Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting enthusiastic pharmacists to join a dynamic team across main hospital sites including The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and base hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham. The role offers flexibility to work in acute and community settings with a focus on integrated, multidisciplinary care.

We welcome applicants for full-time or part-time hours.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration or eligible for registration
• Strong clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Excellent communication and teamwork

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialised clinical services within the assigned specialist area.
• Review patients’ notes and prescriptions to provide specialised advice to patients, carers and healthcare staff.
• Identify safety risks, optimise medicines therapy and contribute to cost-effective care.
• Participate in ward rounds, clinics and patient counselling; support prescribing where appropriate.

Job description

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our dynamic team, nationally recognised for its commitment to innovation and service development. This opportunity will allow successful candidates to work as a specialist clinical pharmacist within our pharmacy department across our main hospital sites, including The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, as well as our base hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham. The exact area of clinical speciality and predominant base site will be discussed at interview.

You’ll be part of a forward-looking service, delivering patient-centred care in both acute and community settings. As we break down traditional healthcare boundaries, our focus is on improving outcomes through integrated, multidisciplinary working.

Pharmacy is at the heart of the Trust’s enhanced care teams, supporting frail and high-risk patients in their own homes and care homes. We are also expanding our presence in GP practices, contributing to the care of patients with long-term conditions in close collaboration with primary care colleagues.

Join us and be part of shaping the future of pharmacy practice—where innovation, patient care, and professional development go hand in hand.

Full time or Part time hours may be considered.

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.

Provide highly specialised clinical services and advice within specialist area. At the time of advert exact details of speciality are being agreed by the senior pharmacy team but the details will be discussed at interview.

Provide a personal clinical and professional contribution to the clinical pharmacy service e.g. by participating on medical and other ward rounds, in clinics, counselling patients, prescribing. Clinical pharmacy describes how pharmacists use their expertise and experience to make sure that patients get the best out of their medicines. It involves proactive and direct patient care which reduces clinical and financial risk i.e. maximising clinical outcomes, minimising patient morbidity and risk of error and maximising cost effectiveness.

To review patients’ notes and prescriptions and to provide specialised advice to patients (& carers), medical staff and other healthcare professionals, in order to ensure safe and effective medicines management and the best patient care.

To consider clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make appropriate interventions to ensure safety and optimisation of patient therapy within assigned clinical area of responsibility.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Smith Job title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist Workforce Development Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01912932729

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