Highly Specialist Paediatric Neurosciences Pharmacist

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading health trust as a Highly Specialist Paediatric Neurosciences Pharmacist, where you'll provide vital clinical pharmacy support in a multidisciplinary team. This role offers an opportunity to develop your skills in neuromuscular treatments, mentoring, and leadership in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Benefits

Support in developing expertise through mentoring

Access to formal training courses

Opportunity for career development

Qualifications

• Current membership of GPhC is required.
• Relevant clinical knowledge in the area of specialty.
• Post qualification experience practicing as a pharmacist.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients with complex conditions like epilepsy and brain injuries.
• Play a key role in delivering novel treatments.
• Nurture and develop leadership and training skills within the pharmacy team.

Skills

Demonstrable team working

Demonstrable commitment to CPD

Research experience

Education

Vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy

Pre-registration training

Independent Prescribing Course

Job description

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Town Manchester Salary £46,148 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 29/06/2025 23:59

Highly Specialist Paediatric Neurosciences Pharmacist

Band 7/8a

Job overview

The Women’s and Children’s Pharmacy Team at MFT has a great opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and organised specialist pharmacist to join our neurosciences, surgical and critical care clinical pharmacy team. This role will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, and will provide clinical pharmacy support to patients, families and staff. We are seeking a pharmacist who is passionate, dedicated, and motivated to learn about this area. In this role you will supported by the Lead Paediatric Critical Care, Theatres and Surgery Pharmacist, the wider neurosciences team and the pharmacy team as a whole.

This is a training role depending on experience will depend on whether you are offered a 7 to 8a progressional role or the 8a role.

Main duties of the job

As part of a tertiary paediatric neurosciences multidisciplinary team with strong, well-established links with pharmacy, you will be responsible for providing care to patients with complex epilepsy, acquired brain injury and neuroinflammatory conditions.

In addition you will play a key role in the delivery of novel treatments for neuromuscular and neurometabolic conditions including gene and enzyme replacement therapies.

We are also one of only four centres in England providing specialist epilepsy surgery and surgical management of neurovascular diseases and brain tumours.

Working within the Women’s and Children’s pharmacy team can offer you support in developing your expertise and skills through formal training courses, mentoring and regular appraisals. We have a wealth of clinical knowledge in a wide range of specialities, with a strong team of senior pharmacists. We have excellent links with University of Manchester, CPPE and a variety of clinical national networks.

As a senior member of our Women’s and Children’s pharmacy team you can nurture and develop your leadership, education and training skills to line manage, mentor and train rotational pharmacists, technicians, and clinical colleagues.

This is an ideal opportunity to develop your career as part of a supportive and forward-thinking team.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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 at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current membership of GPhC
• Vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination Job related postgraduate qualification eg clinical diploma (or successful completion of the first year), or equivalent vocational experience
• Member of National/ International Specialist Organisation
• Completion of the Independent Prescribing Course

Knowledge and Experience

• Professional knowledge acquired through the vocational masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent preregistration experience
• Post qualification experience in a relevant role practicing as a pharmacist.
• Current and relevant clinical knowledge in area of speciality.
• Demonstrable team working
• Demonstrable commitment to CPD
• Demonstrable experience in training of other healthcare professionals
• Research experience
• Financial awareness in the management of drug budgets
• Awareness of current political agendas
• Experience in supervision of other staff

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Chris Paget Job title Lead Paediatric Pharmacist Critical Care & Surgery Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0161 701 5466