Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to provide Medicines Management support to Longmoor House which is an integrated 69 bed intermediate care facility, and the specialist Brain Injuries Rehabilitation Unit . Both are located on the Aintree hospital site. This Band 8a role offers an exciting opportunity to lead, deliver and develop comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines supply services to the Trust's inpatient physical health services, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, maximising patient pharmaceutical care, supporting safe transitions of care and improving patient outcomes. The post holder will be responsible for training and supervising other pharmacy staff members on rotation within inpatient physical health services.



Secondment opportunity available - discuss with line manager ahead of application

Key Responsibilities:

Lead clinical pharmacy services within intermediate care, ensuring high standards of medicines management.

Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support discharge planning and reduce readmissions.

Provide expert pharmaceutical advice and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.

Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.

Support development and implementation of Longmoor House Near Patient dispensing model.

Supervise and mentor junior pharmacy staff and trainees.

Complete accurate and timely medicines reconciliation following admission or transfer of service users within the trust.

Clinically check inpatient prescriptions, leave and discharge prescriptions to ensure the appropriate, safe, and legal supply of medicines, complying with national and local guidelines and Mersey Care Medicines Management Procedures.

Develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within inpatient physical health services.



Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.



We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.



At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.



Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.



To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical supply services, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council and relevant legislation.

2. To act as the advanced clinical pharmacist for inpatient physical health, specifically Longmoor House and the specialist Brain Injury Rehabilitation unit, within the medicines management team.

3. To act as the trust's point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within inpatient physical health services.

4. To be responsible for leading, delivering and developing comprehensive clinical pharmacy and supply services to the trust's inpatient physical health services.

5. To ensure that effective medicines management practices are developed and carried out consistently within all inpatient physical health services within the trust, to promote medicines safety and reduce risk of harm from medications.

6. To develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within inpatient physical health services.

7. To facilitate the implementation of local and national guidelines relating to inpatient physical health services.

8. To contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to inpatient physical health services, the modification of existing policies and procedures, and their implementation.

9. To undertake clinics with direct patient contact, including medication reviews and home visits where appropriate.

10. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to specialist area of practice, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers or posters at conferences and workshops.

11. To represent the trust at external meetings in relation to specialist area of practice.

12. Where appropriate, to attend, contribute to and feed back from appropriate regional or national meetings and conferences in relation to inpatient physical health.

13. To liaise with and advise local or national commissioners with regard to medication and audit relating to inpatient physical health services.

14. To act as the pharmacist lead in aligning processes between the trust and the relevant local pharmaceutical and medical committees.

15. To support inpatient physical health services in liaison with external agencies, in relation to handling of medicines and pharmaceutical care, and also to support psychosocial holistic care plans for patients



Please refer to the job description for more information.