Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care

Integrated Care System; Ashington; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to support medicines optimisation in primary care. The ideal candidate will have significant clinical pharmacy experience and leadership skills. Responsibilities include developing pharmacy services, advising on medicines management, and managing staff. Competitive salary range is £55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent prescribing qualification or commitment required.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop a clinical pharmacy service in primary care.
• Provide leadership on medicines optimisation.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy skills

Leadership skills

Medicines optimisation

Education

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

IT skills (ECDL or equivalent)

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care

The closing date is 18 August 2025

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care (Wansbeck Primary Care Network)

Closing Date: 18/8/2025 Interview date: 03/09/2025 (tbc)

We have a great opportunity for a pharmacist wishing to develop their career as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. With the highest proportion of pharmacist prescribers in the country, our clinicians use their skills to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home, or care home).

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacists to develop or maintain their skills within primary care.

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

"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across cross Wansbeck Primary Care Network (Seaton Park Medical Group, Gables Medical Group, Guidepost Medical Group and Bedlingtonshire Medical Group) to help meet their population needs. This clinical patient-facing role will involve delivering the national agenda for primary care, including structured medication reviews for older people living with frailty, enhancing medicines support for care homes and their residents, ensuring that care is personalised to 'what matters' to patients.

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. In addition to acute hospital pharmacy services we provide pharmacists and technicians to four of our local primary care networks with a combined population of 190,000. We also deliver locally commissioned integrated pharmacy services to care homes, frailty, living well with pain and palliative care. We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.

Job responsibilities

• To develop and deliver a clinical pharmacy service for patients in primary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in care homes.
• To provide leadership on matters pertaining to medicines optimisation within primary care, to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
• To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines optimisation encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, supply, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
• To manage the care of specific patients, as part of the team.
• To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility.
• To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility
• To manage, support and/or teach when appropriate, less experienced staff e.g., junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists (inc. acting as a pre-registration manager/tutor if required), pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team (e.g., junior doctors, nursing staff).
• To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
• To contribute to collation/reporting against clinical key performance indicators.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the team. 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

• Previous 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 following 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

Experience

• Significant and relevant post-registration experience
• Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of working with primary care colleagues
• Experience of managing staff

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 yearpro rata per annum