Senior Pharmacist (Hospital at Home)

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Northallerton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for a Senior Pharmacist for their Hospital at Home service in Northallerton. This role involves leading clinical pharmacy services and conducting patient visits to ensure optimal medication management. Candidates must be qualified pharmacists with experience in clinical settings and should be able to work independently and in teams. The position offers competitive pay ranging from £55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata, along with leadership training opportunities.

Benefits

Leadership training

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Qualified to a degree level (MPharm or equivalent).
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council as a practising pharmacist.
• Significant post-qualification experience in a relevant role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee clinical pharmacy input to the Urgent Community Response and virtual ward team.
• Work as an independent prescriber optimising medicines.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge to health professionals.

Skills

Clinical skills

Supervisory experience

Medication management

Community services experience

Autonomy

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Post graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Pharmacist (Hospital at Home)

The closing date is 23 October 2025

Would you like to play a part in the Hospital at home service in the beautiful location of Hambleton and Richmondshire.

We have a rare opportunity for a 9-month maternity leave cover to lead and oversee clinical pharmacy input to the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and virtual ward team to deliver care to the virtual ward, community beds and Urgent Care Response teams.

You will contribute to patient care both within the unit base setting, and via patient home visits where appropriate.

Lead on medication provision and delivery across organisational boundaries.

Complete Medication reviews, medicines reconciliation and pharmaceutical care plans for patients admitted to the virtual ward.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

You will work as an independent prescriber, optimising medicines and promoting appropriate, evidence-based, and cost-effective prescribing and deprescribing as part of the wider hospital at home team.

You will be using your clinical skills and knowledge in investigations, analysing, and implementing actions for medication related incidents within the virtual ward.

The provision of specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge to a range of health and social care professionals on the safe prescribing, handling, and administration of medicines.

About us

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviour
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skill
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & training

• Qualified to a degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council or Great Britain as a practising pharmacist.
• Post graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent.
• RPS Faculty membership.

Knowledge and skills

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational degree in pharmacy
• Signficant pre-registration training and experience
• Significant post-qualification experience in a relevant role, practising as a pharmacist in hospital or primary care
• Good all-round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
• Experience of supervising staff and leading a team
• Able to work autonomously and within a team
• Experienceof community services.

Experience

• Worked as a clinical pharmacist at a high level
• Creating, developing, and reviewing protocol and/or guidelines
• Supervising and undertaking audit andreportingresults appropriately
• Experience and involvement of service development, teaching, tutoring, or mentoring of pre-registration pharmacists.
• Ability to travel independently throughout the area.
• Experience prescribing in a specialist area

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.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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