Job summary
We are delighted to offer this new post in our Integrated Clinical Pharmacy Team as a result of service expansion. Based in Gosforth, we are a team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians who support patients registered with general practices right across the city by prescribing, monitoring and changing medicines at transfer of care or following review and supporting the practices to manage medicine related problems such as side effects, stock unavailability and formulation changes for people with swallowing difficulties.
Our ideal candidate has strong professional decision making skills and works well in a team; as part of the trust's large clinical pharmacy team, you will be well supported with clinical supervision, medicines information resources, personal development planning and wellbeing.
If the successful candidate can demonstrate they meet or exceed the criteria in Advanced Stage 1 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Advanced Pharmacy Framework, they will be offered the Band 8a job description; if the candidate is working towards Advanced Stage 1 they will be offered the Band 7 job description and progressed to the Band 8a as soon as they demonstrate they meet them. There is no requirement from the Trust for the candidate to credential/submit a portfolio for assessment by the RPS and, if they choose to do so, the candidate will be personally responsible for paying the credentialing fee.
- Interview Date 19/06/2023
- 18 Hours 45 Minutes/Week
Main duties of the job
Support, shared decisions and education for patients starting, titrating and changing medicines.
Clinical supervision for pharmacists and clinical pharmacy technicians and education and training for trainees.
Support for GPs, practice staff, community nurses, carers and care homes with medicines related problems.
Monitoring, titrating and reviewing medicines to ensure they are safely and effectively meeting patients' health goals.
Quality Improvement, clinical audit and benchmarking against other pharmacy services to continuously improve the service.
Please call and/or visit us if you would like to meet our team or find out more information about the role.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
Rated 'Outstanding' by theCQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, 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, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Band 8a - Salary £50,952 - £57,349
- 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 NHSservices.
- 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 (Non-Medical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individuals 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 andreadmissions 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 professionals 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 £43,742 - £50,056
- 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 andreadmissions 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).
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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 months pay.
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Band 8a - Salary £50,952 - £57,349
- 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 NHSservices.
- 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 (Non-Medical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individuals 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 andreadmissions 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 professionals 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 £43,742 - £50,056
- 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 andreadmissions 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).
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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 months pay.
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Person Specification
Meets All Band 8a Criteria
Essential
- 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
- 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
Meets All Band 7 Criteria
Essential
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Meets All Band 8a Criteria
Essential
- 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
- 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
Meets All Band 7 Criteria
Essential
- 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
- 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
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
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).
