Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Respiratory / Education and Training
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting post to work in education and training whilst also linking your clinical role with the medical specialty 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
1. 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.
2. To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the directorate of respiratory medicine.
3. Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Education and Training in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the Pharmacy department.
4. Provide non-medical prescribing services to our respiratory patients.
5. 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.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
1. Help support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Education and Training in delivering high-level training to our pharmacy department supporting where necessary.
2. To provide an advanced clinical service to the directorate of respiratory medicine within the division of medicine in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies.
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. Participate in Consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings relevant to the designated wards and or directorate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
* Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience.
* MRPharmS.
Experience
* 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
* Well-developed knowledge of education and training in pharmacy.
* Well-developed knowledge of trainee pharmacist development/training.
* Extensive knowledge of pharmacy audit.
* Awareness of the requirements of pre-registration pharmacy technicians and apprentices.
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.
* Enthusiasm for the position.
* Able to motivate and inspire others.
* Methodical with attention to detail.
* Ability to affect and manage change.
Other
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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