Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our Frailty Pharmacy team at Mersey and West Lancashire (MWL) Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The postholder will be based at Whiston Hospital and provide a clinical pharmacy service to frailty patients at the Whiston site.

This is a fixed term position to cover maternity leave working closely with the rest of the pharmacy team, medical and nursing colleagues providing services to the frailty directorate. All areas have well established multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care.

Previous experience of providing pharmaceutical care to acutely unwell patients is essential, you will either hold a non medical prescribing qualification or be working towards completion of the non medical prescribing qualification. You will be expected to be a team player with significant clinical experience, excellent interpersonal skills and attention to detail. You will be encouraged to develop and implement your own ideas within the role and help drive the pharmacy service forward under the guidance of the clinical service manager and principal clinical pharmacists.

The department operates a 7 day service to the Trust and as part of this role you will be expected to participate in the rostered weekend working which is currently 1 in 5. Participation in the late night working and pharmacy on call will also be required. This role will be based at the Whiston Hospital site.

The Trust occupies two new state-of-the-art PFI hospitals, with the new Whiston Hospital having opened in April 2010, as well as Newton Hospital which has recently been integrated into the Trust's service.

Whiston Hospital is the main site within this large, high-performing acute Trust covering a large suburban area between Liverpool and Warrington, including St Helens, Prescot and Huyton. St. Helens hospital provides diagnostic and clinic based services along with rehabilitation services with Newton providing a rehabilitation service. We manage in the region of 850 beds across all sites, have accredited teaching hospital status, and provide for most major specialties., Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population over 600,000 with a workforce over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre (St Helens Hospital)

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and wheelchair services in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the North west and Wales

Achievements

HSJ Digital Finalists (2026)

Highest performing Acute Teaching Hospital in the North West, NHS oversight framework (2025)

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme