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Lead Pharmacist for Perioperative Medicine and Theatres LUHFT

Job details
Posting date: 28 March 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 April 2024
Location: Liverpool, L7 8YE
Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6147323/287-DSS-222-24

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Summary

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you a passionate pharmacist seeking to become a consultant leading perioperative and pre op care across the largest tertiary teaching hospital in Merseyside?

Do you have strong clinical skills and the ability to influence the multidisciplinary team to develop services?

If you are this post is for you.

The postholder will shape pharmacy services for elective patients across Liverpool. Based in preoperative and same day elective surgical admission areas on the Royal Liverpool site they will also build the service across our multiple care groups and interfaces to optimise care for patients undergoing planned procedures. The Pharmacy Service operates across the Aintree University, Broadgreen General, Liverpool Dental, Royal Liverpool University, Liverpool Women’s and Walton Centre Foundation Trust Hospitals and has strong links with our universities with opportunities for research to inform medicines and pharmacy practice. Working with our multidisciplinary team we aim to standardise care and limit unwarranted variation for the population we serve.

Lead across sites and ensure delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the preoperative and same day elective surgical admission areas.

Provide clinical training and supervision to the multidisciplinary team relevant to preoperative care.

Identify the clinical and economic impact of medicines use, develop and implement clinical guidelines, monitor drug expenditure and support the area to meet their clinical and financial targets.

Assist the Clinical Services Lead and the Divisional Surgical Leads in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Surgical directorate.

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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To provide and lead on the strategic direction and implementation of pharmacy services to our preoperative and theatre services across all sites in LUHFT

To develop, manage, implement and evaluate pharmacy team services to the Directorates of Theatres and Pre operative speciality.

Supervises the training of Pharmacy staff as needed.

Direct line management of pharmacists within pre op and peri op on a rotational or substantive position

Lead to the development, harmonisation and implementation of clinical guidelines and protocols across the organisation in the theatre and pre op setting.

Develop links with Higher Educational Institutes to instigate and improve pre op and peri op management in the curriculum.

Participate in clinical audits and research activities to contribute to the advancement of pharmacy services within peri op and pre op.

Liaise with appropriate health care professionals within Primary Care Trusts to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface and where necessary develop relevant protocols.


This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024

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