Rotational Pharmacist inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED TUE 10 DEC 2024

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, The Walton Centre or Liverpool Womens.

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 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, gynaecology, maternity and gastroenterology.

Applications are welcomed from Hospital Trainee Pharmacists who will register in July/August as well as current registered pharmacists.

Before applying, please check you can answer yes to the following questions -

1. You are or will be a registered Pharmacist in the UK by August 2025
2. If shortlisted for interview you will attend your designated time
3. You genuinely wish to work at LUHFT and if offered a position will accept

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

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