Job Description

We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacist to play a significant role in medicines safety until the permanent postholder returns from maternity leave. This is a great fixed-term or secondment opportunity to broaden your skill set or try out a new focus. We are seeking a motivated pharmacist with a passion for patient safety and an inquiring mind to join the team and help make our hospital the safest place to take medicines.



You would become an integral part of our fantastic Medicines Safety Team, yet remain at the cutting edge of the clinical pharmacy service in this 50:50 role, providing clinical pharmacy input to a specialist clinical area. The post presents an excellent opportunity to optimise all of your current expertise and to develop further leadership and specialist skills, supported by our very experienced Lead Pharmacists in the Clinical Team and Medicines Safety.



Working closely with pharmacy, nursing and medical teams you will support the medicines governance workstreams and provide a clinical pharmacy service to a specific clinical area.



With the guidance of our experienced Lead Safety Pharmacist, you will review medicines incidents and support investigations to ensure that contributory factors are understood and that learning is shared to improve systems and processes. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop and implement a range of medication safety initiatives, expanding your experience with service improvement. This will include the development and delivery of educational resources.



As a medicines safety champion you will promote the medicines safety agenda within the organisation and inspire others to embrace improvement.



All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents. We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint. We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of 337m. The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.



Please see attached for further information about the Highly Specialist Pharmacist position available at WUTH.