Outpatient Pharmacist

QE Facilities; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 59,000; Part time

Job summary

QE Facilities Out-Patient Pharmacy in Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacist part-time to cover 36 hours per week. You will serve as RP, promote safe medicine handling, and support homecare and WDA operations at Spire House, Washington, while building relationships with the Trust and stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will have GPhC registration and a strong clinical focus, contributing to KPI targets and a patient-centered service in a busy outpatient setting.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills required to explain clearly and listen to patients and healthcare professionals.
• GPhC registered Pharmacist in good standing.
• MPharm(Hons) or equivalent qualification to practice as a Pharmacist.

Responsibilities

• Undertake the role of Responsible Pharmacist (RP) and ensure compliance with RP responsibilities.
• Promote safe storage and access to medicines within the Pharmacy.
• Support the Superintendent Pharmacist to maintain standards for a GPhC registered Pharmacy and a Wholesale Distribution Authority (WDA) site.

Skills

Communication skills

Education

GPhC registered Pharmacist

MPharm(Hons) or equivalent

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade QEF Grade D Spinal point 800 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 297-QEF-8233142

Employer QE Facilities Employer type NHS Site Queen Elizabeth Hospital Town Gateshead Salary £51,601 pro rata Closing 02/09/2026 23:59

QEF Grade D Spinal point 800

Job overview

This unique role offers the chance to be part of a growing team within the QE Facilities Out-Patient Pharmacy based in the Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, enabling you to develop your clinical knowledge in an acute clinical setting, whilst providing a positive customer focused service to our patients. This role is perfect for an ambitious Pharmacist who has the ability to build strong relationships with the Trust and our external key stakeholders. It is ideal for a pharmacist looking to practice and develop their clinical knowledge in the innovative environment of an Outpatient Dispensary (OPD) Pharmacy service.

This role will support the ongoing business development of our Pharmacy to Home (Homecare) service and Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (WDA) operation, located at Spire House, Washington.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake the role of Responsible Pharmacist (RP), ensuring full compliance with the responsibilities of the RP role.
• Promote the appropriate access and safe storage of all medicines in the Pharmacy.
• Support the Superintendent Pharmacist to maintain the legal and regulatory standards of a GPhC registered Pharmacy and a Wholesale Distribution Authority (WDA) registered site.
• Support the Superintendent Pharmacist to promote a strong relationship with the Trust and other key stakeholders e.g. CCG and local Trusts.
• Support essential business development for additional Pharmacy Services and contracts e.g. expansion of the Pharmacy to Home (Homecare) delivery of medicines.
• To support the Pharmacy Manager and Dispensary team to deliver a high quality, patient focused service.
• To work towards the delivery of the QEF Pharmacy Key Performance Indicators (KPI) targets and develop and promote stretch targets.
• Promote the clinical screening of all prescriptions to ensure appropriateness of therapeutic indication, dose, frequency, form and route of administration.
• Supervise and facilitate the dispensing of Out-Patient prescriptions including speciality medicines such as Oral Chemotherapy, IVF and Hepatitis C.

Work with your line manager to identify individual training needs and establish a Personal Development Plan.

Working for our organisation

QE Facilities (QEF) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNT), based in the North East of England.

We provide a range of non- clinical services to GHNT and other NHS organisations. Our services include: estates, facilities services, procurement, medical engineering and devices, endoscopy decontamination and sterile services, transport, out-patient pharmacy, and prevention & management of violence & aggression training (PMVA).

In addition we provide consultancy services, advising clients on all aspects of establishing a subsidiary company within an NHS body to the provision of VAT compliance advice.

QE Facilities work to their own Terms and Conditions and these are not the same as Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Terms and Conditions. This is not an Agenda for Change Pay Rate.

We do not hold a sponsorship licence and are unable to offer employment under any sponsorship arrangement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ability to work as a Responsible Pharmacist and promote the legal and regulatory standards of a GPhC registered Pharmacy.
• Understand the individual role and responsibilities of all staff engaged in the registered Pharmacy and understand when to report issues to the Superintendent Pharmacist.
• Understand the principle of ‘safer care’ and promote a ‘just culture’ environment for error reporting and learning from previous dispensing errors.

Provide appropriate supervision of the PharmacyDispensing Assistant and Pharmacy Counter Assistant roles and support individual Personal Development Plans.

Person specification

Qualifications

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• MPharm(Hons) or equivalent

Experience

• Responsible Pharmacist experience in Hospital Pharmacy or Community Pharmacy

Knowledge and Skills

• 1. Knowledge of the Laws, Guidelines and Standards relating to the supply of medicines from a GPhC registered Pharmacy
• 2. Excellent communication skills. Ability to explain clearly and listen to members of the public and other healthcare professionals

Applicants who have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date are to assume that their application has been unsuccessful.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is a smoke free organisation in line with Smoke Free Gateshead

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.