Job Description

The post holder will work with support from the Lead Clinical pharmacist and GPs within the Peak Edge Primary Care Network. Engaging with GP Partners and Practice Managers across the 4 Practices covering the Peak Edge Network:
Woodseats Medical Centre
Steel City General Practice
Meadowgreen Health Centre
Sloan Medical Centre
Main duties of the job
Support the delivery of clinical pharmacy services, such as reviewing clinic letters and hospital discharge summaries for changes to medication, either new medication added or medication discontinued. It is also expected that any monitoring requirements arising from a secondary care letter will be noted. Several medications have shared care protocols outlining monitoring requirements, any new shared care arrangement should be agreed by a GP familiar with the shared care protocol. Read codes are often used to add a patient to a particular monitoring.
Increase the quality and safety of prescribing through medicine safety initiative and project work.
Deal with patient and healthcare professionals medication related queries.
Action MHRA and CAS Alerts
About us
This role will be part of Peak Edge Primary Care Network.
You will be part of the established pharmacy team.
Details
Date posted
03 October 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
30,500 to 35,500 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
A0963-25-0005
Job locations
Jordanthorpe Health Centre
1 Dyche Close
Sheffield
S8 8DJ
Baslow Road Surgery
Baslow Road
Sheffield
S17 4DR
Woodseats Medical Centre
900 Chesterfield Road
Sheffield
S8 0SH
Sloan Medical Centre
2 Little London Road
Sheffield
S8 0YH
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
Support the clinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e., organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
Manage shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complex patients.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
Technical
Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
Implement efficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.
Provide training and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering
Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QoF and locally commissioned enhanced services Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
Support the clinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e., organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
Manage shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complex patients.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
Technical
Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
Implement efficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.
Provide training and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering
Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QoF and locally commissioned enhanced services
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
• Able to effectively manage allocated resources.
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals.
• Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.

Desirable

• Experience in Primary Care
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN.
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)

Desirable

• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
• Able to effectively manage allocated resources.
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals.
• Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.

Desirable

• Experience in Primary Care
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN.
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)

Desirable

• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.

Skills Required