Clinical Pharmacist – Stroke & Neurosciences

Job summary

Would you like the opportunity to work in one of the busiest neuroscience units in the country, working as a stroke pharmacist?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to lead on the provision of a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to the Stroke Directorate.

Salford Royal Hospital is part of The Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre. Salford Royal is the hub of the Greater Manchester Stroke services providing both hyper acute stroke services and a comprehensive stroke centre for acute stroke patients 24/7 from Bolton, Central Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan and across Greater Manchester.

The primary responsibility of the Clinical Pharmacist for stroke will be to provide a specialist pharmacist service for patients on the hyper acute stroke unit and to lead the pharmacy team across the stroke service.

The successful post holder will collaborate with the stroke and neurosciences multidisciplinary team. Including ensuring the safe and appropriate use of high cost medicines.

The stroke specialist pharmacist will be involved in the review of new and existing treatments for the local and Greater Manchester formularies.

Main duties of the job

You will be given the opportunity to contribute to departmental research and quality improvement activities.

Additional responsibilities include line management of junior pharmacists and the opportunity to tutor a pharmacist on their postgraduate clinical diploma course. Participation will be expected in the departmental weekend and on-call rotas.

You will have a minimum of three years hospital clinical pharmacy experience, a postgraduate clinical qualification and be a current non medical prescriber.

Experience of clinical pharmacy in a specialist neurology area is desirable but not essential providing you have transferrable skills.

We are an Integrated Care Organisation bringing together health and social care services and we have an extremely successful track record in delivering high quality patient services for the populations of Salford, Greater Manchester and beyond.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.