Are you passionate about critical care and excited by the evolving field of clinical informatics? Do you want to be part of a multidisciplinary team of expert healthcare professionals, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes?
LUHFT has a team of over 120 pharmacists across three sites, delivering clinical pharmacy services to a wide range of specialties. This post involves working across both the Royal and Aintree Critical Care units, leading the optimisation of our recent implementation of a specialist Critical Care EPR with electronic prescribing to enhance patient safety and care.
This role offers a unique chance to contribute to a proactive, patient-centred service as part of a clinical informatics role supported by our Chief Clinical Information Officer, in close collaboration with our digital medicines and medicines safety teams.
Support the maintenance of the electronic prescribing system within the critical care units and work to optimise its use, ensuring it is safe, effective, and user-friendly for the entire multidisciplinary team.
Assist the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Critical Care Directorate
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Critical Care units.
Assist the Lead Pharmacists in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to the staff within the department.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Critical Care Units.
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.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Thompson Job title: Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0151 529 2218
Colin Brennan
Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services
0151 529 2218
