Job summary
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 highly motivated forward thinking advanced clinical pharmacists to join us at LUHFT working across our hospital sites with clinical teams to drive value in medicines.
Main duties of the job
Assist the Clinical Divisional Lead Pharmacists and Medicines Value Team for the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the directorate.
Support the national agenda for switching patients to new and upcoming biosimilars.
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the directorate.
Assist the Divisional Lead Pharmacist in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the directorate, for other departmental staff.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to our 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.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assist the Divisional Lead Pharmacists and Medicines Value Team in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the directorate.
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the directorates within the Trust.
Assist in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the directorate, for other departmental staff.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to our 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.
Support the national agenda in helping create value within the organisation supporting biosimilar switches.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm or equivalent
- Post graduate clinical qualification
- Member of the GPhC
- Non Medical Prescribing (or within 3 months of being on the GPHC Register)
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- MSc
- MRPharmS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration hospital experience
- Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities
- Effective working within a multidisciplinary clinical team
- Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going personal CPD
Desirable criteria
- Acute Teaching Trust/Tertiary Referral Centre experience
- Leading medicine-related protocol development
- Leading and supervising audit or practice research projects
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced generalist knowledge of the clinical areas within the Medical and Surgical Division.
- Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
Desirable criteria
- Expert knowledge of the therapeutics and medicines regarding pain management and VTE
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Good computer skills including effective use of office applications including analytical software
- Logical thought processes
- Appreciation of pharmaco-economics
- Ability to critique and present complex or contentious clinical information in an impartial and balanced manner
- Ability to effectively prioritise workload and work under pressure
- Good organisational skills including ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team in a changing environment
- Ability to manage change using appropriate negotiating skills when faced with barriers to change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across the primary/secondary care interface
- Experience of preparing shared care protocols
- Experience of preparing patient group directions (PGDs)
Other
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal skills
- Diplomatic
- Innovative thinking
- Committed and with integrity
Desirable criteria
- Appropriately assertive
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colin Brennan
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist- Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 2218
- Additional information
Vicky Keers - Medicines Value Specialist Pharmacist
Tara Callagy- Medicines Value Specialist Pharmacist
0151 529 2218
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