Clinical Pharmacist

Primary Care Careers; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bedford is looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to work full-time across their practices. This pivotal role involves improving care quality and operational efficiency, participating in a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include managing medications, conducting medication reviews, and overseeing safe prescribing practices. The ideal candidate should demonstrate motivation and passion for delivering excellent healthcare. Competitive compensation and professional development opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist required for multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in managing long term conditions and medication optimization is necessary.
• Ability to deliver care autonomously, while being part of a supportive clinical team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical medicines management across the practices.
• Conduct structured medication reviews face to face and remotely.
• Manage and optimize medicines for patients in transfer of care.

Skills

Clinical medicines management

Medication review

Long term conditions management

Safer prescribing systems

Public health service

Tools

SystmOne clinical system

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.

• 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. 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.