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 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 the Candidate You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications: Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Ideally will have independent prescriber status. 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. 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. Disclosure and Barring Service Check Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.