Clinical Pharmacist

National Health Service; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working options

Training and CPD opportunities

Career progression

Supportive MDT and team culture

Job summary

The Vale Medical Practice is a forward-thinking GP practice delivering care across two sites: Wootton Vale Surgery and Shortstown Surgery. The role is full-time with flexible working and focuses on medicines optimisation, chronic disease management, and improving prescribing quality alongside GPs, nurses, trainees and the MDT.

You will lead structured medication reviews, support hospital discharge reconciliation, and provide medicines advice, while contributing to service development, teaching,

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with the GPhC and current UK registration.
• Strong clinical knowledge with a focus on primary care and medicines optimisation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within an MDT.
• Independent prescriber qualification or actively working towards.
• Experience in primary care settings (GP practice, PCN, ICB role).
• Familiarity with primary care systems such as SystmOne, AccuRx, or similar.
• Postgraduate clinical qualification or CPPE pathways progress.

Responsibilities

• Undertake structured medication reviews (SMRs) for polypharmacy, frailty or complex long-term conditions.
• Support medication reconciliation after hospital discharge.
• Provide expert medicines advice to clinicians and patients.
• Contribute to long-term condition management within your scope of competence.
• Support repeat prescribing processes, medication queries and prescribing safety checks.
• Promote evidence-based prescribing and participate in audits and quality improvement work.
• Implement local and national prescribing priorities (ICB, QOF, IIF).
• Review high-risk medicines and support appropriate monitoring.
• Deliver patient-facing clinics (hypertension reviews, inhaler technique, medicines counselling) as experience allows.
• Work collaboratively within the MDT and support trainees and junior colleagues.
• Participate in practice-based projects including research and innovation initiatives.

Skills

GPhC registration

Clinical knowledge in primary care

Medicines optimisation

Communication skills

Independent prescriber

Autonomy and MDT collaboration

Experience in GP practice/PCN/ICB

Familiarity with SystmOne/AccuRx

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Education

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Job description

Job summary

The Vale Medical Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive GP team, across our two sites, Wootton Vale Surgery and Shortstown Surgery. The role is offered on a full-time basis, with flexible working considered. You will play a key role in medicines optimisation, long-term condition management, and improving prescribing quality, while working closely with GPs, nurses, trainees, and the wider multidisciplinary team. This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist who is passionate about patient care, enjoys clinical variety, and is keen to contribute to service development, teaching, and innovation within primary care.

Key responsibilities include

• Undertake structured medication reviews (SMRs), particularly for patients with polypharmacy, frailty, or complex long-term conditions
• Support medication reconciliation following hospital discharge
• Provide expert medicines advice to clinicians and patients
• Contribute to long-term condition management within your scope of competence
• Support repeat prescribing processes, medication queries, and prescribing safety checks
• Promote evidence-based prescribing and contribute to audit and quality improvement work
• Implement local and national prescribing priorities (e.g. ICB initiatives, QOF, IIF)
• Review high-risk medicines and support appropriate monitoring
• Deliver patient-facing clinics (e.g. hypertension reviews, inhaler technique, medicines counselling), depending on experience
• Work collaboratively within the MDT, including supporting trainees and junior colleagues
• Opportunity to be involved in practice-based projects, including research and innovation initiatives

About us

The Vale Medical Practice is a forward-thinking, community-focused GP practice serving the villages of Marston Vale and surrounding areas. We operate across two well-established sites and pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, patient-centered care through collaboration, innovation, and continual improvement. We are a training practice, recently research-ready, and actively investing in the development of our multidisciplinary team. As part of an exciting phase of organisational change, we are moving away from traditional, siloed ways of working towards a competency-based, whole-patient model of care. This role is ideal for someone who embraces change, enjoys shaping services, and wants to help redefine how primary care is delivered.

What we offer

• A supportive, innovative, and welcoming GP team
• Opportunities for training, CPD, and career progression
• Competitive salary and NHS pension scheme
• Flexible working options, including opportunities within Enhanced Access services
• A positive team culture that genuinely values innovation, learning, and patient-centered care

Pay scheme

OtherSalary Depending on experience - competitive, DOE

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Job locations

Fields Road, Wootton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK43 9JJ, United Kingdom

Person Specification

All applicants should have the following qualifications, skills and experience.

• Registered pharmacist with the GPhC
• Strong clinical knowledge with a genuine interest in primary care
• Sound understanding of medicines optimisation principles
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within an MDT
• Independent prescriber qualification or actively working towards
• Experience in primary care settings e.g. GP practice, PCN, ICB role
• Familiarity with primary care systems such as SystmOne, AccuRx, or similar
• Postgraduate clinical qualification or progress through CPPE pathways

You will be a proactive, patient-focused clinical professional who enjoys working as part of a team and is motivated by improving systems, services, and outcomes. You will be comfortable with change, keen to develop others, and enthusiastic about using new approaches to optimise medicines management and patient care. Experience or interest in research within primary care is desirable.

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

Primary Care Careers

Address: Fields Road, Wootton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK43 9JJ, United Kingdom

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