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Job overview
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (LWH) and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital are working in partnership to change and improve how neonatal services are delivered to families across the Northwest.
Improvements have already been made to the way neonatal care is being delivered, including colleagues from both hospitals working more closely together across both sites under the formation of the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership (LNP). The Neonatal Unit at Liverpool Women’s Hospital has also been recently redeveloped and a newly built Neonatal Intensive and High Dependency Care Unit opened in 2020. The next phase in the development is a new 22 cot Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) at Alder Hey. The unit is expected to be open at the end of 2026.
As post holder, you will cover 12 months maternity leave and support neonatal services in Liverpool across both sites under the partnership. You will become part of the well-established multidisciplinary team and will be involved in the delivery of core pharmacy and enhanced clinical services to the neonatal speciality.
If you share our commitment to provide excellent healthcare for women, babies and their families in a safe, friendly and caring environment, and share our values, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with senior colleagues within LWH and Alder Hey pharmacy departments and the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership, to deliver and develop the clinical pharmacy service.
When the new unit opens the post holder will support the day to day organisation of the clinical pharmacy services for medical and surgical neonates at Liverpool Women's and Alder Hey Children's Hospital; participate in the multidisciplinary ward rounds to provide an advanced clinical service; and liaise with the relevant medical and nursing staff to promote safe, effective and cost effective use of medication in neonatology.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities.
Provide a highly specialist level of pharmaceutical care to babies admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and will support other health care professionals with regards to the use of medicines in this area,
Develop and deliver high quality training for medicines use in neonates to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe and effective use of medicines.
Take part in the neonatal MDT ward rounds and provide non-medical prescribing support as appropriate.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a hospital setting, across a variety of clinical specialties or equivalent post diploma experience
- Experience of providing support to the management of a pharmacy service to a designated directorate
- Experience of providing pharmacy services to neonatal and/or specialist paediatric services
Desirable
- Experience of working in an acute teaching or tertiary specialist centre
- Experience of working with high cost drugs and Blueteq
- Experience of working as a specialist neonatal pharmacist
- Experience of undertaking audit and/or research and using the results to effect positive change
- Experience of teaching, training and/or mentoring
- Line management, mentoring and experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Qualification
Essential
- Masters degree, or equivalent, in pharmacy
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Member of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Leadership training
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent clinical pharmacy knowledge, including knowledge of the use of medicines in paediatrics/neonates
- Able to work positively and calmly under pressure to meet deadlines
- Committed to developing and enhancing pharmacy services
- Committed to error reporting and learning
- Good IT skills, able to learn new programmes quickly
Desirable
- Understanding of NHS priorities
- Knowledge of HR procedures and policies
- Knowledge and understanding of financial issues, including CIP or QUEP initiatives
- Demonstrable management abilities
- Demonstrable experience of developing pharmacy services
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Neonates with Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £53,755 - £60,504 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave). The application deadline is 07 Aug 2026.
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