Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Urgent and Emergency Care

NHS; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare service in Gateshead is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to lead pharmacy services in the urgent and emergency care sectors. The successful candidate will provide vital support and expertise in medication management while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Key responsibilities include advising on medications, ensuring patient safety, and contributing to service improvement initiatives. Candidates should have substantial clinical pharmacy experience and be registered with the GPhC. The position offers an engaging environment with potential for impactful healthcare delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of clinical pharmacy experience in a hospital setting.
• Proven leadership experience in a clinical pharmacy environment.
• Experience with clinical audits or quality improvement efforts.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy input within urgent and emergency care departments.
• Collaborate with MDTs to support patient care.
• Manage and supervise junior pharmacy colleagues.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy experience in hospital setting

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to prioritise own workload

Specialist knowledge of pharmacy systems

Evidence of innovative practice

Education

Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience

Job description

Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Urgent and Emergency Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead, develop and participate in specialist clinical pharmacy services within the Urgent and Emergency Care service at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated senior clinical pharmacist to provide expert advice on medicines and ensure safe, effective and high quality care to patients within the fast-paced emergency care setting.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work within the urgent care MDT, providing specialist clinical pharmacy advice to support the patient journey. This includes accident and emergency, same day emergency care and urgent treatment centres.

Key responsibilities include medicines reconciliation, prescribing, supporting administration of time critical medication and facilitating timely discharge. You will work closely with the Emergency care clinical pharmacist to deliver and evaulate a robust clinical pharmacy service across the Emergency Care Centre. You engage with key stakeholders to drive innovation and improve medicines optimisation and provide leadership and line management to pharmacy colleagues.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input and maintain high standards of medicines management across the urgent and emergency care departments.
• To work closely as part of the MDT within the Emergency Care Centre, including accident and emergency, same day emergency care (SDEC), urgent treatment centre (UTC) and admission wards.
• A focus on supporting the patients journey. This will include ensuring timely medication history and reconciliation, rationalising and prescribing medication, providing patient medication counselling and facilitating safe discharge to ensure patient flow.
• Supporting the prescribing and administration of time critical medication within the emergency department.
• Collaborate with the acute and emergency care pharmacist in relation to service provision and service development within the Emergency Care Centre.
• Support with development and updates of clinical guidelines, policies and SOPs.
• As part of the team you will work closely alongside other pharmacy colleagues, providing leadership, clinical supervision and line management.
• Contribute to innovation in the urgent and emergency care department to look for opportunities for admission avoidance, medicines optimisation and improving transfer of care between hospital and community and front of house to back of house areas.
• Work to deliver the 7 day clinical pharmacy service by supporting the late night, on call and weekend rota.
• Provide support to the lead clinical pharmacist for medicine with regards to medicines management, incident resolving, staff training and integration with the urgent care senior team.
• Engagement with key stakeholders e.g ward managers, matrons, chief matron, service line managers and clinical and safecare leads.

Person Specification

Experience

• Clinical pharmacy experience in hospital setting
• Experience of leadership
• Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
• Experience as a line manager
• Experience of service development or improvement
• Working in urgent and emergency care

Knowledge and skills

• Evidence of in depth clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Specialist knowledge of pharmacy systems
• Evidence of self-reflection and continuous professional development
• IT literate
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Evidence of innovative practice

Qualifications

• Registered as a pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience

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.