Job summary
This new post will work closely with our Consultant Pharmacist for Integration, Business Support, GP and Director of Pharmacy to provide strategic leadership to our prescription hub service for primary care. Key deliverables for the first two years in post will include:
- reconfiguration of the service model, using prescribing data and workflow analytics to identify inefficiencies and target interventions while maintaining clinical safety and a patient-centred service.
- fostering a psychologically safe environment where staff feel empowered to raise concerns and use a systems approach to risk reduction.
- developing connections with IT, primary care, and community pharmacy, evolving seamless integration and communication across the system.
- mentoring less experienced pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, embedding quality improvement skills across the team and driving innovation.
- Interview Date Thursday 04 September 2025
- 18 Hours 45 Minutes/Week
- 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.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
This post will be embedded within the prescription hub service and have a minor operational component.
Key day to day skills for this role are coaching, mentoring, clinical supervision, quality improvement and medicines risk management. The prescription hub service is used by five primary care networks; building and maintaining professional relationships across the healthcare system is key to its success.
Dedicated time and support will be given for personal development, research, education, leadership and management pillars of practice.
Please get in touch for an informal chat about the role or to arrange a visit prior to making an application.
About us
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.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organise and develop clinical pharmacy services in designated patient populations. The designated population will be more than one 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 pharmacy professionals, regardless of employing organisation, and other NHS services.
- Provide professional leadership for the teams of pharmacy professionals.
- Perform the role of line manager and clinical supervisor for up to ten pharmacy professionals working across the designated populations.
- To promote the safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with colleagues from all disciplines to share good practice and change prescribing behaviours where necessary.
- To coordinate the activities of clinical pharmacy staff within Community Health and other designated directorates.
- To perform the professional role of a registered Independent Prescriber (Non-Medical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individuals scope of competence.
- Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
- 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. 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.
- 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).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organise and develop clinical pharmacy services in designated patient populations. The designated population will be more than one 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 pharmacy professionals, regardless of employing organisation, and other NHS services.
- Provide professional leadership for the teams of pharmacy professionals.
- Perform the role of line manager and clinical supervisor for up to ten pharmacy professionals working across the designated populations.
- To promote the safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with colleagues from all disciplines to share good practice and change prescribing behaviours where necessary.
- To coordinate the activities of clinical pharmacy staff within Community Health and other designated directorates.
- To perform the professional role of a registered Independent Prescriber (Non-Medical Prescriber) including prescribing and de-prescribing within the individuals scope of competence.
- Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist, including advice, supervision and co-operation with colleagues.
- 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. 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.
- 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).
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course
- Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
- Clinical Diploma or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- Clinical Masters
- Research Masters
- PhD or Professional doctorate (DPharm)
- RPS Membership
- RPS Faculty membership
- RPS Credentialing
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience in more than one sector of 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
- 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
- Knowledge of service improvement methodologies and their role in pharmacy and medicine
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the designated patient population(s) or directorates
- Awareness of the role and responsibilities of the pre-registration pharmacist tutor
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
- Evidence of understanding of Trust Business
- Experience of working in the Trust previously
- Demonstrate they have undertaken a managerial role
- Post registration primary care experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information
- One to One Communication
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Basic computer skills
- Literature review
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Teaching skills
- Root cause analysis/error investigation
- Medicines Information skills
- Microsoft office
- NHSBSA ePACT2
- Primary care record systems e.g. EMIS, SystmOne
- Advanced consultation skills including Health Coaching and Shared Decision Making
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course
- Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
- Clinical Diploma or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- Clinical Masters
- Research Masters
- PhD or Professional doctorate (DPharm)
- RPS Membership
- RPS Faculty membership
- RPS Credentialing
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience in more than one sector of 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
- 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
- Knowledge of service improvement methodologies and their role in pharmacy and medicine
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the designated patient population(s) or directorates
- Awareness of the role and responsibilities of the pre-registration pharmacist tutor
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
- Evidence of understanding of Trust Business
- Experience of working in the Trust previously
- Demonstrate they have undertaken a managerial role
- Post registration primary care experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information
- One to One Communication
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Basic computer skills
- Literature review
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Teaching skills
- Root cause analysis/error investigation
- Medicines Information skills
- Microsoft office
- NHSBSA ePACT2
- Primary care record systems e.g. EMIS, SystmOne
- Advanced consultation skills including Health Coaching and Shared Decision Making
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).
