Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - Part time may also be considered)
- Job ref
- 319-6481401JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellway, Lintonville and Northumbria Way practices
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2024
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care
Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care (Morpeth / Ashington / Cramlington)
We have a great opportunity for pharmacists wishing to develop their careers 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. With full access to acute trust teams and resources, this will help to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across the Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) practices of Wellway, Lintonville and Northumbria Way to help meet their population needs. This clinical role will involve supporting patients with long-term conditions, medication review and patient facing medicines support to ensure that care is personalised to ‘what matters’ to patients.
Working for our organisation
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, as well as 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 pharmacy 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.
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages 12 GP practices with around 130,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside with significant growth within the organisation happening in the next 6 months. NPC is a not for profit, at scale provider of primary care services in Northumberland and North Tyneside with an ambition to work at scale with like-minded practices, improving resilience and quality of services for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within primary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential 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 teaching and to supervise less experienced pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
To contribute to collection of clinical key performance indicators.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First degree - Vocational master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent qualification and/or experience
- Previous pre-registration training
- Relevant post-registration hospital experience
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- IT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber, or commitment to achieving this on appointment
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
- Achieved or working towards a postgraduate clinical qualification
other
Essential criteria
- Essential requirement UK Driving Licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steven Barrett
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Integrated Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 293 2729
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