Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking for the perfect opportunity to join a friendly, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking pharmacy team?
Are you committed to personal growth and ready to take on a challenging role that will expand your skills and knowledge?
Join Our Team and help Shape the Future of Healthcare in Liverpool!
You'll have the chance to work across our Hospitals: Aintree University Hospital, The Royal Liverpool Hospital, Broadgreen General Hospital, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, and Liverpool Women's Hospital.
Why Choose Us?
1. Exciting Career Opportunities: We're at the heart of transformative changes in healthcare across Cheshire and Merseyside, offering unparalleled opportunities to grow and develop in your profession.
2. Innovative Pharmacy Services: Our pharmacy service boasts a well-developed clinical directorate structure and an established mentoring system for junior staff working towards their diploma. We also have advanced technology to support clinical prioritisation.
3. Comprehensive Rotations: Gain diverse experience by rotating through a wide variety of general surgical and medical rotations. We offer specialist services including vascular, TPN, infectious diseases, HIV, transplant, severe asthma, hyperacute stroke, major trauma, neurology, neurosurgery, gynaecology, maternal medicine, and neonates.
4. Training Opportunities: Include postgraduate clinical pharmacy diploma, non-medical prescribing, and other clinical courses as you progress your career.
Applications are welcome for those due to register as a Pharmacist in Summer 2025.
Main duties of the job
Deliver proactive clinical pharmacy services to patients across the Trust. Work will be based mainly on the clinical wards, collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to review medication to ensure it's safe and effective.
Some of the time will be spent in the dispensary clinically checking prescriptions.
There will be some weekend commitments on a rota basis and also to provide an on-call service as part of the team.
To do this role, you need to be enthusiastic, motivated, have good communication skills, and be committed to improving patient care while enjoying teamwork.
This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in a supportive environment while contributing to groundbreaking healthcare advancements across the region. All team members participate in weekend clinical commitments on a rota basis and provide an on-call service as part of the team.
Start your journey with us today—apply now and be part of a team shaping the future of healthcare!
A Collaborative Approach for 2025
LUHFT is collaborating with Cheshire & Mersey Acute and Specialist Trusts in 2025 to recruit our junior pharmacists in this intake. This joint recruitment process has been agreed to streamline the process for candidates wishing to come and learn in our ICS and avoid the need for candidates to accept and later decline posts, which leaves vacancies that are subsequently more difficult to recruit to.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and 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 to 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.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services, including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. 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.
Job responsibilities
To provide a proactive clinically orientated pharmacy service, in accordance with professional, departmental, and Trust policies. Responsible for the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to a clinical specialty or patient group as agreed. Duties will include:
* Taking Medication histories from patients on admission
* Reviewing patients' medication to ensure safe and effective use
* Therapeutic level monitoring for specific medicines
* Education of patients about their medicinal therapy
* Participation in consultant ward rounds
* Facilitating the implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate
* Delivering clinical and, where appropriate, final dispensing checks within the systems for dispensing and issuing medication from the pharmacy, in accordance with the prevailing safe systems of work.
* Providing professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary as allocated.
* Participating in and supervising technical staff in patient counselling to outpatients, inpatients, and day-case patients.
* Providing counselling and information about the use of medicines to all grades of healthcare staff and patients.
* Providing Medicines Information services to healthcare professionals from within and outside the trust and to members of the general public.
* Undertaking, where appropriate, postgraduate qualifications in clinical pharmacy.
Please refer to the full job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Vocational master's degree in pharmacy
* Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
* Evidence of relevant and ongoing personal CPD
Experience
* Delivery of patient-oriented clinical pharmacy services
* Previous hospital experience
Knowledge
* General level knowledge of medical and surgical medicines issues
* Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
* Appreciation of pharmacoeconomic principles
Skills
* Able to effectively communicate with patients/clients
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to prioritise appropriately
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to work alone and as part of a team
* Good interpersonal skills
* Teaching/training/mentoring skills
Other
* Logical thought processes
* Ability to thrive in a changing environment
* Appropriately assertive
* Innovative thinking
* Integrity
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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Chief Pharmacist- Clinical Services
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