Adv Spec Pharmacist - Project Lead (Palliative and End-of-Life Care)
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L69 3GF |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7192316/287-PPU-3-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to joinNHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS)and lead a short-term project focused on promoting the safer use medicines in palliative and end of life care
This post is hosted by the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group with opportunity to work remotely. This is a fixed term contract for six months at 8B 0.4WTE. Secondments will be considered.
We are looking for a pharmacist with substantial experience in palliative and end of life care and with experience of medication safety. You should have a passion for developing and sharing resources that support other healthcare professionals in their practice. You will have a broad and varied role working in collaboration with colleagues across the MUS team, other functions of SPS and key external stakeholders.You will apply your experience and knowledge to deliver high quality SPS website content consistent with gov.uk content design principles.You will build strong working networks across organisations to realise the aims of the SPS Medicines Use and Safety programme.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday, 3rd June 2025 by MS Teams.
The post holder will:
· Develop and subsequently deliver against a ‘safer use of palliative/end of life medicines’ project plan.
· Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network and subject matter experts, key challenges related to the safety of medicines in the end of life care pathway, including storage, prescribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring.
· Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network and specialist care networks, interventions and examples of good practice to improve the safe use of palliative / end of life medicines in all care settings.
· Contribute to the development, delivery and maintenance of quality assured medicines safety resources to support commissioners, organisations and healthcare professionals (resources may be website articles, webinars, podcasts, videos and workspace content on NHS Futures).
About SPS
The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work-related to buying, making and using medicines. The service provides leadership, instructive and informative specialist input and operational support to the sourcing, supply and use of medicines across the system.
Our strengths are borne out of connecting national expertise with policy teams and arm's length bodies to ensure consistency and high standards. The service supports both regional and local connections to ensure that the service 's outputs resonate with and support local NHS organisations which deliver care to patients. The key successes of SPS are through the development and delivery of their "Do Once and Share" methodology.
Medicines Use and Safety (MUS) team
Our Medicines Use and Safety (MUS) team are a well-respected team who work closely with policy makers, regulators and strategic leaders and engage with an extensive range of clinical networks to share experience and expertise. We interpret legislation and deliver practical guidance and support to NHS organisation and practitioners in providing safe patient care across the entire medicines pathway. Our resources support healthcare professionals to assess and improve medication safety culture, strategy and policy within the healthcare system.
• Delivers the specified project outcomes within agreed timescales.
• Appropriately liaising with stakeholders across England. This will include national subject matter experts (e.g. NHS England national clinical directors); senior colleagues in stakeholder organisations (regulatory, commissioning and providers); internal colleagues
across the SPS functions.
• Develops and maintains appropriate SPS resources to fulfil the project brief, ensuring accuracy of information which is up to date with current policy and practice and applies all governance requirements. Resources may be webinars, podcasts, videos, website articles and workspaces on NHS Futures.
• Contributes to uniting and integrating SPS resources to ensure all resources are shared across the country, thus maximising efficiency, and productivity.
• Exercises professional judgment and makes decisions in complex situations where information is partial or conflicting, or when ethical issues are involved. Provides expert guidance on aspects of content planning, maintenance, and management in specialist medicines related fields. Includes consideration of clinical governance implications, to frontline practitioners, managers and directors in provider and commissioner settings.
• Encourages and facilitates development, innovation and promotes new ways of working to deliver best practice in use of SPS resources.
• Supports integrated work and the delivery of the highest levels of quality, outcomes and productivity in services that involve medicines and the potential for medication related harms.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to joinNHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS)and lead a short-term project focused on promoting the safer use medicines in palliative and end of life care
This post is hosted by the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group with opportunity to work remotely. This is a fixed term contract for six months at 8B 0.4WTE. Secondments will be considered.
We are looking for a pharmacist with substantial experience in palliative and end of life care and with experience of medication safety. You should have a passion for developing and sharing resources that support other healthcare professionals in their practice. You will have a broad and varied role working in collaboration with colleagues across the MUS team, other functions of SPS and key external stakeholders.You will apply your experience and knowledge to deliver high quality SPS website content consistent with gov.uk content design principles.You will build strong working networks across organisations to realise the aims of the SPS Medicines Use and Safety programme.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday, 3rd June 2025 by MS Teams.
The post holder will:
· Develop and subsequently deliver against a ‘safer use of palliative/end of life medicines’ project plan.
· Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network and subject matter experts, key challenges related to the safety of medicines in the end of life care pathway, including storage, prescribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring.
· Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network and specialist care networks, interventions and examples of good practice to improve the safe use of palliative / end of life medicines in all care settings.
· Contribute to the development, delivery and maintenance of quality assured medicines safety resources to support commissioners, organisations and healthcare professionals (resources may be website articles, webinars, podcasts, videos and workspace content on NHS Futures).
About SPS
The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work-related to buying, making and using medicines. The service provides leadership, instructive and informative specialist input and operational support to the sourcing, supply and use of medicines across the system.
Our strengths are borne out of connecting national expertise with policy teams and arm's length bodies to ensure consistency and high standards. The service supports both regional and local connections to ensure that the service 's outputs resonate with and support local NHS organisations which deliver care to patients. The key successes of SPS are through the development and delivery of their "Do Once and Share" methodology.
Medicines Use and Safety (MUS) team
Our Medicines Use and Safety (MUS) team are a well-respected team who work closely with policy makers, regulators and strategic leaders and engage with an extensive range of clinical networks to share experience and expertise. We interpret legislation and deliver practical guidance and support to NHS organisation and practitioners in providing safe patient care across the entire medicines pathway. Our resources support healthcare professionals to assess and improve medication safety culture, strategy and policy within the healthcare system.
• Delivers the specified project outcomes within agreed timescales.
• Appropriately liaising with stakeholders across England. This will include national subject matter experts (e.g. NHS England national clinical directors); senior colleagues in stakeholder organisations (regulatory, commissioning and providers); internal colleagues
across the SPS functions.
• Develops and maintains appropriate SPS resources to fulfil the project brief, ensuring accuracy of information which is up to date with current policy and practice and applies all governance requirements. Resources may be webinars, podcasts, videos, website articles and workspaces on NHS Futures.
• Contributes to uniting and integrating SPS resources to ensure all resources are shared across the country, thus maximising efficiency, and productivity.
• Exercises professional judgment and makes decisions in complex situations where information is partial or conflicting, or when ethical issues are involved. Provides expert guidance on aspects of content planning, maintenance, and management in specialist medicines related fields. Includes consideration of clinical governance implications, to frontline practitioners, managers and directors in provider and commissioner settings.
• Encourages and facilitates development, innovation and promotes new ways of working to deliver best practice in use of SPS resources.
• Supports integrated work and the delivery of the highest levels of quality, outcomes and productivity in services that involve medicines and the potential for medication related harms.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025