Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Your paid hours will be 37.5 hours per week and shifts operate between 9am and 9pm and are subject to departmental rotas. Weekends are worked on a 1 in 6 basis. Weekend shifts involve working 7 hours on a Saturday or a Sunday between 9am and 6pm. Your paid weekly hours include one hour and ten minutes which contributes to a day at the weekend. Weekend working is subject to Agenda for Change pay enhancements. Rotas also include 1 or 2 Bank Holidays a year. Working patterns are subject to change to meet patient need. Staff must wear a uniform.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 408-25-696
- Employer
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Upton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Pharmacist
Band 8a
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Job overview
Ready for an exciting, demanding and fulfilling challenge that will make a difference to patient care and transform prescribing at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals?
As part of our Urgent and Emergency Care Update Programme, we have a unique opportunity for a senior pharmacist to lead the implementation of a new electronic prescribing solution within our Emergency Department.
The post presents an excellent opportunity to optimise all of your clinical expertise and to develop further leadership and specialist informatics skills. No previous informatics experience is needed, as full training will provided by our experienced clinical informatics team.
The role will be offered on a fixed term basis for 12 months.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will have the following responsibilities;
Lead the implementation of a new electronic prescribing system to support the transformation of clinical services in the emergency department. Collaborative working with multidisciplinary clinical and digital teams Ensuring the electronic prescribing system is developed in line with clinical digital safety standards. Provide training and onboarding support for pharmacy teams, prescribers, and administrative staff Collaborating with other organisations through participation in supplier user groups Developing prescribing reports Provision of clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department Championing the medicines optimisation and safety agenda Participating in clinical audit and practice research The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, organised person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills working effectively under pressure, both alone and as part of a team |
Working for our organisation
WUTH Pharmacy has been recognised as a high performer by NHSE and CQC. We deliver services to the acute hospital, primary care networks (PCN) and a range of external customers for aseptic services and via our wholesalers dealers authority. We are highly innovative department; recently winning, or shortlisted for national awards within pharmacy IT, surgery, antimicrobial stewardship and PCN. Our service is highly regarded by clinical teams, demonstrated by investment in a wide range of specialist roles embedded within MDTs. We are proud of our approach in maximising staff satisfaction and developing staff to reach their full potential. Staff satisfaction scores are high and we proactively seek feedback regularly to continue to improve. We have a strong focus on training and development opportunities via a range of qualifications and a proactive process for appraisal and personal development planning. |
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
· Lead the provision and development of an advanced level, highly specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines supply service to patients within an agreed specialty. The post holder will ensure that medicines use is high quality, safe, rational, cost effective, legal and accurate. They will be expected to work to the medicines optimisation standards for Wirral Hospital.
· Support the Lead Divisional Pharmacists and deputise in their absence when appropriate.
· Train and supervise less experienced pharmacists within the subspecialty.
Key Responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for:
The leadership and proactive development of specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within the agreed specialty.
· Providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within the agreed specialty and developing services in line with appropriate national standards.
· Providing expert and highly specialised pharmaceutical information and advice to medical staff, nursing staff, other healthcare professionals and patients, both within the Trust and externally as appropriate.
· Providing clinical training, guidance, support and supervision of junior pharmacists, pre-registration trainees, other Pharmacy staff and other Trust staff as required.
· Promoting the medicines optimisation agenda by leading specific audit and research projects in the agreed specialty and provide support to others.
· Monitoring expenditure within the agreed specialty against drugs budget, identifying and implementing cost saving initiatives.
Person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm for the role
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Good leadership skills
- Able to work alone and as a team member
- Able to use initiative
- Able to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement
- Able to deal with sensitive issues
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression
- Conscientious and reliable
- Methodical with good attention to detail
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good all round clinical knowledge and practical skills in other areas.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with other professionals, patients and carers
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills, able to work with all grades of staff
- Ability to interpret and relay complex and sensitive information
- Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to work to deadlines and meet set targets
- Integrate research evidence in everyday practice
- Computer literacy
- Up to date knowledge of current NHS policies, processes and structures
- Commitment to and demonstration of Continuing Professional Development
- Able to provide constructive feedback and process suggestions
Desirable criteria
- Financial awareness regarding the management of drug budgets
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
Essential criteria
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning.
- Extensive experience as a qualified pharmacist working within a range of clinical areas.
- Experience in delivering education and training of other staff.
- Experience of developing evidence based clinical guidelines or preparing written work for review at drug and therapeutics committee
- Undertaken a lead role in audit
- Evidence of post graduate learning or continual CPD
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescribing qualification and registration as an Independent Prescriber.
- Other post graduate qualifications ie MSc.
- Published pharmaceutical research in a peer reviewed journal
- Line management experience
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Current UK driving license.
- Ability to work weekends, evenings, bank holidays and on call to meet the needs of departmental service delivery
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
- Debra Jones
- Job title
- Pharmacy Business Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 604 7416
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