Clinical Pharmacist

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.

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.