Job summary
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Rotational
Band 7
Job overview
Rotational Specialist pharmacist. Rotations through a range of different areas/specialties across Aintree Hospital and the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Main duties of the job
We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing system along with unique in-house systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients. There are dedicated rotations which include a variety of therapeutic areas designed to enhance involvement with directorate working; examples include acute and emergency admissions, cardiology, orthopaedics and critical care. There are also rotations to the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery. In addition, we also offer rotations through medicines safety, medicines information and clinical trials.
You will be supported by a well established team of Advanced Clinical Pharmacists giving you an ideal opportunity to gain further clinical skills and experience post diploma. Applicants must be pharmacists registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and have a postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent experiential learning. They should be self motivated, organised, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details:
- Along with relevant Advanced Clinical Pharmacists, provide a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to Aintree Hospital within a designated speciality for an agreed duration.
- Audit, monitor and develop medicines management within a designated speciality.
- Provide training and routine supervision for rotational band 6 pharmacists providing pharmacy services to the designated speciality.
- Assist the Assistant Clinical Director of Pharmacy, Clinical Services, in providing clinical training and supervision of other departmental staff.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic with ability to motivate self and others.
- Lead by example.
- Able to work alone and as a team member.
- Able to use initiative.
- Able to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement.
- Able to deal with sensitive issues
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, prioritising tasks as required
- Conscientious and reliable.
- Methodical with attention to detail.
- Ability to work as per departmental weekend, evening and bank holiday rotas.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and negotiation skills with other professionals, patients and carers, including verbal, written and electronic.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to work with all grades of staff.
- Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to work to deadlines and meet set targets.
- Ability to perform calculations to a high degree of accuracy.
- Computer literacy
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Pre-registration training and experience, meeting the GPhC examination requirements
- Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy and/or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Non-medical Prescribing Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as a qualified pharmacist within a range of clinical areas / demonstrable evidence of undertaking a role at rotational grade pharmacist level
- Evidence of relevant and on-going personal CPD
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering pharmacy services to a specialist area
- Published pharmaceutical research in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Acute/ tertiary Hospital experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up-to-date knowledge of current NHS policies, processes and structures including Connecting for Health
Desirable criteria
- Commitment to and demonstration of Continuing Professional Development.
- Teaching/training/mentoring skills.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wendy Peacock
- Job title
- Divisional Pharmacist for Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 2218
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