Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated, forward-thinking clinical pharmacist with a passion for developing new ideas to join our frailty clinical pharmacy team and North Tyneside General Hospital Leadership team.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will lead on delivering a patient-focused service to medical patients with an emphasis on supporting frailty and elderly medicine specialties. They will also be part of the senior leadership team at North Tyneside General Hospital.
Key to this will be developing the role of the pharmacist prescriber, looking at innovative ways to improve medicines optimization for our acute and emergency patients. The postholder will be an integral part of the frailty team, working alongside pharmacy colleagues and clinicians to lead on the provision of pharmacy support.
Duties
- Provide leadership to both the acute medicine and emergency care specialties including input into the MDT
- Provide prescribing and clinical support to medical wards
- Support frailty and elderly care colleagues with advice and support, and in areas such as clinical guidelines, patient safety, and governance.
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Requirements
You will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. You will work closely with Clinicians and Nursing colleagues to support and promote the safe and effective use of medicines as well as ensuring the cost-effective use of resources. This will include attendance at relevant directorate forums.
Location
This post is based at North Tyneside General Hospital although there is an expectation that the postholder would work closely with colleagues at all sites to support continuing patient care. This will include trust-wide clinical commitments including weekend working and on-call.
About Us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, as well as the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed.
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We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. 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.
Contact
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Kate Smith
- Job title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Acute & Emergency Care
- Email address: kate.smith@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0191 6072211
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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