Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 August 2025 |
| Location: | Ashington, NE63 0NG |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7267148/319-7267148JA |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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."
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.
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.
• 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.
This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 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."
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.
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.
• 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.
This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025