Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty

We are seeking a highly motivated, forward thinking clinical pharmacist with a passion for developing new ideas to join our frailty clinical pharmacy team and North Tyneside General Hospital Leadership team. The successful candidate will lead on delivering a patient focused service to medical patients with an emphasis on supporting frailty and elderly medicine specialities. They will also be part of the senior leadership team at North Tyneside General Hospital.

Key to this will be developing the role of the pharmacist prescriber, looking at innovative ways to improve medicines optimisation for our acute and emergency patients. The postholder will be an integral part of the frailty team, working alongside pharmacy colleagues and clinicians to lead on the provision of pharmacy support. This post is based at North Tyneside General Hospital although there is an expectation that the post holder would work closely with colleagues at all sites to support continuing patient care. This will include trust-wide clinical commitments including weekend working and on-call.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

You will be a motivated individual who will assist in shaping the service and the clinical contribution we provide. Ideally you will hold an independent prescribing qualification or be willing to work towards. Within your area of responsibility, you will:

• Provide leadership to both the acute medicine and emergency care specialities including input into the MDT
• Provide prescribing and clinical support to medical wards
• Support frailty and elderly care colleagues with advice and support, and in areas such as clinical guidelines, patient safety and governance.

You will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. You will work closely with Clinicians and Nursing colleagues to support and promote the safe and effective use of medicines as well as ensuring the cost-effective use of resources. This will include attendance at relevant directorate forums.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, as well as the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Essential Criteria

• 1st degree - Vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years)
• One year's pre-registration training
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Postgraduate clinical qualification (over and above that of the 1st degree, preferably at Masters level) and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate a similar level of knowledge
• Independent prescribing qualification or commitment to achieving on appointment
• Evidence of continuing professional development to at least meet the mandatory requirements of the GPhC
• IT skills to at least European Computer Driving Licence standard or equivalent experience
• Significant relevant post-registration hospital experience
• Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
• Experience of supervising staff
• Demonstrable experience within clinical informatics, including using the trusts electronic prescribing system

Desirable Criteria

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
• Experience of managing staff
• Involvement in critical care networks or specialist interest groups

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.