Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Innovation, Research and Development

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to provide leadership within the expanding pharmacy research portfolio. The role involves managing the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team, ensuring compliance with clinical regulations, and advising on medicines management across diverse specialties. Candidates should have significant hospital experience and relevant qualifications, including a vocational master's degree in pharmacy. The position offers a competitive salary between £55,690 and £62,682 annually.

Qualifications

• Valid driving licence and ability to use a car for work purposes.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• IT skills to at least ECDL standard.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical research delivery involving medicines across the Trust.
• Ensure compliance with Good Clinical Practice.
• Manage pharmacy input to clinical trials across the Trust.

Skills

Significant hospital experience

Supervising staff

Experience in NHS Organizations

Education

Vocational masters degree in pharmacy

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Innovation, Research and Development

The closing date is 27 January 2026

The Trust is looking for an organised and motivated individual to provide clinical and operational leadership within the Pharmacy Department's expanding research portfolio. A successful candidate will, with the support of the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Research and Development, manage the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team and oversee all clinical trial activity within the department.

There will be an expectation that a successful candidate will maintain a regular clinical commitment. The speciality where this clinical practise will be based will be agreed on appointment, taking into account the needs of the service and the successful candidate's preference.

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

• Lead clinical research delivery involving medicines across the Trust.
• Provide medicines and pharmacy advice to the wider research team.
• Work with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to ensure Good Clinical Practice and regulations governing the delivery of safe clinical research are adhered to across the Trust.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the process of pharmacy input to clinical trials Trustwide, ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice for Clinical Trials within Pharmacy.
• Responsible for ensuring good governance arrangements between Pharmacy and Trusts R&D department, and providing specialist advice to the Trusts R&D department in ensuring Good Clinical Practice for the running of clinical trials.
• Within assigned clinical specialty, to lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
• To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility and by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
• To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility.
• To assist in the provision of expert 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 manage, support and/or teach when appropriate, less experienced staff e.g. junior pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team (e.g. resident doctors).
• To participate in medical and other ward rounds as well as multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
• To contribute to the running of Pharmacy by assuming responsibility for functional area(s) of the service e.g. designated supervisor/manager, out of hours service, roster management, medicines information, collation/reporting against clinical key performance indicators.

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant and relevant post registration hospital experience
• Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
• Experience of supervising staff

Other

• 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

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• 1st degree - Vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years)
• One year's pre-registration training
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Postgraduate clinical qualification (over and above that of the 1st degree, preferably at Masters level) and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate a similar level of knowledge
• Independent prescribing qualification or commitment to achieving this on appointment
• Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
• IT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata per annum