Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Antimicrobial Stewardship
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Wirral University Teaching Hospitals
Wirral University Teaching Hospitals are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking Pharmacist to lead the antimicrobial stewardship agenda across the locality and to provide strategic leadership within the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB.
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a senior role within a large, diverse locality that is proud of its strong clinical standards, collaborative culture, and commitment to continuous improvement.
We are looking for a registered pharmacist with substantial clinical experience and a strong interest and expertise in antimicrobial stewardship.
Your expertise will directly influence prescribing practice, service development, and patient outcomes.
If you’re passionate about antibiotic use, and ready to take on a senior, specialist leadership role where your expertise will make a real difference, we’d be delighted to receive your application.
Role Overview
As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead Pharmacist, you will provide expert clinical leadership and oversight for the antimicrobial stewardship agenda. You will work closely with primary and secondary multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based medicines use of antimicrobials across the Wirral.
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Key Responsibilities
- Act as a professional and clinical leader in the area of AMS across the Wirral health economy to deliver improvements in the utilisation of antimicrobials.
- Work in partnership with Clinical Leads, Microbiologists, Public Health Experts, Managers, and Pharmacy Leads to continually improve the medicines optimisation for patients requiring antimicrobial therapy.
- Develop a strategy to support the AMS agenda and reduction in AMR across Wirral in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders that fosters a culture for quality improvement and continuous learning.
About Us
We are a large department, employing 95 pharmacists and 47 MMTs delivering services to the acute hospital and primary care network (PCN). High-quality, proactive input is expected by our clinicians, nursing staff, and patients; as such, over half of our pharmacists are independent prescribers, actively using this qualification.
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Within our trust, we are dedicated to the promotion and expansion of the pharmacist role within the healthcare setting. We actively support and encourage pharmacist postgraduate development. We are a highly innovative department; recently winning, or shortlisted for national awards within surgery, antimicrobial stewardship, and PCN. The CQC describes services delivered by the pharmacy surgical team as "outstanding"; therefore, the successful applicant is expected to deliver and develop this role to meet the needs of patients across Wirral.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Debra Jones
- Job Title: Business Support Manager - Pharmacy
- Email Address: debra.jones1@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 0151 604 7416
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