Overview
Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus oncall / late rota commitment/ weekend & bank holiday rota commitment)) Job ref 411-MED-25-7379037
Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Alder Hey Children Foundation Trust
Town Liverpool
Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pa
Salary period Yearly
Closing 16/09/2025 23:59
Band 7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to paediatric in-patients
Provide highly specialised paediatric drug therapy advice to patients/carers, medical and nursing staff and other healthcare professionals
Provide teaching to pharmacy, nursing and medical staff in specialist areas of clinical practice and supervises less experienced band 6 pharmacists & students.
Main duties of the job
To provide Clinical Pharmacy Services to paediatric patients and support advanced/lead pharmacists in the delivery of services to their patients.
Working for our organisation
We have an exciting opportunity to join our clinical pharmacist team. Pharmacist with no paediatric experience will be considered and training is provided in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to paediatric inpatients including in accordance with professional, national, departmental and Trust policies.
Undertake Medicines Reconciliation, medication review, formulation and review of pharmaceutical care plans and all other aspects of clinical and Near Patient Pharmacy
Advise on drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, therapeutic drug monitoring and compatibilities of drugs ensuring a holistic approach to pharmaceutical care when advising on dose changes. Record interventions and clinical advice in patient care plans or medical case notes.
Produce specialist drug therapy guidelines which impact on other disciplines using computer knowledge and keyboard skills
Participate in daily multidisciplinary ward rounds and offer pharmaceutical advice.
Actively contribute at specialist clinical patient discussion meetings by providing highly specialist pharmaceutical advice.
Guide and advise medical and nursing staff in the choice of therapy, supportive therapy, safe prescribing, and suitable methods of administration and formulation of drugs.
Provide and interpret highly specialist pharmaceutical information, in an area where potentially little or no information is available, to consultants, other medical and nursing staff and patients.
Liaise with senior medical and nursing staff, including Advanced Nurse Practitioners, to plan therapies in advance of treatment.
Work as a non-medical prescriber in a designated area of clinical practice or work towards this qualification.
Consider the information needs of children with specialist conditions and provide written and verbal information for patients and parents.
Facilitate the implementation of local and national clinical trials.
Assist in audit of specialist therapies.
Investigate, document and report medicines-related incidents or complaints exploring ways of minimising the risk of future re-occurrence.
Assist in developing shared-care packages, liaising with appropriate healthcare professionals within shared-care hospitals to ensure the efficient and effective communication of uniform information across the secondary / tertiary interface.
Support and develop the prescribing and administration of specialist therapies during day-case admissions and at home ensuring the pharmaceutical needs of patients are met and that there are the appropriate governance arrangements in place to ensure this treatment is managed safely and effectively.
Ensure the cost effective use of drugs in specialist conditions.
Communicate with consultants and other medical staff over prescription anomalies to ensure the safe administration of highly complex therapies.
Monitor patients for toxicity, documenting, reporting and advising medical staff on adverse effects and their management.
Participate in the evaluation of new drugs & supportive treatments to allow their safe introduction.
Complete new drug request submissions for specialist treatments with supporting evidence required by DTC or CDEG.
Take responsibility for the operation and development of specific specialist pharmacy services.
Deputise for band 8a advanced pharmacists
Provide final product check support to the senior pharmacist in the Aseptic Unit when required with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions
Provide clinical training in all aspects of prescribing, including highly specialist therapies. This includes providing training to pharmacy, nursing and medical personnel.
Regularly supervise and advise junior pharmacists & students. Tutor pharmacist on the clinical diploma if required.
Educate parents and patients on the safe use of medication using developed communication skills when dealing with children/parents with language difficulties.
Provide advice and information in distressing circumstances on PICU/HDU/Oncology when required.
Participate in Continuing Professional Development as per department policy and regulations of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Participate in rotas to provide pharmacy services at weekends, for late clinics & bank holidays.
Provide an out of hours paediatric on-call pharmacy service as outlined in the Medicines Management Code and Pharmacy On-call pathway
Participate in flexible hours of working between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
Person specification
Education and Training
* One year pre-registration training
* 4 year Master’s degree in pharmacy
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Clinical diploma or higher degree
* Accredited tutor for post graduate diploma
Experience
* Three years post registration experience leading to highly developed specialist knowledge
* Two years hospital pharmacy experience
* Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy to a broad range of specialities & ability to provide highly specialist advice
Knowledge
* Computer and IT skills
Skills
* Ability to analyse complex facts & apply judgement, including interpreting specialist medicines information
* Excellent organisational skills with an ability to prioritise own work and that of others effectively
* Ability to communicate complex drug related information & communicate with patients/parents
* Demonstrated word processing skills to input prescription information, produce reports and document medicines information enquiries
* Audit, project management or research skills
* Demonstrated skills for preparing injections & working in an aseptic environment
* Experience of training staff
Personal Attributes
* Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
* workload and plan work in advance to meet committee or clinician deadlines
* Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and motivate others
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at recruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk or call 0151 282 4599
Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application.
Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
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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.
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