Job summary
Are you looking for an opportunity to join a friendly and enthusiastic pharmacy team? Are you keen, committed and looking for a challenging role to develop and expand your skills and knowledge? Then why not come and join us at LUHFT. You will be based at either Aintree University Hospital or The Royal Liverpool Hospital with rotations to either Broadgreen Hospital or The Walton Centre.
The pharmacy service has a well-developed clinical directorate structure with an established mentoring system for junior staff. We're at the forefront of technological developments, as well as clinical pharmacy, with electronic prescribing and administration deployed across the hospital. This post consists of rotations across a wide variety of clinical areas including acute medicine, respiratory, cardiology, diabetes, general surgery, vascular, TPN, medicines information, care of the elderly, neurology and gastroenterology.
LUHFT is collaborating with Cheshire & Mersey Acute and Specialist Trusts in 2024 to recruit our junior pharmacists in this intake.This joint recruitment process has been agreed in an attempt to streamline the process for candidates wishing to come and learn in our ICS and avoid the need for candidates to accept and later decline posts which leaves vacancies which are subsequently more difficult to recruit to.
Main duties of the job
Applications are welcome from8th-21stJanuary 2024,andshortlisted candidateswill beinvited to interview in the week of 5th February 2024. We will be interviewing in Liverpool town centre close to the Central and Lime street train stations to reduce the time needed off work. Final details to be confirmed at selection. Where possible, if candidates want to be considered for more than one Trust, we will try to interview collectively but this may not be possible for all interviews. This collaborative effort will mean less time off work for interviews held on separate days.
Offers will be made on12th February 2024 and all Trusts involved have committed to giving candidates the weekend to consider any offers made.
Applications are welcomed from Hospital Trainee Pharmacists who will register in July/August as well as current registered pharmacists.
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Deliver proactive clinical pharmacy services to patients across the Trust. Work will be based mainly on the clinical wards working with the multidisciplinary team to review medication to ensure it's safe and effective.
Some of the time will be spent in the dispensary clinically checking prescriptions.
There will be some weekend commitments on a rota basis and also to provide an on call service as part of the team.
To do this role you need to be enthusiastic, motivated, have good communication skills and be committed to improving patient care and enjoy working as part of a team.
About us
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.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a proactive clinically orientated pharmacy service, in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policiesResponsible for the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to a clinical specialty or patient group as agreed. Duties will include;
- Taking Medication histories from patients on admission
- Review patients' medication to ensure safe and effective use
- Formulate individual patient pharmaceutical care plans
- Therapeutic level monitoring fort specific medicines
- Education of patients about their medicinal therapy
- Participation in consultant ward rounds
- Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate
- Challenging inappropriate prescribing
Deliver clinical & where appropriate, final dispensing checks within the systems for dispensing & issuing medication from the pharmacy, in accordance with the prevailing safe systems of work.
Provide professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary as allocated.
Participate in, and supervise technical staff in, patient counselling to outpatient, inpatients and day-case patients.
Provide counselling and information about the use of medicines to all grades of healthcare staff and patients
Provide Medicines Information services to health care professionals from within and outside the trust and to members of the general public
Undertake where appropriate, post graduate qualifications in clinical pharmacy
Please refer to the full job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a proactive clinically orientated pharmacy service, in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policiesResponsible for the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to a clinical specialty or patient group as agreed. Duties will include;
- Taking Medication histories from patients on admission
- Review patients' medication to ensure safe and effective use
- Formulate individual patient pharmaceutical care plans
- Therapeutic level monitoring fort specific medicines
- Education of patients about their medicinal therapy
- Participation in consultant ward rounds
- Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate
- Challenging inappropriate prescribing
Deliver clinical & where appropriate, final dispensing checks within the systems for dispensing & issuing medication from the pharmacy, in accordance with the prevailing safe systems of work.
Provide professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary as allocated.
Participate in, and supervise technical staff in, patient counselling to outpatient, inpatients and day-case patients.
Provide counselling and information about the use of medicines to all grades of healthcare staff and patients
Provide Medicines Information services to health care professionals from within and outside the trust and to members of the general public
Undertake where appropriate, post graduate qualifications in clinical pharmacy
Please refer to the full job description and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of relevant and on-going personal CPD
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of patient orientated clinical pharmacy services
Desirable
- Previous hospital experience
Knowledge
Essential
- General level knowledge of medical and surgical medicines issues
- Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
Desirable
- Appreciation of pharmacoeconomic principles
Skills
Essential
- Able to effectively communicate with patients/clients
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise appropriately
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Teaching/training/mentoring skills
Other
Essential
- Computer literate
- Logical thought processes
- Ability to thrive in a changing environment
- Appropriately assertive
- Innovative thinking
- Integrity
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of relevant and on-going personal CPD
Experience
Essential
- Delivery of patient orientated clinical pharmacy services
Desirable
- Previous hospital experience
Knowledge
Essential
- General level knowledge of medical and surgical medicines issues
- Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
Desirable
- Appreciation of pharmacoeconomic principles
Skills
Essential
- Able to effectively communicate with patients/clients
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise appropriately
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Teaching/training/mentoring skills
Other
Essential
- Computer literate
- Logical thought processes
- Ability to thrive in a changing environment
- Appropriately assertive
- Innovative thinking
- Integrity
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
