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Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist
The closing date is 14 October 2025
Due to the promotion of the previous post holder, a vacancy has arisen for an experienced clinical pharmacist with management experience to lead our Medicine pharmacy team and develop clinical services.
We are looking for someone with vision, who can engage with and influence a range of different leaders and healthcare professionals including medical, nursing and pharmacy staff. Working closely with senior leaders in the Medicine and Emergency clinical board and the pharmacy leadership team, you will be expected to deliver operational and strategic priorities, such as delivering cost savings, reducing length of stay and improving patient safety.
The successful applicant may get the opportunity to work in a clinical area of their interest.
Main duties of the job
Key aspects of this role include:
* Deliver and develop clinical pharmacy services to the clinical board
* Provide strategic leadership to deliver quality, safety and cost improvements across the clinical board
* Work closely with the clinical board and pharmacy leadership teams
* Manage the clinical board clinical pharmacy team
* Network regionally and nationally to develop and share best practice
* Provide regular teaching to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
* Contribute to clinical research and coordinate regular audits and quality improvement projects
* Work as a senior lead clinical pharmacist targeting patients most in need of clinical review
* Contribute to pharmacy operational duties, such as evening, weekend and bank holiday working
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to:
* Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical advice to clinical healthcare professionals
* Lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services
* Manage, and coordinate the activities of other pharmacy staff
* Promote the safe, rational, and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with clinical staff and healthcare managers
* Deliver learning to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
* Perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist
As a flexible working friendly organisation, speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement. Pharmacists wishing to work slightly reduced hours (>= 30 hours per week) would be welcomed to apply.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job responsibilities
* Interview Date: 5th November 2025
* 37 hours 30 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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Job Purpose
* To provide highly specialised pharmaceutical advice relating to use of medicines to senior medical and nursing staff.
* To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services.
* To manage other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
* To promote the safe, rational, and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with nursing and medical staff and healthcare managers.
* To coordinate the activities of clinical pharmacy staff
* To perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
* M Pharm (or equivalent) degree course and pre-registration
* Registered Pharmacist
* Clinical Diploma
* Clinical Masters
Knowledge & Experience
* 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
* One to One Communication
* Extensive post registration experience in hospital pharmacy, at Band 8a or above for some of these years
* Demonstrate they have been involved in the area of clinical audit
* Specialist knowledge of Perioperative & Critical Care and Cardiothoracic Services
* Awareness of the role and responsibilities of the pre-registration pharmacist tutor.
* Demonstrate they have undertaken a managerial role.
Skills & Abilities
* Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information.
* Influencing and negotiating skills
* Basic computer skills
* Lecturing skills
* Microsoft office
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.
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