Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Critical Care & Digital Medicines
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Cwmni: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7308297/287-DSS-208-25 |
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A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you passionate about critical care and excited by the evolving field of clinical informatics? Do you want to be part of a multidisciplinary team of expert healthcare professionals, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes?
LUHFT has a team of over 120 pharmacists across three sites, delivering clinical pharmacy services to a wide range of specialties. This post involves working across both the Royal and Aintree Critical Care units, leading the optimisation of our recent implementation of a specialist Critical Care EPR with electronic prescribing to enhance patient safety and care.
This role offers a unique chance to contribute to a proactive, patient-centred service as part of a clinical informatics role supported by our Chief Clinical Information Officer, in close collaboration with our digital medicines and medicines safety teams.
Support the maintenance of the electronic prescribing system within the critical care units and work to optimise its use, ensuring it is safe, effective, and user-friendly for the entire multidisciplinary team.
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Critical Care Directorate
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Critical Care units.
Assist the Lead Pharmacists in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the staff within the department.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Critical Care Units.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
To deliver as part of a team, the provision of a comprehensive, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical service to the Trust and its patients.
• Responsible for the management and development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas including management of the digital medicines systems in critical care.
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
• Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
• Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
• Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
• Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
• Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
• Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
• Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
• Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
• Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
• Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
• Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Aug 2025
Are you passionate about critical care and excited by the evolving field of clinical informatics? Do you want to be part of a multidisciplinary team of expert healthcare professionals, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes?
LUHFT has a team of over 120 pharmacists across three sites, delivering clinical pharmacy services to a wide range of specialties. This post involves working across both the Royal and Aintree Critical Care units, leading the optimisation of our recent implementation of a specialist Critical Care EPR with electronic prescribing to enhance patient safety and care.
This role offers a unique chance to contribute to a proactive, patient-centred service as part of a clinical informatics role supported by our Chief Clinical Information Officer, in close collaboration with our digital medicines and medicines safety teams.
Support the maintenance of the electronic prescribing system within the critical care units and work to optimise its use, ensuring it is safe, effective, and user-friendly for the entire multidisciplinary team.
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Critical Care Directorate
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Critical Care units.
Assist the Lead Pharmacists in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the staff within the department.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Critical Care Units.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
To deliver as part of a team, the provision of a comprehensive, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical service to the Trust and its patients.
• Responsible for the management and development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas including management of the digital medicines systems in critical care.
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
• Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
• Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
• Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
• Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
• Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
• Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
• Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
• Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
• Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
• Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
• Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Aug 2025