicines quality improvement
  Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the PCN, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
  Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups
• Medicines safety
  Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
  Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Patient facing medicines support
  Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Telephone medicines support
  Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
• Management of medicines at change of care setting
  Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients
  Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
• Drug monitoring
  Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health Economy.
• Signposting
  Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
• Repeat prescribing
  Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy, and streamline these across the PCN where possible. You may be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required.
• Service development
  Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
• Information management
  Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Education and Training
  Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Care Quality Commission
  Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Public health
  Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
• Collaborative working arrangements
  Work collaboratively with their PCN Clinical Director.
  Participate in the PCN MDT.
  Liaise with the Leeds GP Confederation Clinical Pharmacy team to benefit from peer support.
  Liaise with CCG Medicines Commissioning colleagues on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
  Engage with the Leeds Practice Pharmacist and Technician Network and with the other SEL GP-employed pharmacists for peer support.
  Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks.
  Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
  Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including but not limited to :
  Patients and their representatives
  GP, nurses and other practice staff
  Social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics.
  Community pharmacists and support staff
  Locality / GP prescribing lead
  Locality managers
  Community nurses and other allied health professionals
  Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
• Professional development
  Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities.
  Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.
  Work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present.
  Review yearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes.
  Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keep up to date with relevant clinical practice.
• Research and Evaluation
  Critically evaluate and review literature.
  Identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.
  Generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.
  Apply research evidence base into the workplace.
• Health and Safety/Risk Management
  Must comply at all times with the Health and Safety policies, in particular following safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting Systems
  Comply with the Data Protection Act (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).
• Special working conditions
  The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.
  The post-holder will have contact with body fluids, i.e. wound exudates, urine etc while in clinical practice.
  The post-holder is likely to need to visit patients in their own home.
• Miscellaneous
  Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning.
  Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
  Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.
• Equality and Diversity
  The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc
• Respect for Patient Confidentiality
  The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Person Specification
Personal Qualities & Attributes
Essential

• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Desirable

• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Professional registration
Essential

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Other
Essential

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Adaptable
• Evidence of being a great team-player
• Self Motivation
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Immunisation status
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualifications & TrainingCompletion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Desirable

• Holds or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Successful completion of the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway

Skills and knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• 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
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Understand the principles of research governance

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
South and East Leeds GP Group

Address
Hosted Employers address
1st Floor Park Edge Practice
Asket Drive
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS14 1HX
United Kingdom

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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Business Administrator
Rebecca Aveyard
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Details
Date posted
03 September 2026

Pay scheme
Other

Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Depending on experience

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time,
Flexible working

Reference number
U0053-26-0030

Job locations
Hosted Employers address
1st Floor Park Edge Practice
Asket Drive
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS14 1HX
United Kingdom

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.