Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

We are delighted to offer this exciting, part-time permanent post in the Pharmacy Prescription Hub. The successful candidate will be joining an established team of friendly, innovative and enthusiastic Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Business professionals in a patient facing role supporting patients in primary care across the city. You will make a real difference for patients at risk of medication related harm following major health events and transfer of care between settings.

You will be supported in practice by a named Senior Clinical Pharmacist and GP, as well as our talented, research-active multidisciplinary teams.

Our ideal candidate will have already completed or enrolled on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway with CPPE and be an experienced Independent Pharmacist prescriber already working at Band 8a level.

Candidates who demonstrate all the competencies required of Advanced Stage 1 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF) will be appointed at AfC Band 8a. Candidates working toward those competencies will be appointed at Band 7 and supported to achieve those competencies. If AfC Band 8a competence is not achieved within two years of appointment, we will offer redeployment.

• Interview date: 9th September 2025
• 18 hours 45 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Main duties of the job

Medicines information and advice to other healthcare professionals and patients.

Digital/telephone support and monitoring for patients to help them achieve their health goals with medicines.

Clinical supervision and support for our Pharmacy Technician teams.

Integration with local community pharmacies and the Trust to improve patient care and safety and reduce health inequalities.

Quality improvement and clinical audit.

Medicines governance support for primary care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Band 8a

Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata

• To organise and develop clinical pharmacy services within designated patient populations.
• The designated population will be a primary care network, Directorate service or other population/cohort across Newcastle geography of a similar size (e.g. care home residents or the frail population). Responsibilities include building and developing relationships between local community pharmacies and other NHS services.
• To promote the safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines by working closely with colleagues from all disciplines within the designated patient population to share good practice and change prescribing behaviours where necessary.
• To perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
• Perform the professional role of a registered Independent Prescriber (NonMedical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individual’s scope of competence.
• Provide expertise in structured clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients, regardless of setting. This could be in secondary care, primary care, intermediate care or domiciliary settings as befits the needs of the patients.
• Run clinics where medicines pay a key role in the management of patients with long term conditions; for example, up titration of heart failure and hypertension medicines when clinically appropriate, reduction of cardiovascular risk, anticoagulation, management of chronic lung diseases.
• Help patients to meet their health goals, reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and unnecessary medicines waste through structured clinical medication review.
• Reconcile medicines following transfer between care settings and work with patients and their usual care providers to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post transfer of care.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.
• Interface and collaborate with community pharmacy, medicines optimisation and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of Stock Shortage Protocols and the Repeat Dispensing and New Medicines services.
• Support the development of safe, efficient systems for prescribing and managing medicines within the designated patient population. This can include but is not limited to advising on prescribing workflow and procedures, sharing good practice in and between care settings and promoting the use of facilitative technologies.
• Manage patients and health care professional’s medicine queries.
• Collaborate with colleagues in all settings to implement drug withdrawals, shortages and alerts e.g. from the Clinical Commissioning Group or Medicines Health Regulatory Authority aimed at improving medicines safety.
• Work with other healthcare professionals and patients to implement NICE, Shared Care and other evidence based guidelines.
• Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews, multidisciplinary reviews and learning from serious incidents and near-misses.
• Provide medicines information, clinical supervision and training to healthcare professionals and administrative staff working with the designated patient population.
• Review and interpret pathology results for patients in their care.
• Act as a source of medicines information for healthcare professionals patients and carers (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stock medicines).

Band 7

Salary £47,810  - £54,710 pro rata

• Promote the safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines by working closely with multidisciplinary team colleagues.
• Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
• Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of their patients.
• Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
• Run clinics where medicines pay a key role in the management of patients with long term conditions.
• Undertake up titration of Heart Failure and Hypertension medicines when clinically identified.
• Undertake minor ailments triage and support walk in centre activity where required: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.
• Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
• Reconcile medicines following transfer from acute care and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post transfer of care.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
• Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
• Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
• Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety with support from Trust Pharmacy
• Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines
• Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
• Provide medicines information and training to other healthcare professionals and admin staff
• Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines
• Act as a source of medicines information for all of the multidisciplinary team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives (e.g. around out of stocks