Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational)

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust seeks a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for a permanent, full-time role at North Manchester General Hospital. The position offers an opportunity to work across various specialties, enhance patient care, and develop professionally within a supportive environment. You'll thoroughly engage in clinical pharmacy services and contribute to a committed healthcare team dedicated to patient-centered outcomes.

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters degree in Pharmacy required.
• Post-qualification experience as a Pharmacist is essential.
• Must be a member of the GPhC.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality pharmacy service to allocated clinical areas.
• Ensure timely and accurate medicines reconciliation on admission.
• Participate in medicines safety and risk management initiatives.

Skills

Team Working

Clinical Knowledge

Commitment to CPD

Education

Vocational Masters degree in Pharmacy

Postgraduate qualification e.g. clinical diploma

Completion of the Independent Prescribing Course

Job description

Main area Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational) Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 349-CSS-7117053-RL4

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Manchester General Hospital Town Manchester Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 24/06/2025 23:59

Band 7

Job overview

Are you searching for your opportunity to progress in hospital pharmacy? Do you want to use your knowledge and experience to deliver excellent patient-centred care? We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our team at North Manchester General Hospital.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join our supportive team at NMGH - we are digitally advanced with our Hive EPR system across the Trust, and we offer the benefits of working in a large Trust whilst offering the friendly familiarity of a smaller hospital site.

You will work on a rotational basis across a range of clinical specialties, including opportunities in infectious diseases, critical care, paediatrics and neonatology, frailty and intermediate care, obstetrics and gynaecology, acute medicine, cardiology, respiratory, surgery and orthopaedics. You will also have the opportunity to spend time within the medicines information and antimicrobial stewardship teams. We offer a variety of education and development opportunities, from weekly learning at lunch sessions to supporting staff with postgraduate qualifications such as non-medical prescribing in accordance with the needs of the service.

We are well connected to Manchester City Centre, with bus and metrolink routes available. Please come and have a look around if you think that we could be your next step - we'd love to talk to you

Please see the job description for more information

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a high quality pharmacy service to allocated clinical areas, ensuring timely and accurate medicines reconciliation on admission, ongoing inpatient monitoring and review in accordance with agreed acuity and complexity requirements, and optimising medications to deliver a safe and appropriate discharge service to patients. They will be expected to actively participate in organisational medicines safety and risk management initiatives, including audit and incident reporting.

The post holder will also be involved in supporting the wider multidisciplinary team in the safe and effective use of medicines, and the promotion of the pharmacy service across the site.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust 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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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

• Vocational Masters degree (or equivalent) in Pharmacy
• Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination
• Member of the GPhC
• Job related postgraduate qualification e.g. 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.
• Experience in supervision of other staff.
• Financial awareness in the management of drug budgets.
• Awareness of current political agendas.
• Research 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 Joanna Wallett Job title Clinical Services Manager and Site Lead Pharmacist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0161 625 8210 Additional information