Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care

Job overview

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary and Acute Care (Morpeth / Ashington / Cramlington)

We have a great opportunity for pharmacists wishing to develop their careers as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. With the highest proportion of pharmacist prescribers in the country, our clinicians use their skills to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home, or care home).

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacists to develop or maintain their skills within primary care and hospital pharmacy. Job plans will be structured to ensure pharmacists work across both sectors to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic  pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across the Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) practices of Wellway, Lintonville and Northumbria Way to help meet their population needs. This clinical role will involve supporting patients with long-term conditions, medication review and patient facing medicines support to ensure that care is personalised to ‘what matters’ to patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within primary and secondary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
• To provide leadership on matters pertaining to medicines optimisation within primary and secondary care , to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
• To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines optimisation encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, supply, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
• To manage the care of specific patients, as part of the team.
• To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility.
• To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
• To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
• To contribute to collection of clinical key performance indicators.