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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Pharmacist (Hospital at Home)

The closing date is 23 October 2025

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Job summary

Would you like to play a part in the Hospital at home service in the beautiful location of Hambleton and Richmondshire.

We have a rare opportunity for a 9-month maternity leave cover to lead and oversee clinical pharmacy input to the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and virtual ward team to deliver care to the virtual ward, community beds and Urgent Care Response teams.

You will contribute to patient care both within the unit base setting, and via patient home visits where appropriate.

Lead on medication provision and delivery across organisational boundaries.

Complete Medication reviews, medicines reconciliation and pharmaceutical care plans for patients admitted to the virtual ward.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

You will work as an independent prescriber, optimising medicines and promoting appropriate, evidence-based, and cost-effective prescribing and deprescribing as part of the wider hospital at home team.

You will be using your clinical skills and knowledge in investigations, analysing, and implementing actions for medication related incidents within the virtual ward.

The provision of specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge to a range of health and social care professionals on the safe prescribing, handling, and administration of medicines.

About us

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Details

Date posted

10 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

328-FCS-7418912-A

Job locations

Friarage Hospital

Bullamoor Road

Northallerton

DL6 1JG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & training

Essential

  • oQualified to a degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
  • oRegistration with the General Pharmaceutical council or Great Britain as a practising pharmacist.
  • oPost graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent.
  • oNon-medical prescriber qualification

Desirable

  • oRPS Faculty membership.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • oProfessional knowledge acquired through vocational degree in pharmacy
  • oSignficant pre-registration training and experience
  • oSignificant post-qualification experience in a relevant role, practising as a pharmacist in hospital or primary care
  • oGood all-round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
  • oExperience of supervising staff and leading a team
  • oAble to work autonomously and within a team

Desirable

  • oExperienceof community services.

Experience

Essential

  • oWorked as a clinical pharmacist at a high level
  • oCreating, developing, and reviewing protocol and/or guidelines
  • oSupervising and undertaking audit andreportingresults appropriately
  • oExperience and involvement of service development, teaching, tutoring, or mentoring of pre-registration pharmacists.
  • oAbility to travel independently throughout the area.

Desirable

  • oExperience prescribing in a specialist area
Person Specification

Qualifications & training

Essential

  • oQualified to a degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
  • oRegistration with the General Pharmaceutical council or Great Britain as a practising pharmacist.
  • oPost graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent.
  • oNon-medical prescriber qualification

Desirable

  • oRPS Faculty membership.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • oProfessional knowledge acquired through vocational degree in pharmacy
  • oSignficant pre-registration training and experience
  • oSignificant post-qualification experience in a relevant role, practising as a pharmacist in hospital or primary care
  • oGood all-round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
  • oExperience of supervising staff and leading a team
  • oAble to work autonomously and within a team

Desirable

  • oExperienceof community services.

Experience

Essential

  • oWorked as a clinical pharmacist at a high level
  • oCreating, developing, and reviewing protocol and/or guidelines
  • oSupervising and undertaking audit andreportingresults appropriately
  • oExperience and involvement of service development, teaching, tutoring, or mentoring of pre-registration pharmacists.
  • oAbility to travel independently throughout the area.

Desirable

  • oExperience prescribing in a specialist area

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Bullamoor Road

Northallerton

DL6 1JG


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Bullamoor Road

Northallerton

DL6 1JG


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Matron

Karen Smith

karen.smith49@nhs.net

01609779911

Details

Date posted

10 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

328-FCS-7418912-A

Job locations

Friarage Hospital

Bullamoor Road

Northallerton

DL6 1JG


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