Advanced Pharmacist - Neurosciences

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Liverpool is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist in Neurosciences to enhance their clinical pharmacy service. This role involves collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, providing advanced pharmaceutical care, and supervising training for pharmacists. Candidates should possess a master's degree in pharmacy and relevant clinical experience, playing a key role within a specialist healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a vocational master's degree in pharmacy.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent experiential learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to The Walton Centre.
• Participate in daily multidisciplinary ward rounds for neurosurgery.
• Assist in developing pharmacy services within The Walton Centre.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Self-motivating

Ability to affect change

Education

Vocational master's degree in pharmacy

Diploma in clinical pharmacy

Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Pharmacist - Neurosciences

The closing date is 17 July 2025

We are looking for a dynamic and forward thinking pharmacist with excellent clinical skills to join our senior clinical pharmacy team. You will work as part of the neurosciences pharmacy team to provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to The Walton Centre, a specialist Trust which provides tertiary neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services to a wide catchment area. The role includes participating in daily multidisciplinary ward rounds and in the well established pharmacist prescribing service for patients newly admitted on the morning of their elective neurosurgery. It also includes significant contribution to the clinical pharmacy service to the neurocritical care unit. You will also work with other clinical staff to contribute to contribute to various pharmacy and medicines management roles within The Walton Centre, including developing guidelines and policies and monitoring medicines usage and expenditure within the Trust.

The Pharmacy Department in LUHFT (Aintree site) delivers a full pharmacy service to The Walton Centre (based on the same site) under a service level agreement with The Walton Centre.

Applicants must be Pharmacists registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and have a postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent experiential learning along with experience working as a specialist pharmacist, and current (or imminent) registration as a prescriber.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• Assist The Walton Centre Lead Pharmacist in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within The Walton Centre.
• To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to The Walton Centre.
• Assist The Walton Centre Lead Pharmacist in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to The Walton Centre, for other Trust staff.
• 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 comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & 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 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 Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit theircareers page.

Job responsibilities

• To provide an advanced clinical service to The Walton Centre in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies.
• Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within The Walton Centre and to General Practitioners and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
• Participate in consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings relevant to the designated ward(s), including neurocritical care.
• Investigate any medicines related incidents or complaints from the designated clinical area and explore ways of minimising risk of future re-occurrence or risk to staff.
• Liaise with appropriate health care professionals within Primary Care Trusts to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface and where necessary develop shared care protocols.
• Support The Walton Centre Lead Pharmacist in the development of relevant business cases/plans for service developments relevant to the pharmacy service provided to The Walton Centre
• Provide clinical training for pharmacy undergraduates, pre-registration pharmacists, postgraduate pharmacists and technicians.
• Train and supervise band 6 and 7 rotational pharmacists in providing clinical pharmacy services within the designated directorate.
• Tutor pharmacists undertaking a postgraduate clinical diploma/M.Sc. in clinical pharmacy.
• Participate in the training of medical and nursing staff and other paramedical disciplines either within or external to the Trust as appropriate.
• Undertake individual appraisals for nominated pharmacists in the department.
• To report and deliver a full assessment of medicine costs both in use and horizon scanning for The Walton Centre.

For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Other

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
• Ability to affect and manage change

Knowledge

• Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills

Qualifications

• Vocational master's degree in pharmacy
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience
• Full NMP qualification or within 3 months of registering
• MRPharmS

Experience

• Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
• Experience in the delivery of pharmaceutical care to critical care patients
• Experience as a NMP

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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