Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Lipid Management and Secondary Prevention

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join a nationally acclaimed Secondary Prevention Service for the patients in Gateshead. This is an innovative service commenced in September 2023 that is pivotal to supporting the national agenda of cardiovascular disease prevention and reducing premature deaths from CVD. The Gateshead Secondary Prevention Service has won 2 prestigious Health Service Journal awards (Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year 2025; and Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS 2026) and was also winner of the "Outstanding NHS Industry Collaboration" award at the regional Bright Ideas in Healthcare Awards 2024., The successful applicant will work closely as part of the established Secondary Prevention MDT to review patient referrals into the service. Supported by a team of senior medical consultants from relevant specialities, they will then initiate and monitor patients on guideline-directed medical therapies to support achievement of cardiovascular risk factor targets.

As part of the team, you will work closely alongside the cardiology, endocrinology, stroke, renal and vascular surgical teams at Gateshead to provide patient-centered care and ensure optimisation of therapies.

You will share progress of the project with senior pharmacy colleagues, service line manager for medicine and the key stakeholders of cardiology, endocrinology and stroke teams. There is also the opportunity for participating in a regional lipid network to share ideas and experiences.

A self-starter with strong communication skills, passion for improving patient care, and an interest in audit and research who will maintain our commitment to the trust's core values would be highly encouraged to join our team who have had work widely presented and are steadily gaining recognition for delivering a high standard of innovative, holistic patient care.

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and highly skilled clinical pharmacist, with a prescribing qualification and a keen interest in working in lipid management, secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health. Under guidance and mentorship of the consultants leading the service, the post holder will provide specialist clinical pharmacist input and contribute towards existing longitudinal data collection on patient benefit and outcomes.

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 acronymICORE; 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' programmebalancegateshead.comto cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.