Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist plays a crucial role within our virtual wards, with a clinical focus on frailty, respiratory and general medicine, working collaboratively with acute providers across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment, providing pharmaceutical expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective patient care., We are looking for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our newly established Virtual Ward Pharmacy Team, working alongside the Principal Clinical Pharmacist to design, enhance and deliver high quality pharmacy services to patients receiving care on virtual wards. Each role works alongside the pharmacy and clinical teams at the acute trust(s) which deliver the virtual ward service they are allocated to and so we are now looking for an enthusiastic individual for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, based at the Southport site, however consideration will be given to allocation to one of the other sites. The sites include Countess of Chester, East Cheshire NHS Trust, Mersey and West Lancashire, Liverpool University Teaching Hospitals, Warrington and Halton Hospitals and Wirral University Teaching Hospitals. The role is on a fixed term basis for 6 months., The main duties of the role include:

Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards, ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines.

Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to optimize medicines management, including medicines reconciliation, prescribing, and monitoring.

Conduct comprehensive medication reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.

Support the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies related to pharmacy and medicines management for virtual wards.

Provide education and training to healthcare professionals, patients and carers on medicines-related topics.

Contribute to audit, research, and service improvement projects to enhance pharmaceutical care for patients on virtual wards.

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB covers a population of 2.7million people with services provided by 17 NHS trusts, 349 GP practices, 9 local authorities and 590 pharmacies.

This role is hosted by Warrington and Halton Hospitals pharmacy department on behalf of the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. The role will provide services to one or more of the Virtual Ward sites but will be part of a team of pharmacists working across all areas of the ICB. Virtual wards for respiratory, frailty and general medicine are operational across the region.

The Medicines Management team at C&M ICB and pharmacy team at Warrington and Halton Hospital are committed to the professional development of their staff. Full induction and training will be provided for staff working in this new area of practice, and we will support staff who wish to undertake additional training linked to their role.