Adv Spec Pharmacist - Project Lead (Palliative and End-of-Life Care)

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) and lead a short-term project focused on promoting the safer use of insulin.

This post is hosted by the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust and based at the Pharmacy Practice Unit (PPU with opportunity to work remotely.  This is a fixed term contract for 6 months at 8B 0.4WTE.  Secondments will be considered.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday, 3rd June 2025 by MS Teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Develop and subsequently deliver against a ‘Safe use of insulin’ project plan.
• Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network, key challenges related to safe use of insulin, including storage, prescribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring.
• Identify, through engagement with the medication safety activist network, interventions and examples of good practice to improve the safe use of insulin in all care settings.
• Contribute to the development, delivery and maintenance of quality assured medicines safety resources to support commissioners, organisations and healthcare professionals (resources may be website articles, webinars, podcasts, videos and workspace content on NHS Futures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Delivers the specified project outcomes within agreed timescales.
• Appropriately liaising with stakeholders across England. This will include national subject matter experts (e.g. NHS England national clinical directors); senior colleagues in stakeholder organisations (regulatory, commissioning and providers); internal colleaguesacross the SPS functions.
• Develops and maintains appropriate SPS resources to fulfil the project brief, ensuring accuracy of information which is up to date with current policy and practice and applies all governance requirements. Resources may be webinars, podcasts, videos, website articles and workspaces on NHS Futures.
• Contributes to uniting and integrating SPS resources to ensure all resources are shared across the country, thus maximising efficiency, and productivity.
• Exercises professional judgment and makes decisions in complex situations where information is partial or conflicting, or when ethical issues are involved. Provides expert guidance on aspects of content planning, maintenance, and management in specialist medicines related fields. Includes consideration of clinical governance implications, to frontline practitioners, managers and directors in provider and commissioner settings.
• Encourages and facilitates development, innovation and promotes new ways of working to deliver best practice in use of SPS resources.
• Supports integrated work and the delivery of the highest levels of quality, outcomes and productivity in services that involve medicines and the potential for medication related harms.