Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Aintree university Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/09/2025 23:59
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Critical Care & Digital Medicines
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you passionate about critical care and excited by the evolving field of clinical informatics? Do you want to be part of a multidisciplinary team of expert healthcare professionals, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes?
LUHFT has a team of over 120 pharmacists across three sites, delivering clinical pharmacy services to a wide range of specialties. This post involves working across both the Royal and Aintree Critical Care units, leading the optimisation of our recent implementation of a specialist Critical Care EPR with electronic prescribing to enhance patient safety and care.
This role offers a unique chance to contribute to a proactive, patient-centred service as part of a clinical informatics role supported by our Chief Clinical Information Officer, in close collaboration with our digital medicines and medicines safety teams.
Main duties of the job
Support the maintenance of the electronic prescribing system within the critical care units and work to optimise its use, ensuring it is safe, effective, and user-friendly for the entire multidisciplinary team.
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within theCritical Care Directorate
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to theCritical Care units.
Assist the Lead Pharmacists in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the staff within the department.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Critical Care Units.
Working for our organisation
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 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. TheRoyal 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver as part of a team, the provision of a comprehensive, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical service to the Trust and its patients.
* Responsible for the management and development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
* Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas including management of the digital medicines systems in critical care.
* Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
* Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
* Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
* Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
* Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
* Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
* Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
* Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
* Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
* Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
* Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
* Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
* MPharm or equivalent
* Registered with the GPhC
* Non- Medical prescribing Qualification
* MSc
Experience
* 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
* Acute Teaching Trust/Tertiary Referral Centre experience
* Leading medicine-related protocol development
* Leading medicine-related protocol development
* Clinical systems configuration experience
Knowledge
* Advanced generalist knowledge of the clinical areas within the Medical and Surgical Division.
* Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
* Expert knowledge of the therapeutics and medicines within critical care
* Knowledge of clinical systems configuration standards and quality assurance approach
Skills
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Good computer skills including effective use of office applications including analytical software
* Logical thought processes
* Appreciation of pharmacoeconomics
* 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
* Experience of working across the primary/secondary care interface
* Experience of preparing shared care protocols
* Experience of preparing patient group directions (PGDs)
Other
* Diplomatic, appropriately assertive
* Innovative thinking
* Committed and with integrity
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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Name Sarah Thompson Job title Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Email address Sarah.Thompson@liverpoolft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 529 2218 Additional information
Colin Brennan
Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services
0151 529 2218
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