Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Renal Medicine

We're excited to offer a 12-month secondment as an Advanced Renal Pharmacist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. This is a fantastic chance to become part of a well-established and expanding Renal Pharmacy Team, with ongoing opportunities to contribute to innovative work across Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) pathways. You'll work alongside a highly supportive Consultant Nephrology team who are keen to see pharmacy play an even greater role in renal care. Our service is evolving, and we're looking for someone who's ready to help shape its future. What we offer:

• A collaborative, experienced, and forward-thinking renal pharmacy team
• Opportunities to manage complex renal patients and develop specialist expertise
• Close integration with Nephrology and Transplant teams
• A Trust-wide remit to improve medicines use in patients with renal impairment
• A supportive environment for continuous learning and career development
Whether you're seeking to build on existing renal experience or step into a new specialist challenge, this role offers a rewarding career path with real impact.,
• Assist the Lead Pharmacist for Nephrology and Transplantation in developing pharmacy services and medicines management within the Trust's renal pharmacy programme.
• Provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to nephrology and transplant wards at the Royal site.
• Assist the Lead in clinical training and supervision, relevant to renal pharmacy and medication optimisation for all professionals within the trust.
• Collaborate with nephrology consultants and renal specialists to ensure seamless care.
• Support the transplant immunosuppression prescribing clinic, ensuring safe and effective use of immunosuppressive therapies in renal transplant patients.
• Support the Pharmacist-led CKD Medicines Optimisation clinic, ensuring patients are optimised on goal directed therapies to slow the progression of their kidney disease. .
You will be highly collaborative, innovative, and looking for a new challenge. You will be passionate about optimising medicines and setting an example of excellent pharmaceutical care for renal patients.,
• Assist in the delivery of the Renal Pharmacy strategy at the Royal Liverpool site.
• Develop, manage, implement, and audit renal medicines policies and guidelines across the trust, ensuring safe and effective prescribing in patients with kidney disease.
• Supervise the training of pharmacy staff in renal medicine, including prescribing considerations in renal impairment, dialysis, and transplantation.
• Liaise with appropriate healthcare professionals within Primary Care Trusts to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources across the primary/secondary care interface, and where necessary, develop relevant protocols for managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), dialysis, and post-transplant care.
• Collaborate with nephrology and transplant specialists to optimise patient care.
• Support the transplant immunosuppression prescribing clinic and medication reviews for dialysis patients, ensuring appropriate prescribing, monitoring, and patient education.
  
  Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
Desirable criteria
• Ability to affect and manage change, Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills, Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Antimicrobial Stewardship experience
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education
Desirable criteria
• Experience as a NMP, Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience
Desirable criteria
• Full NMP qualification
• MRPharmS, Computer literate, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

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