Job summary
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.
About us
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 acronymICORE; 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.
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- Clinical pharmacy experience in hospital setting
- Experience of leadership
- Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
Desirable
- Experience as a line manager
- Experience of service development or improvement
- Working in urgent and emergency care
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- 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
- Evidence of innovative practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Clinical pharmacy experience in hospital setting
- Experience of leadership
- Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
Desirable
- Experience as a line manager
- Experience of service development or improvement
- Working in urgent and emergency care
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- 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
- Evidence of innovative practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
