Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care (Morpeth / Ashington / Cramlington)
We have a great opportunity for pharmacists wishing to develop their careers as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. With the highest proportion of pharmacist prescribers in the country, our clinicians use their skills to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home, or care home).
Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacists to develop or maintain their skills within primary care. With full access to acute trust teams and resources, this will help to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across the Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) practices of Wellway, Lintonville and Northumbria Way to help meet their population needs. This clinical role will involve supporting patients with long-term conditions, medication review and patient facing medicines support to ensure that care is personalised to ‘what matters’ to patients.
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, as well as our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. In addition to acute hospital pharmacy services we provide pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to four of our local primary care networks with a combined population of 190,000. We also deliver locally commissioned integrated pharmacy services to care homes, frailty, living well with pain and palliative care. We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages 12 GP practices with around 130,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside with significant growth within the organisation happening in the next 6 months. NPC is a not for profit, at scale provider of primary care services in Northumberland and North Tyneside with an ambition to work at scale with like-minded practices, improving resilience and quality of services for patients.
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within primary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
To provide leadership on matters pertaining to medicines optimisation within primary care , to advise on medicines use (risk, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines.
To assist in the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines optimisation encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, supply, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
To manage the care of specific patients, as part of the team.
To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility.
To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
To contribute to collection of clinical key performance indicators

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