Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Trauma & Orthopaedics

Integrated Care System; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in England seeks a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join their dedicated team at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. The ideal candidate will manage pharmaceutical care for trauma and orthopaedic patients, ensuring effective pain management and medicines optimisation. Applicants must hold a master's degree in pharmacy and relevant clinical experience. This role offers a challenging but rewarding opportunity to improve patient outcomes and support clinical teams.

Qualifications

• 1 year of pre-registration training.
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Assist in shaping the service and clinical contributions.
• Support the Acute Pain Team in patient management.
• Provide clinical support to surgical wards.
• Attend daily board rounds and MDT meetings.

Skills

Leadership in clinical support

Communication skills

Prescription management

Team collaboration

Education

Vocational master's degree in pharmacy

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Tools

Electronic prescribing system

IT skills (ECDL standard)

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Trauma & Orthopaedics

The closing date is 25 August 2025

We are seeking a highly motivated, forward thinking clinical pharmacist with a passion for developing new ideas to join our well established team at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. The successful candidate will lead on delivering a patient focused service to trauma and orthopaedic patients with emphasis on supporting pre- and postoperative medicines optimisation, falls medication review and pain management. Key to this will be developing the role of the pharmacist prescriber, looking at innovative ways to integrate and work alongside our COTE teams to support our orthopaedic trauma patients.

Additionally, the postholder will support the Acute Pain Team, working alongside specialist pain nurses to provide advice and support in the management of post-operative patients.

This post is based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital although there is an expectation that the postholder would work closely with colleagues at all sites to support both elective and emergency care across surgical specialities.

Main duties of the job

You will be a motivated individual who will assist in shaping the service and the clinical contribution we provide. You will hold an independent prescribing qualification and ideally have experience of either working within surgery or care of the elderly/ falls management. Within your area of responsibility you will:

• Provide leadership to both elective surgery and orthopaedic trauma including attendance on the daily board rounds and input into the MDT
• Provide prescribing and clinical support to the orthopaedic and surgical wards
• Support the acute pain team in providing post-operative pain management
• Provide prescribing support and clinical advice to the technician-led pharmacy pre-assessment service
• Support orthopaedics with advice and support in areas such as clinical guidelines, patient safety and governance, as well as supporting quality improvement initiatives.

You will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. You will work closely with clinicians and nursing colleagues to support and promote the safe and effective use of medicines as well as ensuring the cost-effective use of resources. This will include attendance at relevant directorate forums.

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

• 1st degree - Vocational master's 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
• Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
• IT skills to at least European Computer Driving Licence standard or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
• Experience of supervising staff
• Demonstrable experience within clinical informatics, including using the trusts electronic prescribing system
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
• Experience of managing staff
• Experience of working within either Surgery and/or COTE

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registration/Experience

• 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
• 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 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

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital