Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Frailty

Merseywestlancs; Knowsley; Remote; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a highly motivated clinical pharmacist for a 12-month secondment to the Frailty Pharmacy team based at Whiston Hospital. The role covers frailty patients with a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care.

The post is maternity cover, with a 7-day service expectation, weekend rosters, late-night working and on-call duties, based at Whiston Hospital.

Qualifications

• Previous experience providing pharmaceutical care to acutely unwell patients is essential.
• You will either hold a non medical prescribing qualification or be working towards it.
• Evidence of collaboration with multidisciplinary clinical teams is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy services to frailty patients at Whiston site.
• Participate in a 7-day service with weekend working and on-call duties.
• Work within Frailty Pharmacy to develop and implement service improvements.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

NHS hospital experience

Non medical prescribing

Education

MPharm/Pharmacist degree

Job description

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Secondment: 12 months (Maternity Cover until 31.03.28) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 409-S8361044

Site Whiston and St Helens Hospitals Town Prescot Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third-party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to "name of trust" transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our Frailty Pharmacy team at Mersey and West Lancashire (MWL) Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The postholder will be based at Whiston Hospital and provide a clinical pharmacy service to frailty patients at the Whiston site.

This is a fixed term position to cover maternity leave working closely with the rest of the pharmacy team, medical and nursing colleagues providing services to the frailty directorate. All areas have well established multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care.

Previous experience of providing pharmaceutical care to acutely unwell patients is essential, you will either hold a non medical prescribing qualification or be working towards completion of the non medical prescribing qualification. You will be expected to be a team player with significant clinical experience, excellent interpersonal skills and attention to detail. You will be encouraged to develop and implement your own ideas within the role and help drive the pharmacy service forward under the guidance of the clinical service manager and principal clinical pharmacists.

Please note- it is the applicant’s responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made

Please note, interviews may include assessment tasks.

Main duties of the job

The department operates a 7 day service to the Trust and as part of this role you will be expected to participate in the rostered weekend working which is currently 1 in 5. Participation in the late night working and pharmacy on call will also be required. This role will be based at the Whiston Hospital site.

The Trust occupies two new state-of-the-art PFI hospitals, with the new Whiston Hospital having opened in April 2010, as well as Newton Hospital which has recently been integrated into the Trust’s service.

Whiston Hospital is the main site within this large, high-performing acute Trust covering a large suburban area between Liverpool and Warrington, including St Helens, Prescot and Huyton. St. Helens hospital provides diagnostic and clinic based services along with rehabilitation services with Newton providing a rehabilitation service. We manage in the region of 850 beds across all sites, have accredited teaching hospital status, and provide for most major specialties.

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population over 600,000 with a workforce over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care

Our Services

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre (St Helens Hospital)

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and wheelchair services in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre

Specialist Regional Services

We provide