Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Innovation, Research and Development
| Posting date: | 28 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7686100/319-7686100JA |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust is looking for an organised and motivated individual to provide clinical and operational leadership within the Pharmacy Department's expanding research portfolio. A successful candidate will, with the support of the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Research and Development, manage the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team and oversee all clinical trial activity within the department.
There will be an expectation that a successful candidate will maintain a regular clinical commitment. The speciality where this clinical practise will be based will be agreed on appointment, taking into account the needs of the service and the successful candidate's preference.
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.
Lead clinical research delivery involving medicines across the Trust.
Provide medicines and pharmacy advice to the wider research team.
Work with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to ensure Good Clinical Practice and regulations governing the delivery of safe clinical research are adhered to across the Trust.
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.
· Responsible for managing the process of pharmacy’s input to clinical trials Trustwide, ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice for Clinical Trials within Pharmacy
· Responsible for ensuring good governance arrangements between Pharmacy and Trust’s R&D department, and providing specialist advice to the Trust’s R&D department in ensuring Good Clinical Practice for the running of clinical trials.
· Within assigned clinical specialty, to lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
· To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility and by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
· To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility
To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines Management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
· To manage, support and/or teach when appropriate, less experienced staff e.g. junior pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team (e.g. resident doctors).
· To participate in medical and other ward rounds as well as multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
· To contribute to the running of Pharmacy by assuming responsibility for functional area(s) of the service e.g. designated supervisor/manager, out of hours service, roster management, medicines information, collation/reporting against clinical key performance indicators.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Jan 2026
The Trust is looking for an organised and motivated individual to provide clinical and operational leadership within the Pharmacy Department's expanding research portfolio. A successful candidate will, with the support of the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Research and Development, manage the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team and oversee all clinical trial activity within the department.
There will be an expectation that a successful candidate will maintain a regular clinical commitment. The speciality where this clinical practise will be based will be agreed on appointment, taking into account the needs of the service and the successful candidate's preference.
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.
Lead clinical research delivery involving medicines across the Trust.
Provide medicines and pharmacy advice to the wider research team.
Work with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to ensure Good Clinical Practice and regulations governing the delivery of safe clinical research are adhered to across the Trust.
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.
· Responsible for managing the process of pharmacy’s input to clinical trials Trustwide, ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice for Clinical Trials within Pharmacy
· Responsible for ensuring good governance arrangements between Pharmacy and Trust’s R&D department, and providing specialist advice to the Trust’s R&D department in ensuring Good Clinical Practice for the running of clinical trials.
· Within assigned clinical specialty, to lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
· To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility and by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
· To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility
To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines Management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
· To manage, support and/or teach when appropriate, less experienced staff e.g. junior pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and other members of the healthcare team (e.g. resident doctors).
· To participate in medical and other ward rounds as well as multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
· To contribute to the running of Pharmacy by assuming responsibility for functional area(s) of the service e.g. designated supervisor/manager, out of hours service, roster management, medicines information, collation/reporting against clinical key performance indicators.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Jan 2026