Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, where you'll be part of an innovative healthcare team dedicated to transforming patient care. This role offers the chance to work across various specialties, gaining invaluable experience from nationally recognized experts. You'll receive comprehensive support, including a postgraduate clinical diploma and engaging training sessions. The Trust is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and development, ensuring that you thrive in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about pharmacy and eager to make a difference, this is the opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC or completing Trainee year by July 2025.
• Hospital experience is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Cover Out of Hours Pharmacy Service and develop clinical pharmacy knowledge.
• Work collaboratively in hospital teams under pressure.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy Knowledge

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Decision-Making Capabilities

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

Registered with GPhC

Trainee Pharmacist Year Completion

Job description

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Join us in our world-class specialist Pharmacy and Medicine Optimisation services in an integrated health, teaching, research and innovation campus. Our new system, HIVE is transforming how we provide patient care. Training and opportunities are here for you at one of England’s largest NHS Trusts. Take this Rotational Clinical Pharmacist role on and you will initially be based at one of our Pharmacy Departments either at Oxford Road Campus, Trafford, Wythenshawe or North Manchester, with the prospect of eventually working across all sites and specialties. You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from, nationally recognised leads in a range of clinical specialties, enjoying a challenge as broad as it is professionally rewarding.

As you develop your career with us, you will have the benefit of exposure to our range of services that we provide to our local population and those who travel from further afield to access our Regional and National specialist services. During your first year at MFT we will support you through the HEE NQPP then you will be supported through a postgraduate clinical diploma. You will also benefit from our weekly pharmacy wide lunchtime teaching sessions.

We will be holding interviews on Saturday 1st March 2025 at our Oxford Road Campus. If you are shortlisted, please plan for this taking 1.5 hours as there will be an opportunity to attend a presentation from our current band 6 pharmacists about working at MFT, during which you can ask them questions. The rest of the time will be spent undertaking tasks which will test the skills required to be a band 6 hospital pharmacist as well as traditional interview questions.

Main duties of the job

This role also involves covering the Out of Hours Pharmacy Service for the MFT hospitals, whether it is working 24/7 shifts or covering a traditional on-call service you will further develop your clinical pharmacy knowledge, organisational, communication and negotiation skills and decision-making capabilities.

Passion, dedication and motivation are essential here. A confident communicator, you’ll be comfortable working in hospital teams and solving problems under pressure, with an enthusiasm for learning and personal development. You’ll be either registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or be due to complete your Trainee Pharmacist year in July 2025.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale from most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and 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 and staff experience, operational effectiveness and 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 and 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 and 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.

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

• Currently registered with GPhC, or due to complete Trainee year in July 2025

Experience

• Hospital experience

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: Gill Butler Job title: Lead E+T Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 276 5006 Additional information

Mike Hodgins (Wythenshawe and Trafford Hospitals) via phone [phone] or email [e-mail]

Charlotte Storer (North Manchester General Hospital) via phone [phone] or email [e-mail]