Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Bedford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bedford is seeking a full-time clinical pharmacist to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves managing clinical medicines, conducting medication reviews, and ensuring the quality of care within GP practices. Ideal candidates should hold a pharmacy degree and have experience in a GP setting. This position offers the opportunity to work collaboratively in a supportive environment focused on delivering excellent patient care.

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Understanding and experience of working as a pharmacist in a GP practice setting.
• Will hold personal professional indemnity insurance.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in clinical medicines management.
• Conduct structured medication reviews.
• Manage long term conditions and ensure medicines optimisation.
• Ensure public health and social care needs of patients are met.

Skills

Clinical medicines management

Medication reviews

Communication skills

Adaptability

Education

Degree in pharmacy

Independent prescriber status (preferable)

Job description

Hillton Primary Care Network in Bedford are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist, to work across the practices within the PCN. This role is offered on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week. You will play a full and active role within the PCN multidisciplinary team. This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so require motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. Training on local services will be provided.

You will provide care, delivered autonomously but from within a supportive clinical team, working within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

To provide expertise in the following areas:

• 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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Ideally will have independent prescriber status.

Experience

• 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.

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.