Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - HIV and Sexual Health

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a lead specialist HIV and Sexual Health pharmacist. We are looking recruit an experienced pharmacist with a keen interest in antiretroviral medicine and sexual health clinical pharmacy to become an integral part of our well established multidisciplinary team.

The successful applicant will take lead responsibility to support and implement quality-driven Sexual Health services alongside our lead consultant and specialist nurses. This will ensure antiretrovirals and antimicrobials and are used in a safe, effective, prudent, patient-centred and efficient manner., The post holder will promote safe and cost-effective antiretroviral prescribing across the Trust in collaboration with the consultant and lead nurse in sexual health. You will lead in drug usage analysis, identification of budget pressures arising from new products, co-ordination of projects and audits and the development and maintenance of guidelines, policies and protocols relating to HIV and sexual health treatment. You will have significant input into the choice of therapy prescribed for people with HIV based upon their comorbidities and response to treatment, and prescribing of appropriate treatment.

In addition to supporting our HIV and sexual health service, the post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy service to our acute medical wards.

The Trust is currently undergoing the implementation of EPMA and the post-holder will have a significant input into improved prescribing and therapeutic drug monitoring using electronic systems.

The post holder will benefit from significant training and support of their knowledge in HIV and sexual health medicine from the previous post holder.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme