Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute and Emergency Medicine

Job overview

Are you passionate about acute medical care? Looking to work with a team of specialist healthcare professionals?

LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This post is based on the Royal site of the Trust Emergency Floor (Acute and Emergency Medicine)

We are looking for motivated and forward-thinking clinical pharmacists to work with our team on the Emergency Floor .

We already have a well-established clinical pharmacy team on the Emergency Floor but we are keen to extend this service. We have fully integrated electronic systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas.

Main duties of the job

Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Acute and Emergency Medicine area

To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas

Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to Emergency and Acute Medicine, for other departmental staff.

Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Emergency Floor

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide an advanced clinical service to the Emergency Floor in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies

Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within the Care Group 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 the therapeutic drug monitoring service provided in accordance with departmental procedure; in particular gentamicin prescribing and monitoring.

For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Skills

• 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

• Ability to affect and manage change

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
• Full NMP qualification (or within 3 months of being on the GPHC Register)

• MRPharmS
• UKCPA membership

Experience & Knowledge

• Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Antimicrobial Stewardship experience
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education

• Experience as a NMP

Other

• Computer literate

Knowledge

• Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills

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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

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.

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.

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).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

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.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.