Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent: 18.75 hrs/ week
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 411-MED-25-7161631
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Childrens NHS FT Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Pharmacist - Medicine Division
Band 8b
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has been generated to assist the associate chief pharmacist in the delivery of the clinical services to Alder Hey.
This is a new role within the trust making the clinical services more robust.
They will be accountable for
- The delivery, management and development of paediatric Pharmacy services within the division of medicine throughout the Trust in accordance with professional standards and Medicines Management Frameworks.
- Providing expert paediatric clinical pharmacy advice, undertaking risk management assessments and ensuring compliance with relevant medicines legislation and CQC standards.
- Leading and developing audit and research within the medicine division with regards pharmacy services
- Leading and managing the medical Pharmacy team
Main duties of the job
- To manage and develop the provision of a safe and effective paediatric pharmacy service to the division of medicine.
- To provide expert advice on paediatric drug therapy to pharmacy, nursing and medical staff across the division of medicine.
- To lead the medical Pharmacy Team, including pharmacists and technicians and ensure the provision of in-house specialist paediatric medicine training for all pharmacists and technicians relative to their needs
- To liaise with senior clinicians across Division of Medicine regarding safe medication practice and risk management
- To contribute to the development and ongoing improvement of the Division’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration system
- To develop, implement and monitor pharmaceutical standards of care, undertake audit and research within the Division of Medicine pharmacy service
- To deputise for associate Chief Pharmacist – Clinical services when needed
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication
- To represent Division of Medicine Pharmacy Services at relevant Trust
- To represent Alder Hey on the Regional Safety Subgroup and Northwest Pharmacy Forums.
- To regularly provide education and training to pharmacy, medical, nursing and other health careprofessionals using a variety of methods g. classroom teaching, small-group tutorials, lectures, one-to-one coaching.
Analytical skills
- To provide highly specialist paediatric pharmaceutical information and advice to medical, nursing staff and other staff within the Division of Medcine when there is a lack of evidence and experienced clinicaljudgement needs to be exercised
- To critically review medical literature and use this information to prepare clinical guidelines for use across the Division of Medicine.
- To communicate with the Pharmacy MSOs, wider Pharmacy team, and the Senior Pharmacy Leadership Team; to provide detailed analysis of medication errors, potential risks and solutions and report to the relevant departmental group(s) as
- To provide highly specialized clinical pharmacy advice across the Division of Medicine
- To provide a ‘consultant’ pharmacist role for other pharmacists, medical and nursing staff on drug use in Division of medicine services both within and external to the Trust
- To provide expert paediatric pharmaceutical advice to the Medicines Management and Optimisation Committee
- To contribute to updates of the Trust Medicines Management
Planning and organising skills
- To lead the Pharmacy Service within the Division of Medicine, acting as role model, teacher and trainer.
- To identify, through the business planning cycle, new service developments within the Division of Medicine Pharmacy Service.
- Implement and monitor any such developments, as
Physical skills
- To have good keyboard skills
Responsibility for patient/client care
- To provide and manage a highly specialized paediatric Pharmacy Service to the Division of Medicine in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies. This will include:
- taking drug histories on admission for selected patients
- optimising medication to ensure safe and effective use for individual patients
- formulation of individual pharmaceutical care plans
- review and update of care plans depending on response, results of investigations and adverse effects
- therapeutic drug level monitoring for specific drugs
- educating patients and parents about their drug therapy
- participating and providing advice to multi-disciplinary meetings
- developing evidence-based treatment protocols
- facilitating implementation of local and national guidelines
- providing advice on adverse drug reactions, drug administration and formulation
- transferring relevant information to other care providers (e.g. community pharmacists)
- To provide highly specialist paediatric pharmaceutical information and advice to medical, nursing staff and other staff within the Division of medicine when there is a lack of evidence and experienced clinicaljudgement needs to be exercised
- To regularly provide a highly specialized Pharmacy Service to the medical inpatient wards
- To provide a a clinical pharmacy service within the inpatient and outpatient dispensaries when required
Responsibility for policy/service development
- To be a member of the Pharmacy Senior Leadership
- In the absence of the Chief Pharmacist and Associate Chief Pharmacist deputise in their role as required
- To support and assist in the development of the department business plan
- To plan and develop Pharmacy Services throughout the Division and Trust, coordinate clinical pharmacistactivity and audit the clinical service against agreed standards
- Responsible for development and implementation of paediatric clinical pharmacy standards and procedures to ensure safe and effective use of medicines throughout the trust.
