Job summary
We are looking for an exceptional individual with a passion for health economics, who can lead the medicines value programme enabled by our pharmacy services in Liverpool University Teaching Hospitals, Liverpool Women's Hospital and the Walton Centre Foundation Trust with a medicines expenditure exceeding £130. This new role is part of an exciting collaboration with Cheshire and Mersey Integrated Care Board.
The successful candidate should like working in a dynamic environment and have a strong clinical background to enhance the impact of our team across our services for the benefit of our patients.
They will inspire and give direction to an enthusiastic and committed team of pharmacy staff. They will need a strong understanding of financial flows to able to work closely as a team with the Lead Divisional, Medicines Management, Procurement Pharmacists and finance colleagues to deliver medicines optimisation across our secondary, tertiary and quaternary services.
Opportunities for research and credentialing will be supported.
Applicants should be a pharmacist registered with the GPhC. They should have extensive experience working within a range of specialities and will require excellent IT skills to support data analysis and manipulation. They will be self-motivated, organised and work effectively alone and as part of a team.
This post is full time (37.5 hours) but options for flexible working apply.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
- Lead, develop, manage, monitor, report and promote, at a highly specialist level, professional and operational aspects of the medicines value within the Trust and the wider Liverpool Health economy. Medicines value in this context means maximising value for money, cost effective prescribing and medicines management.
- Lead on aspects of policy development in the field of medicines value and will lead the medicines related audit of NICE guidelines.
- Manage, coach and develop other pharmacy staff across the Trust and deliver education to pharmacy, medical, nursing and other staff in medicines value and clinical specialty as required.
- Contribute to the strategic development and monitoring of the pharmacy services delivered at LUHFT where there is a particular emphasis on medicines value.
- Collaborate with partners in Cheshire and Merseyside to maximise medicines value and seek our new opportunities for collaboration.
- Provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to a named clinical specialty.
- Act as a deputy for the Associate Director of Pharmacy - when required.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the Pharmacy Team also provides services to the Walton Centre Foundation Trust and the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
The Trust serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the Northwest region and beyond.
This post also has the opportunity to work with Liverpool Womens' and the Walton Centre Foundation Trust as part of our collaborative pharmacy services provision
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full details including key responsibilities and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full details including key responsibilities and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- One year pre-registration training and experience, meeting the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's examination requirements
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
- Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a qualified pharmacist within a range of clinical areas, and significant experience within medicines management or a named clinical specialty
- Experience in management and supervision of other staff
- Experience of education and training of other staff
Desirable
- Published pharmaceutical research in a peer-reviewed journal
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Experience in a variety of clinical specialties
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of the procurement, distribution, stock control, dispensing, safe and effective usage, risk management and monitoring of pharmaceuticals (medicines management)
- Advanced knowledge of financial management and commissioning
- Advanced knowledge of implementation of medicines value at a strategic level
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with other professionals, patients and carers, including presenting
- Excellent written skills
- Appropriate questioning and influencing skills
- Ability to multitask, work to deadlines and meet set targets
- Computer literacy
- Ability to innovate, plan and manage the change process
- Good time management skills, with the ability to plan and organise own work and that of others
- Understanding of and ability to implement Trust priorities
- Awareness of research evidence and legislation pertaining to medicines in everyday practice
- Able to write concise reports and commentary on the clinical use of medicines
Desirable
- Commitment to and demonstration of Continuing Professional
- Financial awareness in relation to the management of budgets
Other
Essential
- Ability to work as per departmental weekend, evening and bank holiday rotas
- Satisfactory attendance record
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic with ability to motivate self and others
- Able to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement
- Conscientious and reliable
- Able to work alone and as a team member
- Enthusiasm for the position - positive and optimistic
- Methodical with good attention to detail
- Demonstrate experience in planning and implementing service developments
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression
- Leadership skills and capable supervisor
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- One year pre-registration training and experience, meeting the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's examination requirements
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
- Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a qualified pharmacist within a range of clinical areas, and significant experience within medicines management or a named clinical specialty
- Experience in management and supervision of other staff
- Experience of education and training of other staff
Desirable
- Published pharmaceutical research in a peer-reviewed journal
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Experience in a variety of clinical specialties
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of the procurement, distribution, stock control, dispensing, safe and effective usage, risk management and monitoring of pharmaceuticals (medicines management)
- Advanced knowledge of financial management and commissioning
- Advanced knowledge of implementation of medicines value at a strategic level
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with other professionals, patients and carers, including presenting
- Excellent written skills
- Appropriate questioning and influencing skills
- Ability to multitask, work to deadlines and meet set targets
- Computer literacy
- Ability to innovate, plan and manage the change process
- Good time management skills, with the ability to plan and organise own work and that of others
- Understanding of and ability to implement Trust priorities
- Awareness of research evidence and legislation pertaining to medicines in everyday practice
- Able to write concise reports and commentary on the clinical use of medicines
Desirable
- Commitment to and demonstration of Continuing Professional
- Financial awareness in relation to the management of budgets
Other
Essential
- Ability to work as per departmental weekend, evening and bank holiday rotas
- Satisfactory attendance record
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic with ability to motivate self and others
- Able to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement
- Conscientious and reliable
- Able to work alone and as a team member
- Enthusiasm for the position - positive and optimistic
- Methodical with good attention to detail
- Demonstrate experience in planning and implementing service developments
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression
- Leadership skills and capable supervisor
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
