Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards - WirralNHS
Job summary
The Senior Clinical Pharmacist plays a crucial role within our virtual wards, with a clinical focus on frailty, respiratory and general medicine, working collaboratively with acute providers across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment, providing pharmaceutical expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
We are looking for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our Virtual Ward Pharmacy Team on a fixed term basis for 12 months, working alongside the Principal Clinical Pharmacist to design, enhance and deliver high quality pharmacy services to patients receiving care on virtual wards. Each role works alongside the pharmacy and clinical teams at the acute trust which deliver the virtual ward service they are allocated to. We are now looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to provide virtual ward services for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Wirral Virtual Wards offer frailty and respiratory services, based at Arrowe Park Hospital and Clatterbridge Hospital, respectively. The role is split across the two specialities, with majority of input into the frailty service.
Join our team and make a difference in the lives of patients across Cheshire and Merseyside!
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
- Providing specialist clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards, ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines.
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to optimise medicines management, including medicines reconciliation, prescribing, and monitoring.
- Conducting comprehensive medication reviews and providing evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.
- Supporting the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies related to pharmacy and medicines management for virtual wards.
- Providing education and training to healthcare professionals, patients and carers on medicines-related topics.
- Contributing to audit, research, and service improvement projects to enhance pharmaceutical care for patients on virtual wards.
Job description
The post holder will be an integral member of the C&M virtual wards pharmacy team. The main duties are to provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients admitted to the virtual wards across the ICB footprint and be part of the Place virtual ward clinical teams:
please note that a full JD/PS is attached to this vacancy
About us
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB covers a population of 2.7million people with services provided by 17 NHS trusts, 349 GP practices, 9 local authorities and 590 pharmacies.
This role is hosted by North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB and the post holder will be based within the virtual ward services at Arrowe Park Hospital and Clatterbridge Hospital. The role will provide services to the Virtual Ward site but will be part of a team of pharmacists working across all areas of the ICB.
The Medicines Management team at C&M ICB and pharmacy team at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust are committed to the professional development of their staff. Full induction and training will be provided for staff working in this new area of practice, and we will support staff who wish to undertake additional training linked to their role.