Lead Pharmacist (Consultant)

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Lead Pharmacist (Consultant) to provide clinical leadership in Genomic Medicine. You will oversee the delivery of pharmacy services across various healthcare settings, ensuring high standards and patient-centered care. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in clinical pharmacy and a strong background in genomics. The role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Professional development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Extensive recent post-registration hospital experience in clinical specialties.
• Post Graduate Training in Genomics or equivalent experience.
• Experience in training and supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in Genomic Medicine practice.
• Set clear expectations and deliver genomic objectives.
• Monitor and maintain professional high standards.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to problem solve

Ability to lead and manage teams

Knowledge of NHS values and principles

Education

Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy

Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Leadership / Management Qualification

Job description

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Lead Pharmacist (Consultant)

The closing date is 21 October 2025

The NHS Genomics Medicine Service (GMS) will facilitate strong collaborations across large geographies, working with all healthcare providers, patients and the public to build trust in genomics, and provide 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 causes 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, midwives, 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 Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and 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.

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. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, please read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides 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

Education and Qualifications

• Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy with 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.
• Leadership / Management Qualification or completion of formal Leadership programme

Experience

• Extensive recent post-registration hospital experience in a range of clinical specialties, 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.
• 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.
• Evidence of published audit/ research
• Experience of disciplinary matters and imparting results from them to staff in an appropriate and considered manner

Skills

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

Knowledge

• 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.
• 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.

Final salary information: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 per annum (pro rata)