Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 11 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7520398-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Longmoor House, Aintree Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/12/2025
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Physical Health
Band 8a
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to provide Medicines Management support to Longmoor House which is an integrated 69 bed intermediate care facility, and the specialist Brain Injuries Rehabilitation Unit. Both are located on the Aintree hospital site. This Band 8a role offers an exciting opportunity to lead, deliver and develop comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines supply services to the Trust’s inpatient physical health services, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, maximising patient pharmaceutical care, supporting safe transitions of care and improving patient outcomes. The post holder will be responsible for training and supervising other pharmacy staff members on rotation within inpatient physical health services.
Secondment opportunity available - discuss with line manager ahead of application
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead clinical pharmacy services within intermediate care, ensuring high standards of medicines management.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support discharge planning and reduce readmissions.
- Provide expert pharmaceutical advice and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.
- Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Support development and implementation of Longmoor House Near Patient dispensing model.
- Supervise and mentor junior pharmacy staff and trainees.
- Complete accurate and timely medicines reconciliation following admission or transfer of service users within the trust.
- Clinically check inpatient prescriptions, leave and discharge prescriptions to ensure the appropriate, safe, and legal supply of medicines, complying with national and local guidelines and Mersey Care Medicines Management Procedures.
- Develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within inpatient physical health services.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical supply services, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council and relevant legislation.
2. To act as the advanced clinical pharmacist for inpatient physical health, specifically Longmoor House and the specialist Brain Injury Rehabilitation unit, within the medicines management team.
3. To act as the trust’s point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within inpatient physical health services.
4. To be responsible for leading, delivering and developing comprehensive clinical pharmacy and supply services to the trust’s inpatient physical health services.
5. To ensure that effective medicines management practices are developed and carried out consistently within all inpatient physical health services within the trust, to promote medicines safety and reduce risk of harm from medications.
6. To develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within inpatient physical health services.
7. To facilitate the implementation of local and national guidelines relating to inpatient physical health services.
8. To contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to inpatient physical health services, the modification of existing policies and procedures, and their implementation.
9. To undertake clinics with direct patient contact, including medication reviews and home visits where appropriate.
10. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to specialist area of practice, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers or posters at conferences and workshops.
11. To represent the trust at external meetings in relation to specialist area of practice.
12. Where appropriate, to attend, contribute to and feed back from appropriate regional or national meetings and conferences in relation to inpatient physical health.
13. To liaise with and advise local or national commissioners with regard to medication and audit relating to inpatient physical health services.
14. To act as the pharmacist lead in aligning processes between the trust and the relevant local pharmaceutical and medical committees.
15. To support inpatient physical health services in liaison with external agencies, in relation to handling of medicines and pharmaceutical care, and also to support psychosocial holistic care plans for patients
Please refer to the job description for more information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics/Clinical Pharmacy, or willingness to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of the risks of polypharmacy in frail patients and the importance of in-depth holistic medication review to improve outcomes
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working within inpatient physical health services
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of high-risk medicines e.g., intravenous antibiotics, heparin and psychotropic medicines
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: – written – verbal – listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Desirable criteria
- Project management skills
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucie Michaelson
- Job title
- Team/Locality Pharmacist Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07502901676
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