Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medical Education

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to enhance medical education and provide advanced pharmacy services. You will lead training programmes for medical students and support patient care through clinical pharmacy interventions. The ideal candidate will have a vocational master's degree in pharmacy, GPhC registration, and demonstrated experience in a clinical setting. This position is integral to improving prescribing practices and patient outcomes, situated in a collaborative healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacist.
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development.
• Relevant clinical experience at specialist pharmacist level.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver prescribing training programmes.
• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy services to designated wards.
• Support junior pharmacists through tutoring and appraisals.

Skills

Enthusiasm for the position

Ability to work on own initiative

Methodical with attention to detail

Ability to motivate/inspire others

Education

Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On Call and Weekend working) Job ref 287-DTC-75-25

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Town Liverpool Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2026 23:59

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medical Education

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you a passionate and forward-thinking pharmacist with a flair for education and training? This exciting opportunity combines clinical pharmacy expertise with a strong focus on medical education, based at the Royal Liverpool site of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).

We are seeking a dynamic Pharmacist to lead and deliver high-quality prescribing and therapeutics training programmes for medical students and junior doctors, while also providing advanced clinical pharmacy services to a designated ward or directorate. You’ll work closely with the Trust’s medical education leads and be part of a supportive, innovative pharmacy team that spans three hospital sites.

This role offers the chance to shape the future of prescribing education, contribute to multidisciplinary care, and make a real impact on patient outcomes. LUHFT supports over 120 pharmacists and offers integrated electronic prescribing systems and unique in‑house tools to help you deliver excellent care.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the development, management, and delivery of prescribing and therapeutics training programmes for undergraduate medical students and junior doctors.
• Collaborate with medical education leads, clinical tutors, and other stakeholders to ensure training meets educational and clinical needs.
• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to a designated ward/directorate, including medicines reconciliation, care planning, therapeutic drug monitoring, and patient education.
• Participate in consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings, offering specialist pharmaceutical advice.
• Support junior pharmacists through tutoring, appraisals, and postgraduate diploma supervision.
• Contribute to clinical audit, practice research, and implementation of evidence‑based protocols and guidelines.
• Deliver non‑medical prescribing services and assess the clinical and economic impact of medicines use.
• Liaise with primary care professionals to ensure continuity of care and develop shared care protocols where appropriate.
• Maintain compliance with legal, professional, and departmental standards, including acting as Responsible Pharmacist when required.

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

• Determine the prescribing and therapeutics training requirements for undergraduate medical students within the Trust in conjunction with the Clinical Sub‑Deans, Director of Medical Education and other Trust medical education pharmacists within the Merseyside deanery.
• Develop the training programme/syllabus for pharmacy and therapeutics to ensure the identified needs of the students are met and the requirements of the education providers and other stakeholders are fulfilled.
• Lead and co‑coordinate the delivery of the training syllabus, engaging other appropriate pharmacists and health professionals as required.
• Liaise with the postgraduate clinical tutor regarding input from pharmacy into the junior doctors teaching programme.
• Develop the pharmacy aspects of the training programme for junior doctors ensuring all the required elements are incorporated.
• Develop systems to evaluate the effectiveness of all pharmacy aspects of training to junior doctors and medical students.
• Tutor pharmacists undertaking a postgraduate clinical diploma/M.Sc. in clinical pharmacy.
• Undertake individual appraisals for junior pharmacists in the department.
• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies, including attending ward rounds, undertaking medicines reconciliation on admission, reviewing medication to ensure safe and effective use, prescribing patients’ regular medications on admission, assisting in the management of patients perioperatively, contributing to prescribing of discharge medication and completion of discharge summaries, formulating individual pharmaceutical care plans, reviewing and updating care plans, supporting good antimicrobial stewardship, therapeutic drug monitoring, educating patients about their drug therapy, developing evidence‑based treatment protocols, providing highly specialist pharmaceutical information, acting as an independent prescriber, and participating in daily consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Participate in the therapeutic drug monitoring service in accordance with departmental procedure.
• Undertake clinical audit and practice research within the Pharmacy Department.
• Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate.
• Record regularly clinical interventions and activities in line with departmental policy.
• Provide professional and legal clinical supervision and act as the designated Responsible Pharmacist in the dispensary as allocated.
• Prepare the weekly pharmacist dispensary cover rota in line with departmental policy.
• Investigate any medicines related incidents or complaints from the designated clinical area and explore ways of minimising risk of future recurrence or risk to staff.
• Liaise with appropriate health care professionals to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface and, where necessary, develop shared care protocols.
• Comply with the legal and other requirements related to the purchase, supply, use, safecustody and destruction of drugs within pharmacy and in all other areas of the hospital.
• Participate in Continuing Professional Development, as per department policy and national guidelines from the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience.
• MRPharmS.

Skills

• Enthusiasm for the position.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self‑motivated and able to motivate/inspire others.
• Methodical with attention to detail.
• Ability to affect and manage change.

Experience

• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education.
• Previous experience of providing education and training.
• Tutor for postgraduate qualifications or pre‑registration pharmacist tutor.
• Relevant post‑diploma clinical experience at specialist clinical pharmacist level.
• Experience as a non‑medical prescriber (NMP).

Other

Knowledge

• Well‑developed knowledge of education and training.

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