Responsibility for financial and physical resources
- To review and provide information on drug utilization and provide advice on prescribing patterns to the Associate Chief Pharmacist and Division of medicine management team.
- To be an authorized financial signatory for the pharmacy department for up to
£50,000
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Line management responsibility for Division of Medicine Pharmacy staff
- To carry out recruitment interviews for staff within the department including chairing interview panels
- To undertake individual appraisals and personal development planning for advanced and specialist clinical pharmacists
- To liaise with other Clinical Pharmacy Managers, both locally and nationally, to improve the delivery of Pharmacy Services
- To monitor clinical pharmacist activity and co-ordinate peer review and follow
- To develop and provide a comprehensive in-house clinical pharmacy training programme for divisional pharmacists.
- To provide clinical pharmacy training for pharmacy under-graduates, pre- registration pharmacists, post-graduate pharmacists and technicians.
- To act as tutor to pre-registration pharmacists, clinical technicians and pharmacists undertaking postgraduate diplomas in clinical pharmacy.
- To provide expert paediatric drug related education and training to medical, nursing and other health care professionals at undergraduate and post graduate level within or external to the Trust.
- To oversee and provide induction training for Junior Doctors on Medication Safety and PaediatricPrescribing in relation to Pharmacy Services with in the divison
Responsibility for information resources
- To accurately input information into the Trust’s EPMA, Pharmacy drug management and Medicines Information systems
Responsibility for research and development
- To coordinate and supervise research projects for undergraduate pharmacy students, pre-registration and post-graduate pharmacists within the division of medicine
- To participate in practice research within the division of medicine. This includes identifying areas for research, undertaking own research, acting as a research mentor for students, implementing research findings and promoting publication of audit and research findings locally or nationally
Additional Responsibilities
- To participate in continuing professional development as per department policy and national guidelines from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and General Pharmaceutical Council.
- To undertake specific duties agreed with the Chief Pharmacist and associate chief pharmacist in line with the grade and scope of the post.
Contracted hours per week to be worked flexibly between the core hours of 8:00am and 6;00pm Monday to Friday, or part time as agreed, with commitment to Bank Holiday, late nights, and weekend working (Saturdays and Sundays) as required
7-day service
Alder Hey currently operates a 7-day service. The pattern of working in all units may be subject to change.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- pre-registration training and experience
- Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Masters Degree in Clinical Pharmacy
- Member of NPPG
- Training or Teaching Qualification
- Leadership Training
Experience of...
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience including experience working in a clinical speciality
- Advanced clinical knowledge of pharmaceutical care of paediatric patients with at least 2 years in paediatric pharmacy
- Experienced Pre registration and/or diploma pharmacist tutor
- Line management or supervisory experience
- Previous pharmacy teaching experience
- Previous experience of induction training for new clinical staff
- Risk Management and promotion of the Medication Safety agenda
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the business planning cycle
- Experience of working with EPMA system(s)
Knowledge of
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the place of the clinical pharmacist in the context of the NHS
- Demonstrated awareness of, and a commitment to, the Clinical Governance Agenda
skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Demonstrable ability to lead a clinical team
- Demonstrated ability to work proactively on own initiative and as part of a team
- Demonstrated ability to prepare reports
- Demonstrated ability to make decisions and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to affect and manage change
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate a positive outcome with senior pharmacy and medical staff
- Demonstrated skills in identifying and meeting clinical pharmacists’ training needs
- Demonstrated ability to perform and supervise audit and research projects
- Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development/education of self and others
- Demonstrated ability to teach junior pharmacists the delivery of paediatric pharmaceutical care
- Ability to use research findings to develop clinical services/patient care
- Demonstrated ability to undertake appraisal, objective setting and reviewing performance objectives
- Pharmacy computer and IT skills
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Self-motivating with a drive to develop clinical pharmacy services and to motivate/inspire others
Desirable criteria
- Published pharmaceutical research in peer reviewed journals
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
- Andrew Lilley
- Job title
- Associate Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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