Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

The Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced Pharmacist to lead a dual role in education and advanced clinical practice within Community Treatment Teams. Your work will improve medicines optimisation, patient safety and patient-centred care through a clinical practitioner pathway.

You will oversee education across undergraduate and post-registration programmes, manage placements, deliver shared learning sessions, and support pharmacists, trainees and

Qualifications

• Oversee education across undergraduate, foundation and post-registration programmes.
• Manage rotational and multisector placements, ensuring quality and continuity.
• Lead on annual NHSE foundation year training plan submissions and learning sessions.
• Coordinate undergraduate MPharm placements with local universities.
• Identify workforce implications of service changes and embed training across the department.
• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy practice with expert medication advice and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Support Lead Pharmacist for Research and Workforce Development in education and training across programmes.
• Oversee rotational placements and multisector experiences to ensure continuity.
• Deliver in-house and regional learning sessions for pharmacists, trainees and technicians.
• Coordinate MPharm placements with university schools including pre-placement sessions.
• Develop and embed pharmacy education initiatives and respond to workforce needs.
• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy services within a Community Treatment Team with collaborative decision-making.

Skills

Education and training

Clinical pharmacy

Workforce development

Placement coordination

Clinical leadership

Education

MPharm

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Pharmacist to take on a dual role combining education and training with advanced clinical practice in our Community Treatment Teams (CTTs) to improve medicines optimisation, enhance patient safety and provide a patient-centred care via a clinical practitioner role within a community treatment team.

You Will

• Support the Lead Pharmacist for Research and Workforce Development in overseeing education and training across undergraduate, foundation, and post-registration programmes.
• Manage rotational and multisector placements, ensuring quality and continuity.
• Lead on the annual NHSE foundation year training plan submissions, deliver in-house and regional shared learning sessions, and support professional development for pharmacists, trainees, and pharmacy technicians.
• Be responsible for the undergraduate MPharm placements in close partnership with our local university pharmacy schools - coordinating resources, supporting students and mentors, delivering pre-placement sessions, and acting on feedback to continually innovate placement delivery along with support for placement timetabling, and assisting with work experience recruitment alongside the specialist technician.
• Drive the development of pharmacy education and training, identifying workforce implications of service changes and embedding effective support across the department and keeping staff informed of training developments.
• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy practice to a Community Treatment Team, delivering specialist medication advice, reviews, and optimisation, independent prescribing (where applicable), and direct patient care through collaborative, shared decision-making with the team and external partners.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain’s most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.

The Trust may also offer financial support for successful candidates who need to relocate.

As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.

To find out more about our department and see what our team has to say you can watch our YouTube video https://youtu.be/JgVFF1jMsuY or view our departments brochure Pharmacy_Brochure_2026_updated.pdf

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martina Khundakar Job title: Lead Pharmacist - Research Workforce Development Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01912456606