Specialist Paediatric Pharmacist

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus oncall / late rota commitment/ weekend & bank holiday rota commitment)) Job
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Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Children Foundation Trust Town Liverpool Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 17/03/2026 23:59

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to paediatric in-patients

Provide highly specialised paediatric drug therapy advice to patients/carers, medical and nursing staff and other healthcare professionals

Provide teaching to pharmacy, nursing and medical staff in specialist areas of clinical practice and supervises less experienced band 6 pharmacists & students.

To provide Clinical Pharmacy Services to paediatric patients and support advanced/lead pharmacists in the delivery of services to their patients.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our clinical pharmacist team. Pharmacist with no paediatric experience will be considered and training is provided in all specialties.

Provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to paediatric inpatients including in accordance with professional, national, departmental and Trust policies.

Undertake Medicines Reconciliation, medication review, formulation and review of pharmaceutical care plans and all other aspects of clinical and Near Patient Pharmacy

Advise on drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, therapeutic drug monitoring and compatibilities of drugs ensuring a holistic approach to pharmaceutical care when advising on dose changes. Record interventions and clinical advice in patient care plans or medical case notes.

Produce specialist drug therapy guidelines which impact on other disciplines using computer knowledge and keyboard skills

Participate in daily multidisciplinary ward rounds and offer pharmaceutical advice.

Actively contribute at specialist clinical patient discussion meetings by providing highly specialist pharmaceutical advice.

Guide and advise medical and nursing staff in the choice of therapy, supportive therapy, safe prescribing, and suitable methods of administration and formulation of drugs.

Provide and interpret highly specialist pharmaceutical information, in an area where potentially little or no information is available, to consultants, other medical and nursing staff and patients.

Liaise with senior medical and nursing staff, including Advanced Nurse Practitioners, to plan therapies in advance of treatment.

Work as a non-medical prescriber in a designated area of clinical practice or work towards this qualification.

Consider the information needs of children with specialist conditions and provide written and verbal information for patients and parents.

Facilitate the implementation of local and national clinical trials.

Assist in audit of specialist therapies.

Investigate, document and report medicines-related incidents or complaints exploring ways of minimising the risk of future re-occurrence.

Assist in developing shared-care packages, liaising with appropriate healthcare professionals within shared-care hospitals to ensure the efficient and effective communication of uniform information across the secondary / tertiary interface.

Support and develop the prescribing and administration of specialist therapies during day-case admissions and at home ensuring the pharmaceutical needs of patients are met and that there are the appropriate governance…