Job Title: Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Agency: North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (WHH)
Location: United Kingdom, Wirral
Salary/Rate: 57,528 to 64,750 £ / Year

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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 delivers 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 the 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Specialist knowledge acquired through a postgraduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar, or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience

Desirable

• Registered independent prescriber with the GPhC.

Physical Effort

Essential

• Able to lift/carry pharmaceutical goods.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive relevant post-registration experience
• Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge.
• Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
• Familiarity with the concepts of evidence-based medicines.
• Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Specialist knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services.
• Understanding of issues related to independent prescribing.
• Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services.
• Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
• Experience of implementing NICE, NSF recommendations related to medicines.
• Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines.
• Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals

Desirable

• Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these.
• Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
• Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
• Management/supervision of pharmacy staff.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

Essential

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff including prescribers, social care staff and patients.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Knowledge of other professional registering bodies e.g., NMC, GMC.
• Able to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
• Able to work and deliver within identified timelines.
• Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
• Good written communication skills.
• Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.

Desirable

• Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net and to interpret data produced.

Specific role requirements

Essential

• Reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Flexible approach.
• Able to concentrate on dispensing / checking/ clinical screening for extended periods.
• Able to cope with interruptions when busy.
• Able to work to deadlines i.e., transport, patients requiring medication.

Physical skills

Essential

• Computer literate including use of word-processing, excel spread-sheets, power-point.
• Ability to write report and other documents.

Desirable

• Knowledge of primary care clinical Systems (EMIS/SystmOne)
• Knowledge of secondary care clinical systems.

Mental Effort

Essential

• Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data.
• Critical appraisal skills.
• Ability to challenge.
• Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

Essential

• Good presentation skills.
• Good verbal communication skills.

Specific role requirements

Essential

• Professional appearance and manner.

Emotional Effort

Essential

• Exposure to upsetting situations, high level of resilience to deal with distressing and/or challenging situations
• Distressed patients with complex diseases. May work with distressed patients, relatives due to drug regime, drug misadventures.

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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