Pharmacy Medicines Management Assistant

Are you self-motivated, enthusiastic, and ambitious with excellent interpersonal skills, with a focus on staff development and organisational change?

We are looking to recruit a forward thinking, dedicated and enthusiastic individual to support the development of the ward based and dispensary service at Oxford Road Campus.

The role will involve developing a medicines management service to provide high quality, efficient person centered care and drive improvements within Medicines Optimisation. It will also involve working collaboratively in developing key working relationships within a diverse team.

An excellent communicator.

You will be committed to reviewing systems of work, with excellent problem-solving skills, identifying risks, and developing Standard Operating Procedures to ensure that the service is safe and efficient.

If you think you have what it takes please give us a call for an informal chat, we can facilitate departmental walk rounds and can give further information about this exciting role…….so why wait, get in touch today!

To provide a safe and effective pharmacy service, carrying out a range of pharmaceutical technical duties that enable the pharmacy team to deliver a high level of pharmaceutical care to patients.

Duties include:

1. Dispensing medicines in the main dispensary and in the satellite
2. Maintaining individual patients medicines lockers on the wards
3. Dispensing controlled drugs
4. Returning medicines to pharmacy
5. Refilling resus boxes
6. Completing safe and secure medicines audits
7. General housekeeping

You will be supported by a team of Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists.

You must hold an NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services or GPhC approved equivalent qualification to be shortlisted for an interview.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts 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 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.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Natalie Marshall
Job title: Lead Pharmacy Technician
Email address: natalie.marshall@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 701 4337