Lead Pharmacist (Consultant)

NHS; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester seeks a Lead Pharmacist to enhance Genomic Medicine services. You will lead the integration of innovative pharmaceutical care, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while enhancing patient outcomes through personalized treatments. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Equal opportunities for career development

Supportive work environment

Robust research infrastructure

Qualifications

• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Extensive recent post-registration hospital experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in Genomic Medicine and develop patient care models.
• Lead delivery of genomic objectives for the North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance.
• Ensure compliance with UK Medicines legislation and ethical guidelines.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to problem solve

Excellent organisational skills

Team dynamics and effective leadership

Education

Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy

Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Job description

Job summary

The NHS GMS will have a critical role in facilitating strong collaborations across large geographies, working with all healthcare providers, patients and the public to build trust in genomics, and providing clinical leadership to enable the multi-professional workforce to use genomics safely, effectively and efficiently.

Potential improvements in care for patients include effective, quicker diagnosis of rare conditions, personalising treatments and care for patients with inherited conditions and cancer, and a better understanding of the underlying cause of many conditions. The NHS GMS will work to uniform standards and a national test directory, and the Alliances will help embed this new technology, reduce unwarranted variation with commitments to make demonstrable improvements to outcomes for our patients and the populations we serve.

Our focus is to create a system of continuous improvement in health and care, not just treating illness, with the ability to predict accurately disease and tailor treatments. However, it will only be possible to secure the benefits if everyone, including patients, the whole multi-professional team across the care system - doctors, nurses, midwifes, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, pharmacists - and academics are able to actively contribute and make this vision a reality.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Pharmacist, as an expert in Genomic Medicine, provides a dynamic link between the emerging clinical practice and service developments for Genomic Medicine by creating new models for delivering patient care thereby ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered. The role will provide visible leadership across the profession, monitoring and maintaining professional high standards.

You will be an innovative and dynamic practitioner committed to providing highly specialist pharmacy services and expert practice relevant to genomics in accordance with UK Medicines legislation, the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society standards and Trust policies and procedures.

You will set clear expectations and lead the delivery of genomic objectives set by the North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (NWGMSA) and will demonstrate a strong commitment to delivering a world-class service for patients and their families. You will be sought as an opinion leader regarding pharmaceutical care across Genomic Medicine and contribute to the national pharmacy genomics collaborative.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.

Details

Date posted: 07 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8c

Salary: £76,965 to £88,682 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 6 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 349-COR-7473617-RL4

Job locations: Hybrid working, Manchester, M13 9WL

Job 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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential:

• Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy 1 year pre registration training and experience Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Meets or exceeds Department of Health Consultant Pharmacist Framework competencies, accredited at appropriate level of RPS Faculty or equivalent.

Desirable:

• Independent Prescriber
• Leadership / Management Qualification or completion of formal Leadership programme

Experience

Essential:

• Extensive recent post-registration hospital experience in a range of clinical specialities, ideally including experience in a teaching hospital.
• Post Graduate Training in Genomics (ongoing or completed) or equivalent clinical experience in genomics.
• Experience of leading and managing teams within pharmacy and other associated staff groups to deliver a high quality pharmacy service.
• Evidence of implementation of pharmacy service change and/or service innovation.
• Experience of writing reports and business cases.
• Project management experience.
• Setting and delivering high standard of care.
• Experience in training and supervising others.
• Audit / research experience.
• Performance Management and development of staff.
• Financial awareness in the management of medicines budgets.
• Experience in working at a regional/national level (e.g. as member of committee or via presentations/academic publications).
• Experience leading genomics based transformation and/or research.

Desirable:

• Evidence of published audit/ research
• Experience of disciplinary matters and imparting results from them to staff in an appropriate and considered manner

Skills

Essential:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to work with and influence other grades of staff and professions.
• Able to negotiate a positive outcome.
• Ability to use own initiative.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Ability to develop services to a designated area.
• Ability to affect and manage change with an ability to motivate others.
• Identifies and manages risk and ability to think strategically.
• Ability to prioritise and plan work effectively alone and when leading a team, including the ability to delegate appropriately.
• Ability to prioritise workload, work accurately, positively and calmly under pressure, and meet deadlines.
• Applies sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
• Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance.
• Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.

Desirable:

• IT skills
• Teaching and tutoring skills
• Formal project management training.
• Experience of partnership Working.

Knowledge

Essential:

• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and the implications of this.
• Awareness of National Guidance/ Policies and evidence of application of these within organisation.
• Demonstrated commitment to CPD.
• An understanding of pharmacogenomics, awareness of current issues and values.

Aptitudes

Essential:

• Reliable. Enthusiastic. Confident. Must be flexible and adaptable. Motivated by the desire to improve patient care.
• Must behave in a professional manner at all times.
• Knows own professional and personal limitations and seeks advice when necessary.
• Willingness to participate in weekend, evening, Bank holiday and on-call rotas as required.
• Willingness to contribute to the general life and work of the Pharmacy and Trust.

Desirable:

• Have own transport

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Additional information

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.

Diversity Matters

We are an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.