Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Stroke

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Should you be successful, you will work closely with the consultants and wider MDT to deliver the trust values of safe, compassionate and joined up care. Our mission is 'right first time, every time'.

You will demonstrate leadership in the stroke speciality and provide specialist advice on medicines use. This will include professional collaboration to develop services and to support the team with evidence-based practice and pharmaceutical issues.

You will be involved in building relationships between pharmacy and the ward team and a key part of the role will be to deliver the governance agenda, teaching, quality improvement, service development and sustainability. We will support the successful candidate with mentoring and development opportunities including practicing as an independent prescriber, advanced/ consultant portfolio development and other further education opportunities.

You will provide leadership to other pharmacy staff and will support the Lead Pharmacists in moving the trust's pharmacy strategy forward. You need to be able to work autonomously, whilst motivating others and being a team player.

Job responsibilities

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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From April 9th 2025 - Healthcare assistants - You must have been employed for a minimum of two years of as a HCA within the NHS for the Trust to consider sponsorship (we will only consider sponsorship if you meet this criteria and have a current visa expiring within 3 months).