Company Name
The De Parys Group
All Locations
Bedford
Advertising Salary
Dependent on skills and experience
Function
Pharmacy - Registered
Careers Site Advertising End Date
23 Oct 2026
Vacancy ID
30056

About the Role

The De Parys Group is seeking an experienced and dynamic clinical pharmacy leader to provide overall operational and clinical leadership of the pharmacy service at The De Parys Group. This position is offered on a full-time basis.

The postholder will lead a safe, resilient and increasingly clinically focused service, develop the pharmacy workforce, and work with the GP Pharmacy Partners and wider organisational leadership to deliver the future model of medicines optimisation and pharmacy care.

You will be based across our 5 sites in Bedford (4 clinical and 1 non- clinical) in accordance with business needs. 

The main responsibilities of the role include:

  • Provide overall operational and clinical leadership, direction and accountability for the Pharmacy service.
  • Lead service performance using data, KPIs and service intelligence to improve productivity, medicines safety, quality and workforce performance.
  • Lead workforce planning, capacity, deployment and resilience, working closely with the rota and HR teams.
  • Develop and embed the Pharmacy operating model, including the Acute/Duty Medicines, Repeat Prescribing/Re-authorisation, and Care Homes/Frailty/SMR workstreams.
  • Ensure responsibility is appropriately distributed across senior pharmacists, with clear specialist areas, supervision, development and escalation arrangements.
  • Lead medicines optimisation, medication review and repeat re-authorisation pathways, ensuring work is undertaken by the right professional at the right level of competence.
  • Act as a senior clinical role model, mentor and source of professional leadership while maintaining advanced clinical credibility.
  • Support the GP Pharmacy Partners with long-term strategic development, service transformation and financial sustainability.
  Please see the Job Description for a detailed picture of the role. 

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

  • Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent; current GPhC registration; Independent Prescriber or demonstrable commitment/route to IP where appropriate.
  • Substantial senior pharmacy leadership experience, preferably in primary care/general practice; experience of operational leadership, workforce management, service performance and complex change.
  • Advanced clinical knowledge in primary care; medicines optimisation; medication review and repeat re-authorisation; high-risk medicines and monitoring; multidisciplinary working.
  •  Experience of medicines governance, policies, incidents, audit/QI, patient safety and use of performance data.
  • Experience of line management, clinical supervision, appraisal, performance management, coaching/mentoring and workforce development.
  • Highly developed leadership, communication, influencing and organisational skills; able to prioritise, delegate, challenge constructively, manage competing demands and hold teams accountable.
  •  Able to use digital systems and data to redesign pathways, improve productivity and reduce avoidable work.

About Us

The De Parys Group’s priority is to provide the highest standard of clinical care to the 38,000 patients registered with the practice. We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home. We embrace a continuous improvement ethos and strive to ensure that we are available to patients when they need a consultation. We have a strong training ethos within the practice with a team of medical and non-medical educators as well as opportunities for non-clinical staff to develop and progress.

TDPG is fortunate to have its own dispensaries at our De Parys and Bromham sites. In addition to our routine GMS services, we offer a comprehensive range of services including minor surgery, LARC provision and anticoagulation clinics.

We have high QOF achievement and excellent KPIs within the group.

Benefits include:

  • NHS pension scheme.
  • Proper pay and Living Wage Foundation accredited.
  • Eye-care vouchers.
  • 30 days annual leave FTE, with enhancements for long service.
  • Paid breaks 

 

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.

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