Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Primary and Acute Care

Fixed term 12 months or secondment opportunity for current Trust employee's

We are seeking an enthusiastic, patient-focused, independently motivated pharmacist to cover 12 months maternity within our Integrated Care Home team working across Northumberland, based with the Wansbeck hub.

We provide a proactive and collaborative, high quality medicines optimisation service for frail elderly patients in care homes , working closely with colleagues in health and social care across both the primary and secondary care sectors.

The role will provide an opportunity to undertake 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 be based at Wansbeck, covering the Blyth locality to support the Blyth/Central established team.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

For Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) , as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Working within professional boundaries to provide person-centred, evidence-based structured medication reviews for care home residents 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 medic

ines 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.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?

The Northumberland Integrated Care pharmacy team is well established and has been a very effective, welcoming and supportive team so come and join us.

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Harker Job title: Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Care Homes Email address: nicola.harker@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07876004032