Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Lipid Management and Secondary Prevention

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join a nationally acclaimed Secondary Prevention Service for the patients in Gateshead. This is an innovative service commenced in September 2023 that is pivotal to supporting the national agenda of cardiovascular disease prevention and reducing premature deaths from CVD. The Gateshead Secondary Prevention Service has won 2 prestigious Health Service Journal awards (Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year 2025; and Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS 2026) and was also winner of the “Outstanding NHS Industry Collaboration” award at the regional Bright Ideas in Healthcare Awards 2024.

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and highly skilled clinical pharmacist, with a prescribing qualification and a keen interest in working in lipid management, secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health. Under guidance and mentorship of the consultants leading the service, the post holder will provide specialist clinical pharmacist input and contribute towards existing longitudinal data collection on patient benefit and outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work closely as part of the established Secondary Prevention MDT to review patient referrals into the service. Supported by a team of senior medical consultants from relevant specialities, they will then initiate and monitor patients on guideline-directed medical therapies to support achievement of cardiovascular risk factor targets.

As part of the team, you will work closely alongside the cardiology, endocrinology, stroke, renal and vascular surgical teams at Gateshead to provide patient-centered care and ensure optimisation of therapies.

You will share progress of the project with senior pharmacy colleagues, service line manager for medicine and the key stakeholders of cardiology, endocrinology and stroke teams. There is also the opportunity for participating in a regional lipid network to share ideas and experiences.

A self-starter with strong communication skills, passion for improving patient care, and an interest in audit and research who will maintain our commitment to the trust’s core values would be highly encouraged to join our team who have had work widely presented and are steadily gaining recognition for delivering a high standard of innovative, holistic patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input into the secondary prevention of ASCVD for Gateshead patients who have undergone the following CVD events:

-Myocardial infarction

-Revascularisation for peripheral vascular disease

-Ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack

• To triage referrals for secondary prevention of ASCVD, ensuring relevant tests and information are available in advance of the MDT.
• To work closely as part of the MDT alongside cardiology, endocrinology, stroke, renal and vascular teams to discuss referrals, generate treatment plans and escalate patients who require specialist input e.g. familial hypercholesterolemia.
• Contribute to clinics to assess, treat and monitor patients for secondary prevention of ASCVD. This will include new patient clinics and follow up clinics where you will prescribe guideline based medication, ensure patients receive appropriate counselling and monitoring and communicate treatment plans with primary care.
• You will work collaboratively with the patient, the MDT and primary care to offer a patient centred approach to treatment options.
• You will provide education to patients, pharmacy, nursing and medical colleagues regarding lipid management and secondary prevention.
• You will have the opportunity due to the innovative nature of the post to partake in regional and national research. With the possibility of sharing research in peer reviewed publications, via conferences and presentations and networking with other lipid optimisation teams.
• You will have opportunities to participate in clinical trials including commercial trials undertaken by the consultant members in the MDT.
• You will have opportunity to participate within regional network to support regional primary care teams with lipid management.
• You will support the inpatient clinical pharmacy team with clinical sessions on the wards or within the dispensary.
• Work to deliver the 7 day clinical Pharmacy service and support the late night, on call and weekend rota.
• As a senior member of the team you will support students, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians by providing clinical supervision and education
• You will provide leadership and management within the pharmacy team

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.