Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Admissions

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead, develop and participate in specialist clinical pharmacy services within the Emergency admissions unit at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated senior clinical pharmacist to provide expert advice on medicines and ensure safe, effective and high quality care to patients within the fast-paced emergency admissions setting.

The successful candidate will work within the emergency admissions unit MDT, providing specialist clinical pharmacy advice to support the patient journey.

Key responsibilities include medicines reconciliation, prescribing, supporting administration of time critical medication and facilitating timely discharge.

You will work closely with the urgent and emergency care clinical pharmacist to deliver and evaluate a robust clinical pharmacy service across the Emergency Care Centre. You engage with key stakeholders to drive innovation and improve medicines optimisation and provide leadership and line management to pharmacy colleagues.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

To provide specialist clinical pharmacy input and maintain high standards of medicines management across the Emergency admissions unit.

To work closely as part of the MDT within the emergency admissions unit with a focus on providing prescribing support to the medical team. This will include following up medicines reconciliation discrepancies, prescribing acute medication and supporting rationalisation of medication.

Providing patient medication counselling and facilitating safe discharge to ensure patient flow.

Collaborate with the urgent and emergency care pharmacist in relation to service provision and service development within the Emergency Care Centre.

Support with development and updates of clinical guidelines, policies and SOPs.

As part of the team you will work closely alongside other pharmacy colleagues, providing leadership, clinical supervision and management.

Contribute to innovation in the urgent and emergency care department to look for opportunities for admission avoidance, medicines optimisation and improving transfer of care between hospital and community and front of house to back of house areas.

Work to deliver the 7 day clinical Pharmacy service by supporting the late night, on call and weekend rota.

Provide support to the Lead clinical Pharmacist with regards to medicines management, incident resolving, staff training and integration with the Emergency care senior team.

Engagement with key stakeholders e.g ward managers, matrons, chief matron, service line managers and clinical and safecare leads.