Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Respiratory / Education and Training
Job overview
This is an exciting post to work in education and training whilst also linking your clinical role with the medical speciality respiratory. You will need to be an enthusiastic pharmacist who is keen to educate and train your rotational and trainee pharmacists.
LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This post is based on the Aintree site of the Trust.
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and forward thinking clinical pharmacist to work as a team and help support our education and training lead pharmacist in delivering the highest care possible.
We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing system along with unique in-house systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the directorate of respiratory medicine.
**Previous applicants need not apply**
Main duties of the job
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist -Education and Training in the development of our current and future pharmacists and provide medicines management within the directorate of Respiratory Medicine.
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the directorate of respiratory medicine.
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist -Education and Training in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the Pharmacy department
Provide non-medical prescribing services to our respiratory patients.
Identify the clinical and economic impact of medicines use, develop and implement clinical guidelines, monitor drug expenditure and support the area to meet their clinical and financial targets.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Help support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist -Education and Training in delivering the high level training to our pharmacy department supporting where necessary.
To provide an advanced clinical service to the directorate of respiratory medicine within the division of medicine n accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies.
Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within the Directorate and to General Practitioners and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
To act as an independent prescriber in accordance with the Trust's Non-Medical Prescribers policies and guidelines (once registered as a non-medical prescriber)
Participate in Consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings relevant to the designated wards and or directorate,For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
- MRPharmS
Experience
Essential criteria- Relevant post diploma clinical experience at specialist clinical pharmacist level
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education and training.
- Previous experience of providing education and training within pharmacy
- Experience of coaching/mentoring pharmacy staff
- Tutor for postgraduate qualifications or pre-registration pharmacist tutor
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Well-developed knowledge of education and training in pharmacy
- Well-developed knowledge of trainee pharmacist development/training
- Good presentation skills
- Extensive knowledge of pharmacy audit
- Awareness of the requirements of pre-registration pharmacy technicians and apprentices
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
- Enthusiasm for the position
- Able to motivate and inspire others
- Methodical with attention to detail
- Ability to affect and manage change
Other
Essential criteria- Computer literate
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
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Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
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