Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7267148JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck Primary Care Network
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care
Band 8a
Job overview
Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care (Wansbeck Primary Care Network)
Closing Date: 18/8/2025 Interview date: 03/09/2025 (tbc)
We have a great opportunity for a pharmacist wishing to develop their career as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. With the highest proportion of pharmacist prescribers in the country, our clinicians use their skills to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home, or care home).
Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacists to develop or maintain their skills within primary care.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across cross Wansbeck Primary Care Network (Seaton Park Medical Group, Gables Medical Group, Guidepost Medical Group and Bedlingtonshire Medical Group) to help meet their population needs. This clinical patient-facing role will involve delivering the national agenda for primary care, including structured medication reviews for older people living with frailty, enhancing medicines support for care homes and their residents, ensuring that care is personalised to ‘what matters’ to patients.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. In addition to acute hospital pharmacy services we provide pharmacists and technicians to four of our local primary care networks with a combined population of 190,000. We also deliver locally commissioned integrated pharmacy services to care homes, frailty, living well with pain and palliative care. We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To develop and deliver a clinical pharmacy service for patients in primary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in care homes.
- To provide leadership on matters pertaining to medicines optimisation within primary care, to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
- To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines optimisation encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, supply, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
- To manage the care of specific patients, as part of the team.
- To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility.
- To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility
- To manage, support and/or teach when appropriate, less experienced staff e.g., junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists (inc. acting as a pre-registration manager/tutor if required), pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team (e.g., junior doctors, nursing staff).
- To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
- To contribute to collation/reporting against clinical key performance indicators.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the team. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st degree - Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Previous pre-registration training
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate clinical qualification (over and above that of the 1st degree, preferably at Masters level) and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate a similar level of knowledge
- Independent prescribing qualification or commitment to achieving following appointment
- Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
- IT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant and relevant post-registration experience
- Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
- Experience of supervising staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with primary care colleagues
- Experience of managing staff
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steven Narrie
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912932729
- Additional information
Additional contact for queries:
Amy Buck (Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Wansbeck PCN) - [email protected]
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