Job summary
Are you looking for a long-term opportunity to grow and thrive in a specialist area of pharmacy?
We're excited to offer apermanent positionfor anAdvanced Clinical Pharmacist - Renalat the Royal Liverpool Hospital. This is a fantastic chance to become part of a well-established and expanding Renal Pharmacy Team, with ongoing opportunities to contribute to innovative work across Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) pathways.
You'll work alongside a highly supportive Consultant Nephrology team who are keen to see pharmacy play an even greater role in renal care. Our service is evolving, and we're looking for someone who's ready to help shape its future.
What we offer:
- A collaborative, experienced, and forward-thinking renal pharmacy team
- Opportunities to manage complex renal patients and develop specialist expertise
- Close integration with Nephrology and Transplant teams
- A Trust-wide remit to improve medicines use in patients with renal impairment
- A supportive environment for continuous learning and career development
Whether you're seeking to build on existing renal experience or step into a new specialist challenge, this role offers a rewarding career path with real impact.
Ready to make a difference?Join us and help deliver outstanding pharmaceutical care to renal patients across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
- Assist the Lead Pharmacist for Nephrology and Transplantation in developing pharmacy services and medicines management within the Trust's renal pharmacy programme.
- Provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to nephrology and transplant wards at theRoyal site.
- Assist the Lead in clinical training and supervision, relevant to renal pharmacy and medication optimisation for all professionals within the trust.
- Collaborate with nephrology consultants and renal specialists to ensure seamless care.
- Support the transplant immunosuppression prescribing clinic, ensuring safe and effective use of immunosuppressive therapies in renal transplant patients.
- Review dialysis patients to optimise medicines, ensuring appropriate prescribing and monitoring in line with renal function.
You will be highly collaborative, innovative, and looking for a new challenge. You will be passionate about optimising medicines and setting an example of excellent pharmaceutical care for renal patients.
About us
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 Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit theircareers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assist in the delivery of the Renal Pharmacy strategy at the Royal Liverpool site.
- Develop, manage, implement, and audit renal medicines policies and guidelines across the trust, ensuring safe and effective prescribing in patients with kidney disease.
- Supervise the training of pharmacy staff in renal medicine, including prescribing considerations in renal impairment, dialysis, and transplantation.
- Liaise with appropriate healthcare professionals within Primary Care Trusts to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface, and where necessary, develop relevant protocols for managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), dialysis, and post-transplant care.
- Collaborate with nephrology and transplant specialists to optimise patient care.
- Support the transplant immunosuppression prescribing clinic and medication reviews for dialysis patients, ensuring appropriate prescribing, monitoring, and patient education.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assist in the delivery of the Renal Pharmacy strategy at the Royal Liverpool site.
- Develop, manage, implement, and audit renal medicines policies and guidelines across the trust, ensuring safe and effective prescribing in patients with kidney disease.
- Supervise the training of pharmacy staff in renal medicine, including prescribing considerations in renal impairment, dialysis, and transplantation.
- Liaise with appropriate healthcare professionals within Primary Care Trusts to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface, and where necessary, develop relevant protocols for managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), dialysis, and post-transplant care.
- Collaborate with nephrology and transplant specialists to optimise patient care.
- Support the transplant immunosuppression prescribing clinic and medication reviews for dialysis patients, ensuring appropriate prescribing, monitoring, and patient education.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Ability to affect and manage change
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
- Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
- Antimicrobial Stewardship experience
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
- MRPharmS
Desirable
- Full NMP qualification
- MRPharmS
Other
Essential
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Ability to affect and manage change
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
- Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
- Antimicrobial Stewardship experience
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
- MRPharmS
Desirable
- Full NMP qualification
- MRPharmS
Other
Essential
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).
