Job overview
- Would you like to play a part in the Hospital at home service in the beautiful location of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland. We have a rare opportunity for permanent position to lead and oversee clinical pharmacy input to the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and frailty virtual ward team to deliver care to the virtual ward and Urgent Care Response teams. You will contribute to patient care both within the unit base setting, and via patient home visits where appropriate. Lead on medication provision and delivery across organisational boundaries. Complete Medication reviews, medicines reconciliation and pharmaceutical care plans for patients admitted to the virtual ward. Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
Main duties of the job
You will work as an independent prescriber, optimising medicines and promoting appropriate, evidence-based, and cost-effective prescribing and deprescribing as part of the wider hospital at home team.
You will be using your clinical skills and knowledge in investigations, analysing, and implementing actions for medication related incidents within the virtual ward.
The provision of specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge to a range of health and social care professionals on the safe prescribing, handling, and administration of medicines.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- • Worked as a clinical pharmacist at a high level
- • Creating, developing, and reviewing protocol and/or guidelines
- • Supervising and undertaking audit and reporting results appropriately
- • Experience and involvement of service development, teaching, tutoring, or mentoring of pre-registration pharmacists.
- • Ability to travel independently throughout the area.
Desirable
- • Experience prescribing in a specialist area
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- • Professional knowledge acquired through vocational degree in pharmacy
- • Signficant pre-registration training and experience
- • Significant post-qualification experience in a relevant role, practising as a pharmacist in hospital or primary care
- • Good all-round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
- • Experience of supervising staff and leading a team
- • Able to work autonomously and within a team
Desirable
- • Experience of community services.
Qualifications & training
Essential
- • Qualified to a degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
- • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council or Great Britain as a practising pharmacist.
- • Post graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent.
- • Non-medical prescriber qualification
Desirable
- • RPS Faculty membership.
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This advert is for Senior Pharmacist (Hospital at Home) with South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jun 2026.
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