• Job Description

  Req#: M0038-26-0206?language=en&page=1135&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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.

  Main duties of the job

  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 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.

  Details

  Date posted

  25 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  29245-2

  Job locations

  1 Houghton Close

  Ampthill

  Bedford

  Beds

  MK45 2TG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  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.

  Qualifications

  Essential

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

  Person Specification

  Experience

  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.

  Qualifications

  Essential

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

  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).

  Additional information

  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

  Employer name

  Primary Care Careers

  Address

  1 Houghton Close

  Ampthill

  Bedford

  Beds

  MK45 2TG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Primary Care Careers

  Address

  1 Houghton Close

  Ampthill

  Bedford

  Beds

  MK45 2TG

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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