Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Cddft; Tees Valley; Remote; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join the pharmacy team on a rotational basis, across Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. The role supports medicines optimisation, governance, education and service development with mentoring and prescribing development opportunities.

Applicants may continue a postgraduate Clinical Diploma with financial support; independent prescriber training may be provided during

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Postgraduate clinical qualification or working towards diploma level.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Pharmacist prescriber or training to commence within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Deputise for the Pharmacist Advanced and supervise a team to deliver clinical pharmacy services.
• Provide medicines management, medicines optimisation and reconciliation on designated wards/clinics.
• Develop and implement local policies and prescribing guidelines.
• Influence practice to ensure safe medication use and risk minimisation.
• Be a point of contact for nursing and clinical staff on medicine management.
• Provide medicines information and assess new drug reviews.
• Support clinical pharmacy services within MDT structures (outpatients/pre-assessment).
• Deliver high quality patient education on medicines use.
• Contribute to clinical effectiveness: audits and service evaluation.
• Assist planning and implementation of service changes and new treatments.
• Act as a professional checker in dispensary/chemo services.
• Participate in weekend, on-call, late-night and bank holiday rotas.

Skills

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Education & training

Clinical reasoning

Communication skills

Education

Masters Degree in Pharmacy

Postgraduate clinical qualification

Portfolio evidence of CPD

GPhC pharmacist prescriber training

Portfolio of professional activity

Job description

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 29 October 2026

We have an exciting opportunityfor a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team. We prideourselves in working at the leading edge of clinical pharmacy practice andmedicines optimisation, with our teams winning national recognition forinnovative, high-quality patient care. This rotational post based at eitherDarlington Memorial Hospital or the University Hospital of North Durham howeverthe successful applicant may be required to work across any of the Trusthospital sites.

As part of one ofEnglands largest integrated care providers, you will work alongsidemultidisciplinary colleagues to deliver safe, compassionate and joined up care,supporting our mission of getting it right first time, every time.

Main duties of the job

We pride ourselves on thequality of the pharmaceutical care we provide for patients. The successfulcandidate will be expected to deliver a high standard of near-patientspecialist pharmaceutical care to our patients. In addition, they will supportthe pharmacy team to deliver governance, education, training and serviceimprovement to their rotational area. They will help shape the strategicdirection of pharmacy by supporting the development of innovative new services.To achieve this we will support the successful candidate with mentoring anddevelopment opportunities including independent prescribing, RPS portfoliodevelopment and other further education opportunities. Applicants need to beable to work autonomously, be a team player whilst motivating others. We welcomeapplications from forward thinking, motivated pharmacists who share the valuesof County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

Applicants currentlyundertaking a postgraduate Clinical Diploma may be eligible for financialsupport to continue this with us.

Pharmacists that donot have an independent prescriber qualification will be supported to undertakeand complete the course as part of their professional development

About us

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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For the most up-to-date information on visa requirements and eligibility, please check online to determine whether you can apply.

Please note that we may close any vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Job responsibilities

Deputising for the Pharmacist Advanced fortheir area and in so doing will be required to supervise a team of clinicalpharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support workers, ensuring thedelivery of safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy and medicinesmanagement services to an agreed standard and to a designated group of patientand service users

Providing medicines management, medicinesoptimisation and medicines reconciliation services to help achieve departmentpriorities and targets on a designated ward or group of wards, day case unitsor clinics as decided by the Lead Pharmacist

Helping to develop and implement local policiesand guidelines on good prescribing practice.

Influencing local practice to ensure safemedication use, and to ensure that their own practice and the practice ofothers effectively acknowledges good prescribing practice, patient safety andrisk minimisation.

Being a point of contact for nursing andclinical staff regarding medicine management issues.

Providing medicines information to healthcareprofessionals and new drug reviews as appropriate utilising the range ofinformation resources available, including the library and the internet, and tomake an informed decision on the appropriate response required.

Being involved in providing clinical pharmacyservice to designated multidisciplinary team structures e.g. out patientclinics, pre assessment.

Providinghigh quality patienteducation on medicinesuse in bothin-patient and outpatientsettings.

Engaging in activities relating to clinicaleffectiveness including: drug use review, clinical audit and clinicalself-audit and to contribute to ongoing measures of service evaluation.

Supporting the planning and implementation ofservice changes and new treatments, as agreed within the pharmacy service.

Acting as a professional checker in thedispensary and/or chemotherapy service

Participating in theweekend, late night, on call and bank holiday rotas to meet the needs of theservice.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified pharmacist in a clinical setting.
• Experience of day-to-day registered pharmacy staff supervision
• Experience of delivering education and training sessions.
• Hospital pharmacy trainee or qualified pharmacist experience.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to trainee pharmacists

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Post graduate clinical qualification or working towards (to at least diploma level) or portfolio evidence of attainment to the same standard.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Pharmacist prescriber or able to undertake the training within 12 months of commencing employment.
• Evidence of an up to date portfolio of personal professional activity

Special Skills & Knowledge

• Good understanding of medicines reconciliation and how it fits into the larger function of clinical pharmacy practice.
• Able to apply evidence-based clinical knowledge to make suitable recommendations or take appropriate actions.
• Aware of where to seek appropriate information to solve problems and make decisions.
• Able to assimilate and communicate complex medicines information to patients and healthcare professionals across the multidisciplinary team using appropriate language and different mediums.
• Aware of and able to inform others about, the clinical, legal and governance aspects of medicines.
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all areas of pharmacy practice.
• An understanding of current pharmacy and NHS issues.
• Awareness and understanding of the pharmacy teams role in governance processes

Statutory Registration

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Membership of a pharmacy professional body e.g. RPS, UKCPA, BOPA, NPPG.

Special Requirements

• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Able to build strong relationships across the multidisciplinary team; working in partnership to promote positive outcomes.
• Motivated to develop personally and professionally through self-audit, reflection and learning.
• Able to prioritise own workload in a busy and changing environment.
• Able to travel independently across Trust sites to meet the requirements of the post.

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.

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearper annum, pro rata