Lead Pharmacist for Acute and Emergency Medicine

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Job summary

A major NHS trust in Liverpool seeks a Lead Pharmacist for Acute and Emergency Medicine. This role involves leading a clinical pharmacy service in a new hospital environment, managing a dedicated team, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Ideal candidates will have a relevant pharmacy degree, patient management experience, and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £64,455 to £74,896 per annum with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• 1 year pre-registration training and experience.
• Relevant post diploma clinical experience at advanced clinical pharmacist level.
• Experience in senior management and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide clinical expertise in pharmacy services delivery.
• Manage the Emergency floor pharmacy team on a daily basis.
• Ensure good medicines management delivery for all Emergency floor patients.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of clinical pharmacy

Ability to motivate/inspire others

Education

Vocational masters degree in pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site RLH Town Liverpool Salary £64,455 - £74,896 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/12/2025 23:59

Lead Pharmacist for Acute and Emergency Medicine

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacist to join our Emergency Floor team at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, covering the Emergency Department (ED) and Acute Medical Unit (AMU). This role is ideal for an experienced pharmacist who wants to develop or enhance leadership skills while managing a dedicated team of Pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians (MMTs).

The Acute and Emergency Medicine service at the Royal Liverpool site is based in a brand-new hospital and includes the busiest A&E in Merseyside and one of the largest Acute Medical Assessment Units in the country. Working closely with clinicians, we have built a strong pharmacy team delivering a seven-day service to support patient care and improve outcomes.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of delivering high-quality services and leading people effectively. Experience with hospital patients is essential, although previous work in acute or emergency care is not required. You will be collaborative, innovative, and passionate about setting the highest standards of care for patients.

If you are ready for a new challenge and want to make a real impact in emergency medicine, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Lead and provide clinical expertise in the delivery and development of pharmacy services to the Directorate of Acute and Emergency Medicine and developing an exemplary clinical emergency floor pharmacy service.

Manage the Emergency floor pharmacy team on the Royal site on a daily basis to ensure safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service for patients and staff in the directorate.

Ensure good medicines management delivery and patient focused medicines optimisation for all Emergency floor patients

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

To provide and lead on the strategic direction and implementation of pharmacy services to the Directorate of Acute and Emergency Medicine on the Royal Liverpool site.

To develop, manage, implement and evaluate Emergency floor pharmacy team services to the Directorate of Acute and Emergency Medicine

Supervises the training of Pharmacy staff in the Acute and Emergency team and wider pharmacy team as needed.

Liaise with appropriate health care 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
• 1 year pre-registration training and experience
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Experience

Relevant post diploma clinical experience at advanced clinical pharmacist level

Previous experience of the pharmaceutical management of Acute and Emergency medical patients

Experience in senior management and leadership

Tutor for postgraduate qualifications or preregistration pharmacist tutor

Knowledge

• Good all round Knowledge and practical and clinical skills

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
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
• Ability to affect and manage change

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

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.

Candidatesapplying 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 18 th 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, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & 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 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

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 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.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.