Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and forward thinking clinical pharmacist to work as a team and help lead our established clinical pharmacy team within the Department of Medicine for Older People.

We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing system along with unique in-house systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service.

Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist- Medicine in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Frailty Service and Department of Medicine for Older People (DMOP).

To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Frailty Service.

Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist-Medicine in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the Frailty Service.

Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Frailty Service.

To work with the current Advanced Specialist Pharmacist in Frailty and DMOP Services in delivering the key responsibilities.

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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To provide an advanced clinical service to the Frailty Service within the Division of Medicine in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies.

Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within the Directorate 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 Consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings relevant to the designated wards and or directorate

The Frailty Service at LUHFT is progressive and forward-thinking.

A recent expansion in the Aintree Frailty Service and improv

The Aintree Frailty Service is expanding! And we are looking to recruit someone who is passionate about the care of older patients to join our team.

The Aintree Frailty Service delivers front-door assessment to patients over the age of 65, presenting with frailty symptoms. Each patient receives a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment delivered by a multidisciplinary team, including pharmacy.

LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This post is based on the Aintree site of the Trust.