Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Urgent and Emergency Care
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Location: | Gateshead, NE96SX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9297-25-0524 |
Summary
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input and maintain high standards of medicines management across the urgent and emergency care departments. To work closely as part of the MDT within the Emergency Care Centre, including accident and emergency, same day emergency care (SDEC), urgent treatment centre (UTC) and admission wards. A focus on supporting the patients journey. This will include ensuring timely medication history and reconciliation, rationalising and prescribing medication, providing patient medication counselling and facilitating safe discharge to ensure patient flow. Supporting the prescribing and administration of time critical medication within the emergency department. Collaborate with the acute and emergency care pharmacist in relation to service provision and service development within the Emergency Care Centre. Support with development and updates of clinical guidelines, policies and SOPs. As part of the team you will work closely alongside other pharmacy colleagues, providing leadership, clinical supervision and line management. Contribute to innovation in the urgent and emergency care department to look for opportunities for admission avoidance, medicines optimisation and improving transfer of care between hospital and community and front of house to back of house areas. Work to deliver the 7 day clinical pharmacy service by supporting the late night, on call and weekend rota. Provide support to the lead clinical pharmacist for medicine with regards to medicines management, incident resolving, staff training and integration with the urgent care senior team. Engagement with key stakeholders e.g ward managers, matrons, chief matron, service line managers and clinical and safecare leads.