Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7385079JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
NHS AfC: 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
We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our dynamic team, nationally recognised for its commitment to innovation and service development. These rotational posts offer you the opportunity to play a vital role in our clinical teams across our main hospital sites, including The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, as well as our base hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham.
You’ll be part of a forward-looking service, delivering patient-centred care in both acute and community settings. As we break down traditional healthcare boundaries, our focus is on improving outcomes through integrated, multidisciplinary working.
Pharmacy is at the heart of the Trust’s enhanced care teams, supporting frail and high-risk patients in their own homes and care homes. We are also expanding our presence in GP practices, contributing to the care of patients with long-term conditions in close collaboration with primary care colleagues.
Join us and be part of shaping the future of pharmacy practice—where innovation, patient care, and professional development go hand in hand.
Full time or Part time hours may be considered.
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
Provide highly specialised clinical services and advice within specialist area. At the time of advert, areas of special interest include Renal Medicine & AKI but other areas may be available and discussed at interview.
Provide a personal clinical and professional contribution to the clinical pharmacy service e.g. by participating on medical and other ward rounds, in clinics, counselling patients, prescribing. Clinical pharmacy describes how pharmacists use their expertise and experience to make sure that patients get the best out of their medicines. It involves proactive and direct patient care which reduces clinical and financial risk i.e. maximising clinical outcomes, minimising patient morbidity and risk of error and maximising cost effectiveness.
To review patients’ notes and prescriptions and to provide specialised advice to patients (& carers), medical staff and other healthcare professionals, in order to ensure safe and effective medicines management and the best patient care.
To consider clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make appropriate interventions to ensure safety and optimisation of patient therapy within assigned clinical area of responsibility.
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. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services. To lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk management, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines. To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation.
To assist in the provision of advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
To provide excellent patient care, in acute care settings, through direct patient facing activities.
To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
Day to day management of trainee pharmacists and band 6 foundation pharmacists
To contribute to the day to day operational running of the pharmacy department e.g. by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. 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
- 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
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.
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
- Scott Barrett
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912932729
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