Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Excellent clinical and medication knowledge.
- Experience
Understanding and experience of working as a pharmacist in a GP practice setting, with a confident approach.
- Experience
Experience of undertaking medication reviews.
- Experience
The commitment to continue to learn and develop.
- Experience
The ability to be adaptable and flexible and be a proactive problem solver.
- Experience
Excellent inter-personal patient facing communication skills.
- Experience
Will hold personal professional indemnity insurance.
- Qualifications
Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Qualifications
Ideally will have independent prescriber status.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
Hillton Primary Care Network in Bedford are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist, to work across the practices within the PCN on a 12 month maternity contract. This role is offered on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week and will commence in January 2027. 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 to provide expertise.
Main duties of the job
- 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: 19 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 12 months
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 30106
- Job locations: 1 Houghton Close, Ampthill, Bedford, Beds, MK45 2TG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist with Primary Care Careers in Bedford, England. It is listed as a Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is Depends on experience. The contract type is Fixed-Term. The application deadline is 06 Nov 2026.
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