Job Description

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Intermediate Care and Specialist Services - Urgent Community Response Team (Maternity cover)



An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide Medicines Management support to community specialist nursing teams.



The post holder will work as an advanced clinical pharmacist supporting with queries and medication reviews for the Urgent Community Response Team.



The post holder will complete medication reviews for patients to support them to get the best possible outcomes from their medicines. This will involve analysing and interpreting highly complex clinical situations and communicate effective medicines optimisation solutions. They will support an integrated approach to medicines optimisation, helping to ensure patients have access to the Medicines Optimisation support they require to improve patient outcomes. The post holder will work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.



The postholder will provide specialist information, education, training and advice to members of the multi-disciplinary team to maximise pharmaceutical care.



You will receive clinical supervision and peer support from a large Medicines Management team within Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust.

Main Duties of the Job:

Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team. Support with queries and Domiciliary Medication Reviews for patients under review by the Urgent Community Response Team. This will also include supporting existing Medicines Management pharmacists and technicians already embedded within these teams. Support with safe and effective prescribing of medicines within the Urgent Community Response Team.

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.

For questions about the job, contact:

Michelle Li, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Knowsley Urgent Community Response Team, Phone: 07879471860, Email: Michelle.Li@merseycare.nhs.uk or



Lucie Michaelson, Team/Locality Pharmacist Manager- Intermediate Care and Specialist Services, Phone: 07502901676, Email: Lucie.Michaelson@merseycare.nhs.uk