Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6381301JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
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
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 our acute service. Where desired, our large pharmacy team can allow job plans to be structured to work across both primary and secondary care, however this post is for work within our acute clinical service.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for enthusiastic pharmacists to support medicines optimisation across our acute pharmacy service. This post will be rotational and will involve working across our main clinical sites, including The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and our base site hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham. Specialist input to a designated area will be required, exact details of the clinical speciality will be discussed at interview.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within an assigned area of responsibility. To lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk management, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines. To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation.
To assist in the provision of 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 provide excellent patient care, in primary and acute care settings, through direct patient facing activities. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced Pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
Day to day management of pre-registration pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and / or Band 6 pharmacists
To contribute to the day to day operational running of the pharmacy department e.g. by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Vocational master’s degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)/ 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
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
- Experience of supervising staff
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid 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
- Kate Smith
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Workforce Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 293 2729
- Additional information
Laura Smith
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