Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Redcar; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to develop and lead a clinical pharmacy service for virtual wards and urgent community responses. The role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to offer hospital-level care at home, emphasizing clinical leadership and independent prescribing skills. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and previous clinical experience. Opportunities for training and career progression are provided.

Benefits

Leadership and improvement training

Qualifications

• Qualified to a master's degree level (MPharm or equivalent).
• Registered as a practising pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in teaching or mentoring pre-registration pharmacists.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the clinical pharmacy service within the Urgent Community Response service.
• Implement service improvements and lead service development initiatives.
• Work alongside multi-disciplinary teams to deliver safe patient care.

Skills

Clinical independent prescribing

Leadership skills

Effective clinical skills

Education

Master's degree (MPharm)

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Post graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 08 October 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to utilise clinical independent prescribing and leadership skills as they develop and lead clinical an operational pharmacy service provided to patients on the virtual wards and the urgent community response service in Tees Community.

Hospital at Home service provides hospital level care for patients in their own home to avoid hospital admission and facilitate discharge. Urgent community response reviews patients within 2 hours of referral to avoid hospital admission.

Hospital at Home offers a hospital standard of community care in people's own homes for frailty patients - who are at highest risk of poor health outcomes such as falls, disability, admission to hospital, or the need for long-term care.

The service helps to reduce avoidable hospital admissions, while ensuring patients get the care they need from the comfort of their own homes.

Patients are monitored daily by a multidisciplinary team and are overseen by a GP or consultant. Visits from the team are arranged as and when required to meet individual needs.

This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist to be a crucial member of the MDT for one of the most rapidly expanding clinical services within the Tees Valley Community.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to appoint a confident and competent pharmacist who can demonstrate effective clinical skills and service development. You will be responsible for leading and developing the clinical pharmacy service within the Urgent Community Response service (UCR) encompassing the

Hospital at Home Virtual Ward to provide excellent at home and on site patient centered care.

The role will additionally involve leading and implementing service improvements and expansion. The successful candidate will be provided with all the relevant training and support, as well as provided with ample opportunities to allow personal growth, and career progression. You will work

as a crucial part of the multi-disciplinary team working alongside consultant, GP, nursing and pharmacy colleagues to deliver safe and effective patient care.

The pharmacy department at South Tees hosts over 180 staff, and provides a stimulating, friendly, and professionally rewarding environment for staff to develop their clinical expertise and professionalism.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Qualified to a master's degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council or Great Britain as a practising pharmacist
• Post graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent

Experience

• Teaching, tutoring, or mentoring of pre-registration pharmacists
• Worked as a clinical pharmacist at a high level
• Experience and involvement of service development
• Experience of a pharmacist led clinic
• Experience of quality and/or cost improvement projects
• Experience of leading service development

Knowledge & Experience

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master's degree in pharmacy
• Significant post-qualification experience in a relevant role, practicing as a pharmacist in hospital or primary care
• Experience of supervising staff and leading a team
• Experience of Community Services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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