Job vacancy: Lead Clinical Pharmacist, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 317 Trustwide

Job summary

Main area: 317 Pharmacy Staff Recharges
Grade: Band 7/8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week (flexible working considered)
Job ref: 317-2025-34-06-DR

Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trustwide
Town: 317 Trustwide
Salary: £47,810 - £62,682 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/08/2025 23:59
Interview date: 09/09/2025

Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Band 7/8a

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Band 8a

Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata

To organise and develop clinical pharmacy services within designated patient populations.
The designated population will be a primary care network, Directorate service or other population/cohort across Newcastle geography of a similar size (e.g. care home residents or the frail population). Responsibilities include building and developing relationships between local community pharmacies and other NHS services.
To promote the safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines by working closely with colleagues from all disciplines within the designated patient population to share good practice and change prescribing behaviours where necessary.
To perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
Perform the professional role of a registered Independent Prescriber (NonMedical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individual’s scope of competence.
Provide expertise in structured clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients, regardless of setting. This could be in secondary care, primary care, intermediate care or domiciliary settings as befits the needs of the patients.
Run clinics where medicines pay a key role in the management of patients with long term conditions; for example, up titration of heart failure and hypertension medicines when clinically appropriate, reduction of cardiovascular risk, anticoagulation, management of chronic lung diseases.
Help patients to meet their health goals, reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and unnecessary medicines waste through structured clinical medication review.
Reconcile medicines following transfer between care settings and work with patients and their usual care providers to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post transfer of care.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.
Interface and collaborate with community pharmacy, medicines optimisation and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of Stock Shortage Protocols and the Repeat Dispensing and New Medicines services.
Support the development of safe, efficient systems for prescribing and managing medicines within the designated patient population. This can include but is not limited to advising on prescribing workflow and procedures, sharing good practice in and between care settings and promoting the use of facilitative technologies.
Manage patients and health care professional’s medicine queries.
Collaborate with colleagues in all settings to implement drug withdrawals, shortages and alerts e.g. from the Clinical Commissioning Group or Medicines Health Regulatory Authority aimed at improving medicines safety.
Work with other healthcare professionals and patients to implement NICE, Shared Care and other evidence based guidelines.
Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews, multidisciplinary reviews and learning from serious incidents and near-misses.
Provide medicines information, clinical supervision and training to healthcare professionals and administrative staff working with the designated patient population.
Review and interpret pathology results for patients in their care.
Act as a source of medicines information for healthcare professionals patients and carers (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stock medicines).

Band 7

Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata

Promote the safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines by working closely with multidisciplinary team colleagues.
Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of their patients.
Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
Run clinics where medicines pay a key role in the management of patients with long term conditions.
Undertake up titration of Heart Failure and Hypertension medicines when clinically identified.
Undertake minor ailments triage and support walk in centre activity where required: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.
Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
Reconcile medicines following transfer from acute care and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post transfer of care.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and
readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety with support from Trust Pharmacy
Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines
Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
Provide medicines information and training to other healthcare professionals and admin staff
Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines
Act as a source of medicines information for all of the multidisciplinary team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives (e.g. around out of stocks

Person specification

All Criteria for Band 8a

Essential criteria

M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course and pre-registration experience
Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
Clinical Diploma or equivalent experience
Independent Prescriber
Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Well-developed clinical pharmacy knowledge across all aspects of drug use and the therapeutics of long term conditions
Knowledge of clinical audit and its role in pharmacy and medicine
Extensive post registration experience in hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy or primary care pharmacy, some at a senior level.
Demonstrate a developing clinical role
Demonstrate they have been involved in the area of clinical audit
Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information
Influencing and negotiating skills
Basic computer skills

Desirable criteria

Clinical Masters
RPS Membership
RPS Faculty Membership
RPS Credentialing
Specialist knowledge of the designated patient population or directorates
Awareness of the role and responsibilities of the pre-registration pharmacist tutor.
Demonstrate they have undertaken a managerial role
Post registration primary care experience
Lecturing skills
Medicines information skills
NHSBSA ePACT2
Primary care record systems e.g Emis, SystemOne
Advanced consultation skills including Health Coaching and Shared Decision Making
Leadership Skills

All Criteria for Band 7

Essential criteria

M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course and pre-registration experience
Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
RPS Membership
Significant post registration experience in Hospital Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy or Primary Care Pharmacy.
Demonstrate a developing clinical role
Demonstrate they have been involved in the area of clinical audit
Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Well-developed clinical pharmacy knowledge across all aspects of drug use
Knowledge of clinical audit and its role in pharmacy and medicine.
Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information
One to One Communication
Influencing and negotiating skills
Basic computer skills

Desirable criteria

Clinical Diploma/Masters
Independent Prescriber
Faculty membership
Specialist knowledge of the clinical area(s) or directorates involved.
Awareness of the role and responsibilities of the pre-registration pharmacist tutor.
Teaching skills
Microsoft office
Consultation skills

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. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining Excellence

Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Julia Blagburn
Job title: Consultant Pharmacist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0191 2820911

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Job summary

Employer heading

Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Band 7/8a

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

All Criteria for Band 8a

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

All Criteria for Band 7

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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Applicant requirements

Documents to download

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