Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute and Emergency Medicine

Are you passionate about acute medical care? Looking to work with a team of specialist healthcare professionals? LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This post is based on the Royal site of the Trust Emergency Floor (Acute and Emergency Medicine) We are looking for motivated and forward-thinking clinical pharmacists to work with our team on the Emergency Floor . We already have a well-established clinical pharmacy team on the Emergency Floor but we are keen to extend this service. We have fully integrated electronic systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients. The successful candidate will be responsible for the leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas., Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Acute and Emergency Medicine area To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to Emergency and Acute Medicine, for other departmental staff., To provide an advanced clinical service to the Emergency Floor in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within the Care Group and to General Practitioners and other staff within the Trust where appropriate. To act as an independent prescriber in accordance with the Trust's Non-Medical Prescribers policies and guidelines (once registered as a non-medical prescriber). Participate in the therapeutic drug monitoring service provided in accordance with departmental procedure; in particular gentamicin prescribing and monitoring.

• 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
Desirable criteria
• Ability to affect and manage change, Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
• Full NMP qualification (or within 3 months of being on the GPHC Register)
Desirable criteria
• MRPharmS
• UKCPA membership, Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Antimicrobial stewardship experience
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education and training.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
Desirable criteria
• Experience as a NMP, Computer literate, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.