Lead Clinical Pharmacist
Posted 3 hours 50 minutes ago by NHS
The closing date is 07 October 2025
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: 15th October 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.
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Main duties of the job- Band 8a: 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.
- Band 7: 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 and readmissions 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
- Band 7 responsibilities continue: Promote safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines; provide clinical supervision; run clinics; manage therapy titration; reconcile medicines after transfers; support NICE and other guidelines; contribute to multi-morbidity reviews; train staff; manage queries; respond to drug withdrawals and alerts; ensure safety with medicines across settings.
- M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course and pre-registration experience
- Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
- Clinical Diploma or equivalent experience
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Clinical Diploma/Masters
- 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
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.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust