Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Frailty: Sponsorship Available

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our Frailty Pharmacy team at Mersey and West Lancashire (MWL) Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The postholder will be based at Whiston Hospital and provide a clinical pharmacy service to frailty patients at the Whiston site.

This is a fixed term position to cover maternity leave working closely with the rest of the pharmacy team, medical and nursing colleagues providing services to the frailty directorate. All areas have well established multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care.

Previous experience of providing pharmaceutical care to acutely unwell patients is essential, you will either hold a non medical prescribing qualification or be working towards completion of the non medical prescribing qualification. You will be expected to be a team player with significant clinical experience, excellent interpersonal skills and attention to detail. You will be encouraged to develop and implement your own ideas within the role and help drive the pharmacy service forward under the guidance of the clinical service manager and principal clinical pharmacists.

Please note- it is the applicant’s responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made

Please note, interviews may include assessment tasks.

Main duties of the job

The department operates a 7 day service to the Trust and as part of this role you will be expected to participate in the rostered weekend working which is currently 1 in 5. Participation in the late night working and pharmacy on call will also be required. This role will be based at the Whiston Hospital site.

The Trust occupies two new state-of-the-art PFI hospitals, with the new Whiston Hospital having opened in April 2010, as well as Newton Hospital which has recently been integrated into the Trust’s service.

Whiston Hospital is the main site within this large, high-performing acute Trust covering a large suburban area between Liverpool and Warrington, including St Helens, Prescot and Huyton. St. Helens hospital provides diagnostic and clinic based services along with rehabilitation services with Newton providing a rehabilitation service. We manage in the region of 850 beds across all sites, have accredited teaching hospital status, and provide for most major specialties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Vocational master’s degree in pharmacy
  • Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
  • 1 Year pre-registration training
  • Membership of General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Non-Medical prescribing qualification or working towards
  • Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development/education

Desirable

  • Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society(RPS)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate extensive experience of providing clinical pharmacy services to multiple specialities within an acute hospital
  • In depth clinical Knowledge and experience of Management of patients within the specified department
  • Experience of working in a busy dispensary environment
  • Experience of drug reporting and financial management to directorates
  • Demonstrable experience of clinical audit and practice research

Desirable

  • Leading and supervising audit or practice research projects
  • Experience in using the Pharmacy Computer System
  • Experience of electronic prescribing

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
  • Ability to work alone or as part of a team in a challenging environment
  • Good organisational skills including ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work under pressure

Our Values

Essential

  • We are Kind
  • We are Open
  • We are Inclusive

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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