Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7267319JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NPC Wellway / Lintonville / Northumbria Way Practices
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/07/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care
Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary and Acute Care (Morpeth / Ashington / Cramlington)
We have a great opportunity for pharmacists wishing to develop their careers 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 and hospital pharmacy. Job plans will be structured to ensure pharmacists work across both sectors to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.
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.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across the Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) practices of Wellway, Lintonville and Northumbria Way to help meet their population needs. This clinical role will involve supporting patients with long-term conditions, medication review and patient facing medicines support to ensure 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, as well as 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 pharmacy 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.
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages 12 GP practices with around 130,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside. NPC is a not for profit, at scale provider of primary care services in Northumberland and North Tyneside with an ambition to work at scale with like-minded practices, improving resilience and quality of services for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within primary and secondary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
- To provide leadership on matters pertaining to medicines optimisation within primary and secondary 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 teaching and to supervise less experienced pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
- To contribute to collection of clinical key performance indicators.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- Previous pre-registration training
- Relevant post-registration hospital experience
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- IT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber, or commitment to achieving this on appointment
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society or organizations to assist personal and professional development
- Achieved or working towards a postgraduate clinical qualification
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
- Experience of supervising staff
- Must have highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Published pharmaceutical research
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 Barrett
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Integrated Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 293 2729
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