clinical pharmacist Manchester, England
Job description
Are you searching for your opportunity to progress in hospital pharmacy? Do you want to use your knowledge and experience to deliver excellent patient-centred care? Yes, then these posts are meant for you !
We are delighted to be able to offer a number of specialist clinical pharmacist posts at Wythenshawe and Trafford hospitals that will rotate annually through all clinical specialties within the department.
It’s an exciting time for us following the launch of Hive EPR across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to come and join our teams in our transformational journey.
You will form an integral part of the pharmacy team and wider MDT, playing an essential role in optimising patient care and medicines use, and will contribute to the weekend, bank holiday, late night and on-call rotas as scheduled. You must be motivated to provide high quality care, improve the service and identify areas requiring service development to ensure patients' needs are met.
We are a supportive department and offer a variety of education and development opportunities, from weekly learning at lunch sessions, to supporting staff with postgraduate qualifications such as non-medical prescribing in accordance with the needs of the service.
Please see the job description for more information
You will work on a rotational basis across a range of clinical specialties including: Acute Medicine, General Medicine & Complex Health, Medical Specialties, General and Specialist Surgery, Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery, Tertiary Respiratory services (including CF), Pulmonary oncology and palliative care, Tertiary Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery including Heart & Lung Transplantation, Paediatrics/neonatology and Women’s health, Critical care (acute ICU, cardiothoracic critical care including ECMO). You will also have the opportunity to spend time within the Medicines Information and Antimicrobial Stewardship teams.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a high-quality pharmacy service to allocated clinical areas, ensuring timely and accurate medicines reconciliation on admission, ongoing inpatient monitoring and review in accordance with agreed acuity and complexity requirements, and optimising medications to deliver a safe and appropriate discharge service to patients. They will support the directorate lead pharmacist and be expected to actively participate in organisational medicines safety and risk management initiatives, including audit and incident reporting.
The post holder will also be involved in supporting the wider multidisciplinary team in the safe and effective use of medicines, and the promotion of the pharmacy service across the site.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
