Job summary
We are delighted to offer this exciting, part-time permanent post in the Pharmacy Prescription Hub. The successful candidate will be joining an established team of friendly, innovative and enthusiastic Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Business professionals in a patient facing role supporting patients in primary care across the city. You will make a real difference for patients at risk of medication related harm following major health events and transfer of care between settings.
You will be supported in practice by a named Senior Clinical Pharmacist and GP, as well as our talented, research-active multidisciplinary teams.
Our ideal candidate will have already completed or enrolled on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway with CPPE and be an experienced Independent Pharmacist prescriber already working at Band 8a level.
Candidates who demonstrate all the competencies required of Advanced Stage 1 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF) will be appointed at AfC Band 8a. Candidates working toward those competencies will be appointed at Band 7 and supported to achieve those competencies. If AfC Band 8a competence is not achieved within two years of appointment, we will offer redeployment.
- Interview date: 9th 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
Medicines information and advice to other healthcare professionals and patients.
Digital/telephone support and monitoring for patients to help them achieve their health goals with medicines.
Clinical supervision and support for our Pharmacy Technician teams.
Integration with local community pharmacies and the Trust to improve patient care and safety and reduce health inequalities.
Quality improvement and clinical audit.
Medicines governance support for primary care.
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
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 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 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 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 £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 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
Job description
Job 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 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 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 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 £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 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
Person Specification
All Criteria for Band 8a
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
All Criteria for Band 7
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
All Criteria for Band 8a
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
All Criteria for Band 7
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
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).
