Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary & Acute Care

We are seeking an enthusiastic, patient-focused, independently motivated pharmacist to join our team working for Northumbria Healthcare Trust Pharmacy Department, mainly based in our Hexham hub.
We provide a proactive and collaborative, high quality medicines optimisation service for frail elderly patients in care homes and their own homes, working closely with colleagues in health and social care across both the primary and secondary care sectors.
The role will provide a mix of face to face, patient-centred consultations and telephone support to patients, family members and carers as well as involvement with multidisciplinary team meetings, care home visits and ward rounds.
We need an experienced pharmacist with a clinical diploma or equivalent clinical pharmacy experience, and a non-medical prescribing qualification would be desirable.
The postholder would mainly be based at Hexham in the West with one day working within our hub in Blyth/Central (Ashington/Newbiggin).
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, Working within professional boundaries to provide person-centred, evidence-based structured medication reviews for care home residents and frail elderly patients in their own homes to ensure appropriate, cost-effective and safe provision of medicines.
Targeted review of care home residents and frail elderly patients in their own homes to help minimise risk at transfer of care including those patients who have recurrent falls, complex polypharmacy, swallowing difficulties and those taking high risk medicines.
Close working with the multi-disciplinary team, which is likely to include attendance at care home MDT meetings. Interacting with a wide variety of health/social care professionals including, GPs, community nurses/matrons, care home staff, specialist secondary care consultants (e.g., geriatricians, Parkinson's disease specialists), the old age psychiatry team, and pharmacy colleagues in community pharmacy, GP practices and the hospital setting.
Clinical leadership and support for a team of integrated care home technicians.
Provision of expert advice, information and recommendations on medicines and prescribing.
Promote safe and effective use of medicines, minimise waste and reduce medicines related incidents/errors.
The role is patient-facing, with reviews conducted through a combination of telephone, face-to-face and video consultations with patients/residents and their families/carers.

Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. 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., To support the clinical pharmacy in care home and frail elderly team to help deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services within care homes in Hexham and the surrounding areas.
To complete targeted review of care home residents and frail elderly patients, to help minimise risk at transfer of care including those patients who have recurrent falls, complex polypharmacy, swallowing difficulties and those taking high risk medicines.
To undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own assigned areas of responsibility.
To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and those pertaining to medicines management within the community and care homes.
To participate in medical and other ward rounds as well as multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
To role model compassionate and inclusive care for our care home residents and frail elderly patients including using your clinical skills to carry out structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation; improve safety and quality with regards to medications in line with local and national policies; and reduce inappropriate prescribing in these often-complex patients with a strong emphasis on shared decision making with residents/family members.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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