Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Palliative Care | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 22 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Cwmni: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7661066/287-DTC-115-25 |
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We are excited to offer an excitingopportunity for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Palliative Careto join our expanding team at University Hospitals Liverpool (Aintree Site). This is a particularly exciting time to join us, as our palliative care pharmacy service is growing and leading several innovative projects across both primary and secondary care including virtual wards. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop specialist expertise in palliative care while playing a key role in service development and quality improvement.
Our vision is to deliver a Trust-wide palliative care pharmacy service, working collaboratively across directorates to ensure the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines in patients with eye conditions. Based at the Aintree site, the successful candidate will work closely with our consultants, specialist nurses, and multidisciplinary teams, gaining hands-on experience in managing complex palliative patients in both inpatient and virtual ward settings.
You’ll be part of a forward-thinking, supportive, and experienced pharmacy teamcommitted to delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care. This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated pharmacist seeking a new challenge in a dynamic specialty.
• Assist the Consultant Pharmacist- Palliative Care and Lead Divisional Pharmacist for Medicine (Aintree site) in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Palliative Care service.
• To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Palliative Care service (inpatients and virtual wards)
• Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist for Medicine (Aintree site) in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the Palliative Care service, for other departmental staff.
• Provide outpatient clinic patient review and support where applicable to your role.
• Provide Advanced Clinical Pharmacist support to palliative care virtual wards
• Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Palliative Care service.
• To work with the current Consultants Pharmacist in the Palliative Care service in delivering the key responsibilities.
• With support from the Lead Divisional and Clinical Pharmacists audit, monitor and develop medicines management within your speciality.
About You:
You will be collaborative, forward-thinking, and passionateabout delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care . You’ll bring innovation and leadership to the role, with a strong commitment to medicines optimisation and service improvementfor patients with complex conditions.
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.
• Assist in the delivery of thePharmacy Strategy, contributing to service development and innovation.
• Lead on the development, implementation, management, and audit of medicines policies and clinical guidelines across the Trust, ensuring safe and effective prescribing for patients with acute and chronic eye conditions.
• Supervise and support the training of pharmacy staff in pharmacotherapy, including prescribing considerations for conditions for patients requiring palliative care
• Liaise with healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care to ensure efficient use of medicines and resources, and where appropriate, develop shared care protocols for managing long-term eye conditions.
• Collaborate with consultants, multidisciplinary teams including specialist nurses to optimise pharmaceutical care and improve patient outcomes.
• Support specialist clinics including virtual wards, ensuring appropriate prescribing, monitoring, and patient education for therapies.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026