Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Critical care Liverpool

Job summary

You will provide clinical expertise to your respective unit, supporting some of the most complex and high-acuity critically ill patients in the region, while offering clear direction, organisation, and strategic oversight to the wider team.

The RLH site hosts a wide range of highly specialised surgical services, while AUH is a designated Major Trauma Centre for the region, together offering exposure to clinical scenarios and units rarely seen elsewhere.

You will work with a dedicated group of pharmacists and technical staff on your site, ensuring the delivery of a consistent, high-quality, evidence-based pharmacy service, while working collaboratively across both sites.

Working closely with intensivists, anaesthetists, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to safe, innovative, and forward-thinking medicines optimisation for critically ill patients.

These roles require substantial hospital pharmacy experience, with essential experience in Critical Care. You will bring advanced clinical knowledge, strong team work ability, and a commitment to driving excellence.

2 vacancies available at the Aintree site and 1 vacancy available at the royal site

Royal site queries - Contact Siuman Tin

Aintree site queries - Contact Adam Smith

If you have a preference for site, please indicate this within your application form

Main duties of the job

• Deliver specialist pharmaceutical input during consultant-led ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Ensure safe, effective medicines optimisation for critically ill patients, including advanced clinical reviews and prescribing.
• Work as part of the Critical Care pharmacy team to ensure a responsive, high-quality service.
• Support, develop, and mentor pharmacists and MMTs within the specialty.
• Provide pharmacy input into both elective and emergency critical care admissions.
• Contribute to medicines-related risk reduction, incident investigation, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain and support adherence to critical care guidelines, protocols, and best practice standards.
• Monitor medicines expenditure and contribute to financial efficiency plans.
• Deliver specialist training for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and MDT colleagues.
• Support the development of trainees within the pharmacy workforce.
• Contribute to research, audit, and evidence generation within critical care pharmacy practice.

About us

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services incardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Details

Date posted: 27 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 287-DTC-157-26

Job locations: Royal Liverpool, Liverpool, L7 8XP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

To deliver as part of a team, the provision of a comprehensive, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical service to the Trust and its patients.

• Contribute and assist in the development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
• Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
• Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
• Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
• Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
• Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
• Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
• Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
• Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
• Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
• Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
• Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning.
• Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP)

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or equivalent professional body

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant hospital experience including working with a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of medicines optimisation, governance, formulary compliance or antimicrobial stewardship within a hospital setting
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
• Experience as an NMP in a hospital setting.

Desirable

• Supervision, mentoring or training of pharmacy staff, healthcare professionals or students.
• Analysing prescribing financial or service data

Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience relevant to hospital pharmacy practice, with the ability to develop and apply specialist knowledge within the designated specialty/service area.
• Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written communication skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Initiative-taking and able to motivate/inspire others
• Ability to empathise with patients and colleagues
• Computer literate including Microsoft Word, Office, and PowerPoint

Desirable

• Ability to effect and manage change
• Audit, Quality Improvement and/or service evaluation experience

Other

Essential

• Enthusiasm for the position
• Takes personal responsibility for professional behaviour and for contributing positively to team working and staff morale
• Ability to provide on-call services and be on site within an hour or remain on site when on call.

Desirable

• Demonstrable commitment to advanced clinical pharmacy practice and ongoing development within the designated specialty/service area

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).

Employer details

Employer name: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Royal Liverpool, Liverpool, L7 8XP, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead Divisional Pharmacist - Surgery

Siuman Tin

01517062000

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.