Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Occasional late nights, weekend and on call provision)
- Job ref
- 297-7625347
- Employer
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gateshead
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Urgent and Emergency Care
NHS AfC: Band 8a
In the event of excessive applications being received this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible
IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.
All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead, develop and participate in specialist clinical pharmacy services within the Urgent and Emergency Care service at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated senior clinical pharmacist to provide expert advice on medicines and ensure safe, effective and high quality care to patients within the fast-paced emergency care setting.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work within the urgent care MDT, providing specialist clinical pharmacy advice to support the patient journey. This includes accident and emergency, same day emergency care and urgent treatment centres.
Key responsibilities include medicines reconciliation, prescribing, supporting administration of time critical medication and facilitating timely discharge. You will work closely with the Emergency care clinical pharmacist to deliver and evaulate a robust clinical pharmacy service across the Emergency Care Centre. You engage with key stakeholders to drive innovation and improve medicines optimisation and provide leadership and line management to pharmacy colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input and maintain high standards of medicines management across the urgent and emergency care departments.
- To work closely as part of the MDT within the Emergency Care Centre, including accident and emergency, same day emergency care (SDEC), urgent treatment centre (UTC) and admission wards.
- A focus on supporting the patients journey. This will include ensuring timely medication history and reconciliation, rationalising and prescribing medication, providing patient medication counselling and facilitating safe discharge to ensure patient flow.
- Supporting the prescribing and administration of time critical medication within the emergency department.
- Collaborate with the acute and emergency care pharmacist in relation to service provision and service development within the Emergency Care Centre.
- Support with development and updates of clinical guidelines, policies and SOPs.
- As part of the team you will work closely alongside other pharmacy colleagues, providing leadership, clinical supervision and line management.
- Contribute to innovation in the urgent and emergency care department to look for opportunities for admission avoidance, medicines optimisation and improving transfer of care between hospital and community and front of house to back of house areas.
- Work to deliver the 7 day clinical pharmacy service by supporting the late night, on call and weekend rota.
- Provide support to the lead clinical pharmacist for medicine with regards to medicines management, incident resolving, staff training and integration with the urgent care senior team.
- Engagement with key stakeholders e.g ward managers, matrons, chief matron, service line managers and clinical and safecare leads.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical pharmacy experience in hospital setting
- Experience of leadership
- Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
Desirable criteria
- Experience as a line manager
- Experience of service development or improvement
- Working in urgent and emergency care
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of in depth clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent consultation skills
- Specialist knowledge of pharmacy systems
- Evidence of self-reflection and continuous professional development
- IT literate
- Ability to prioritise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of innovative practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Townsley
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 4456742
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