Clinical Pharmacist - Primary CareNHS

Job summary

Clinical Pharmacist - Primary Care (NPC Ponteland / Haydon Bridge & Allendale)

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. We have one of the highest proportions of pharmacist prescribers in the country, using their skills for patients in GP practices, general wards, specialist clinics, care homes and patients' own homes.

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacists to develop 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.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to support medicines optimisation across Northumbria Primary Care's West Northumberland neighbourhood (NPC Ponteland and NPC Haydon Bridge & Allendale practices) 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. This includes, where appropriate prescribing medication as part of the developments within the profession to include prescribing upon qualification.

Job description

• To provide a personal clinical and professional contribution to the clinical pharmacy service within primary care. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in care homes.
• To assist in the provision of advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management on a regular basis. Medicines management encompasses the selection, procurement, delivery, prescribing, supply, administration and review of medicines 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 practice team.
• To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation particularly within own assigned area of responsibility.
• To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.

About us

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. 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 (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs. It operates over 14 major GP practices encompassing roughly 20 physical surgery locations across Northumberland and North Tyneside. NPC is a not for profit, at scale provider of primary care services in Northumberland and North Tyneside, improving resilience and quality of services for patients.

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.