Senior Clinical Pharmacist for Medicine

To lead, develop and participate in specialist clinical pharmacy services within the medical business unit, providing expert advice on medicines management to ensure safe, effective and high quality care to patients.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input and maintain high standards of medicines management across the medical business unit.
• To work closely as part of the MDT to develop high standards of prescribing, clinical reviews and a focus on polypharmacy and de prescribing.
• As part of the team you will work closely alongside other pharmacy colleagues, providing leadership, clinical supervision and management.
• Contribute to horizon scanning in the pharmacy department to look for opportunities to promote medicines optimisation and improve transfer of care between hospital and community.
• 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 with regards to medicines management, incident resolving, staff training and integration with the medical wards.
• Engagement with key stakeholders e.g ward managers, matrons, chief matron, service line managers and clinical and safecare leads.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist for Medicine will be responsible for the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and medicines management within the Med 2 directorate. This includes the cardiology, diabetes and endocrinology, respiratory, gastroenterology and general medical wards. Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge and independent prescribing qualification will support patients throughout their hospital journey.

The role will involve direct line management and leadership of pharmacy staff including appraisals, objective setting and providing support and professional development opportunities to the team.

Updates will be provided to the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Medicine to ensure continuous review of clinical services provided and monitoring of key performance indicators.

MDT working closely with senior leaders within the medical business unit including senior medical and nursing staff, matrons and service line managers to support service delivery, incident reviews and medicines governance.

Maintain and evidence own clinical and professional development and support the education, training and supervision of others within the team and the medical directorate.

Work to deliver the 7 day clinical Pharmacy service by supporting the late night, on call and weekend rota.

Person Specification Experience

• Clinical pharmacy experience in a hospital setting
• Experience of leadership
• Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
• Experience a line manager
• Experience of service development or improvement

Knowledge and skills

• Evidence of in depth clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Specialist knowledge of Pharmacy systems
• Evidence of self-reflection and continuous professional supervision
• IT literate
• Advanced clinical skills
• Evidence of innovative practice

Qualifications

• Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.