Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Surgery

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Liverpool Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £55,690 – £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/09/2025 23:59

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Surgery

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you passionate about surgical care and ready to take the next step in your pharmacy career? Do you want to work alongside a team of specialist healthcare professionals in a dynamic and supportive environment?

LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across three sites, delivering clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This exciting post is based at the Royal site, supporting the Surgical Division, which includes a wide range of complex surgical specialties.

We are seeking a motivated and forward-thinking Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding surgical pharmacy team. The Surgical Division is highly supportive of pharmacy input and recognises the critical role pharmacists play in optimising patient outcomes. With the increasing complexity of surgical procedures at the Royal site, there are excellent opportunities for professional growth and development within this area.

You will be responsible for the leadership and delivery of a high-quality, proactive, and patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to surgical wards. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective medicines use, contribute to service development, and support junior pharmacists and trainees.

We have fully integrated electronic systems to support the delivery of excellent clinical care and are committed to innovation and continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Assist the Lead Divisional Pharmacist for Surgery in the development, implementation, and evaluation of pharmacy services and medicines management across the surgical specialties.
• Provide a safe, effective, and advanced clinical pharmacy service to surgical wards, ensuring optimal use of medicines in line with best practice and national guidance.
• Support the Lead Divisional Pharmacist in delivering clinical training, supervision, and mentorship to junior pharmacists, pre-registration trainees, and other pharmacy staff within the surgical division.
• Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, protocols, and audits to improve patient safety and outcomes in surgical care.
• Provide non-medical prescribing services within the surgical division, working as an independent prescriber to manage and optimise patients’ medication regimens.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care throughout the surgical patient pathway, including pre-operative and post-operative care.
• Participate in service development initiatives and quality improvement projects to enhance the role of pharmacy within surgery.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues 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 for more than two million people in the North West.

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 elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. 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 bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Surgical Division, in line with professional standards, departmental procedures, and Trust policies.
• Deliver highly specialist pharmaceutical advice to medical, nursing, and allied health professionals within surgical specialties, and where appropriate, to General Practitioners and other healthcare staff across the Trust.
• Act as an independent prescriber, in accordance with the Trust’s Non-Medical Prescribing policies and guidelines, to support the optimisation of medicines use in surgical patients.
• Support the safe and effective use of high-risk medicines and participate in therapeutic drug monitoring services relevant to surgical care, including antimicrobials such as gentamicin, in line with departmental protocols.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols, and audits to improve medicines optimisation and patient safety within surgery.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care across the surgical patient pathway, including pre-operative assessment, intra-operative support, and post-operative recovery.
• Support the training and development of junior pharmacists, pre-registration trainees, and other pharmacy staff working within the surgical division.

Person specification

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
• Ability to affect and manage change

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
• MRPharmS
• Full NMP qualification

Experience

• Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
• Experience as a NMP

Other

Knowledge

• Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills

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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months of their 18th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, LGBTQ+, disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting and processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2 December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

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This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

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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.