Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Clinical Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6368449JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Critical Care & Surgery
Band 8a
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
We are seeking a highly motivated, forward thinking clinical pharmacist with a passion for developing new ideas to join our well established critical care and surgery teams. The successful candidate will lead on delivering a patient focused service to critical care patients with emphasis on supporting surgical patients requiring critical care and HDU support. Key to this will be developing the role of the pharmacist prescriber, looking at innovative ways to improve medicines optimisation for our critical care and surgical population. The postholder will be an integral part of the critical care team, working alongside both the medicine critical care senior clinical pharmacist as well as clinicians to lead on the provision of pharmacy support. The postholder will in addition provide clinical advice and support to the Anaesthetics sub-speciality. This post is based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital although there is an expectation that the postholder would work closely with colleagues at all sites to support continuing patient care.
Main duties of the job
You will be a motivated individual who will assist in shaping the service and the clinical contribution we provide. Ideally you will hold an independent prescribing qualification or be willing to work towards. Within your area of responsibility you will:
- Provide leadership to both critical care and surgery including attendance on the daily ward rounds and input into the MDT
- Provide prescribing and clinical support to the critical care unit and surgical wards
- Support the acute pain team in providing post-operative pain management
- Support anaesthetics with advice and support and areas such as clinical guidelines, patient safety and governance.
You will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. You will work closely with Clinicians and Nursing colleagues to support and promote the safe and effective use of medicines as well as ensuring the cost-effective use of resources. This will include attendance at relevant directorate forums.
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, 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential Criteria
- 1st degree - Vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years)
- One year's pre-registration training
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate clinical qualification (over and above that of the 1st degree, preferably at Masters level) and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate a similar level of knowledge
- Independent prescribing qualification or commitment to achieving on appointment
- Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
- IT skills to at least European Computer Driving Licence standard or equivalent experience
- Significant relevant post-registration hospital experience
- Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
- Experience of supervising staff
- Demonstrable experience within clinical informatics, including using the trusts electronic prescribing system
Desirable Criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
- Experience of managing staff
- Involvement in critical care networks or specialist interest groups
Person specification
Qualifications/Registration/Experience
Essential criteria
- 1st degree - Vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years)
- One year's pre-registration training
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate clinical qualification (over and above that of the 1st degree, preferably at Masters level) and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate a similar level of knowledge
- Independent prescribing qualification or commitment to achieving on appointment
- Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
- IT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
- Significant relevant post-registration hospital experience
- Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisation
- Experience of supervising staff
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
- Experience of managing staff
- Involvement in critical care networks or specialist interest groups
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
- Laura Smith
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist (Acute Medicine & NSECH)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2932729
- Additional information
Lynne Henderson
Lead Clinical Pharmacist (Surgery & Pain)
0191 2932729
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