Advanced Clinical Pharmacist-Community Physical Health Services
Band 8a
Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 350-TWS7298374
Site Goodlass Road / V7 Town Liverpool Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/07/2025
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
As part of Mersey Cares Operational Transformation Programme an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide Medicines Management support to community specialist nursing teams.
The post holder will work as an advanced clinical pharmacist supporting with queries and medication reviews for Specialist Nursing Teams (such as the Frailty, Heart Failure, Community Palliative Care Teams) and the Urgent Community Response Team.
The post holder will complete medication reviews for patients to support them to get the best possible outcomes from their medicines. This will involve analysing and interpreting highly complex clinical situations and communicate effective medicines optimisation solutions. They will support an integrated approach to medicines optimisation, helping to ensure patients have access to the Medicines Optimisation support they require to improve patient outcomes. The post holder will work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
The postholder will provide specialist information, education, training and advice to members of the multi-disciplinary team to maximise pharmaceutical care.
You will receive clinical supervision and peer support from a large Medicines Management team within Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
· Support with queries and Domiciliary Medication Reviews for patients under review by the Urgent Community Response Team. This will also include supporting existing Medicines Management pharmacists and technicians already embedded within these teams.
· Developing and delivering a clinical pharmacy service within community physical health services to specialist nursing teams (such as the Frailty, Heart Failure and Community Palliative Care Team)
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.To conduct medication reviews in patients on high-risk medicines, complex medication issues and/or those with medication adherence issues or another medicines related issue. This may involve travelling to the patients’ normal place of residence to carry out a domiciliary assessment.
2.To involve patients and their carers in decisions about their medicines to jointly develop a medicines care plan to help patients to get the best from their medicines.
3.To manage complex medicines optimisation problems within the team and across the interface.
4.To identify and communicate recommendations from the medicines assessment to the patient’s own GP & multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as appropriate. Where appropriate discuss with the secondary care prescriber and pharmacy team, and community pharmacy.
5.To ensure agreed actions related to medicines are implemented and have appropriate follow up plans.
6.To participate in multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, providing expert pharmaceutical advice on complex medicines related issues.
7.To work with inpatient health professionals, secondary care, community health, primary care and social care services to optimise patient centred care in respect to medicines.
8.To work with hospital & community pharmacy team(s) to identify and develop solutions to medicines related issues and improve communication about medicines at the interface.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Master of Pharmacy Degree, or equivalent qualification
* Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
* Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or willingness to work towards
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
* Experience of working within an NHS organisation
* Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
* Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
* Experience of providing supervision
* Experience of providing education regarding medicines
* Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
* Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
* Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
* Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
* Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
* Experience of providing a pharmacy service within a primary care setting
* Experience of provision of medicines information services
* Experience of line management of staff
* Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Excellent organisational skills
* Ability to work both independently and as a team player
* Ability to work flexibly
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
* Self-motivated and able to use initiative
* Problem-solving skills
* Ability to analyse data
* Negotiating and influencing skills
* Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
* Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
* Professional manner
* Ability to travel between different sites
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Lucie Michaelson Job title Team Pharmacist Manager Intermediate Care Email address Lucie.Michaelson@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 473 0303
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