Clinical Pharmacist
Primary Care CareersBedford, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (fixed-term) with Primary Care Careers based in Bedford. The advertised salary is Negotiable. Applications close on 6 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Hillton Primary Care Network in Bedford are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist, to work across the practices within the PCN on a 12 month mat...
- Clinical medicines management.
- Provide face to face/remote structured medication reviews.
- Manage long term conditions ensuring medicines optimisation, review of monitoring needs.
- Management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
- Manage prescription requests including authorisations and reauthorisations.
- Medicines safety and quality improvement, incorporating the use of national tools.
- Ensure both the public health and social care needs of patients within the GP practices.
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Serving approximately 33,000 patients, across Ampthill and Barton-Le-Clay, Hillton PCN strives to develop collaborative working across the three member practices, aiming to support and strengthen the delivery of primary care services in line with the NHS long-term plan. We aim to achieve high standards of patient-centred care as identified for the specific needs of our population, whilst working to support a resilient and appropriately trained workforce. We operate SystmOne clinical system with a good history of QOF achievement and a CQC rating of "good" across all domains. We currently have a paramedic, three clinical pharmacists, a care coordinator, a social prescriber, two first contact physiotherapists and a primary care network manager. We are also recruiting for further roles to support the future of the network.
Essential: - Excellent clinical and medication knowledge.; - Understanding and experience of working as a pharmacist in a GP practice setting, with a confident approach.; - Experience of undertaking medication reviews.; - The commitment to continue to learn and develop.; - The ability to be adaptable and flexible and be a proactive problem solver.; - Excellent inter-personal patient facing communication skills.; - Will hold personal professional indemnity insurance.
Essential: - Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.; - Ideally will have independent prescriber status.
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