Job summary
Passionate about perioperative medicine? Passionate about vascular surgery and looking after complex patients?
Please apply!
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 lead our established clinical pharmacy team within the Vascular Surgery Directorate.
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 Vascular Surgery.
Main duties of the job
Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist-Surgery in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the directorate of Vascular Surgery.
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the directorate of Vascular Surgery.
Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist-Surgery in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the directorate of Vascular Surgery.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to our surgical 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.
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.
Liverpool Vascular and Endovascular Service (LiVES) provides comprehensive care to patients with blood vessel disorders (diseases of the arteries, veins and lymphatics) in Merseyside, the North West and beyond.
Our LiVES Vascular service is delivered by a team of highly skilled and experienced consultants.
LiVES is one of the largest vascular services in the country and currently operates at Aintree University Hospital.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide an advanced clinical service to the directorate of Vascular Surgery within the division of surgery in 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
Skills
Essential
1. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
2. Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
3. Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
Desirable
4. Ability to affect and manage change
Qualifications
Essential
5. Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
6. Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
7. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
8. NMP Qualification (or registered as a NMP within 3 months with the GPHC)
Desirable
9. MRPharmS
10. UKCPA Member
Experience
Essential
11. Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
12. Antimicrobial stewardship experience
13. Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education and training.
Desirable
14. Experience as a NMP
Knowledge
Essential
15. Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
16. Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
Other
Essential
17. Computer literate