Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

We are recruiting to a key strategic leadership role within the CNTW Pharmacy Department and are seeking a pharmacist with strong leadership skills to drive and deliver innovative services across the Morpeth/Northumberland area (North Locality).

This is a rare opportunity to join a forward-thinking team and lead services across the Pharmacy Department, wider Trust, and local system. The successful candidate will be an effective communicator with strong listening skills and the ability to build relationships and lead a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. You will provide proactive pharmaceutical support to clinicians, managers, patients, and carers.

Our pharmacy team delivers medicines optimisation and clinical pharmacy services across all mental health, learning disability, and neuro-rehabilitation inpatient units, as well as to community mental health, crisis, liaison, and specialist teams. Pharmacists are highly valued members of the multi-disciplinary team, and many are independent prescribers working in a variety of clinical areas.

The CNTW Pharmacy Service is well regarded, with a strong reputation for delivering safe, high-quality care. We are an award-winning team recognised by the Care Quality Commission, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Health Services Journal. Our innovative, progressive service model includes medicines supply, clinical services, and governance functions.

Main duties of the job

• Provide operational and clinical leadership and development of the clinical pharmacy services to a nominated Locality Care Group within the Trust ensuring they are safe, effective, responsive and efficient
• Provide day to day management of the clinical pharmacy team within your locality
• Lead and provide subject expert input into a Locality Care Group and associated Clinical Business Units (CBUs) regarding clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation 
• Provide leadership, management, support and guidance to clinical pharmacy staff working within a locality
• Where appropriate, contribute to discussions involving external stakeholders regarding medicine use within a locality

Our Medicines Optimisation forward plan has recently been approved by the Trust, setting the course for our further service and workforce development over the next few years. You will lead on the delivery of this plan within the North Locality. Previous experience in mental health is not essential but an awareness of current issues within this arena would be expected.

Our Pharmacy department is open Monday-Friday 8:30-17:00. An emergency duty pharmacist is available outside of the opening hours as well as over the weekend. This role will require the postholder to complete emergency duty work on a rota basis.