Job summary
The Women's and Children's Pharmacy Team at MFT has a great opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and organised specialist pharmacist to join our neurosciences, surgical and critical care clinical pharmacy team. This role will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, and will provide clinical pharmacy support to patients, families and staff. We are seeking a pharmacist who is passionate, dedicated, and motivated to learn about this area. In this role you will supported by the Lead Paediatric Critical Care, Theatres and Surgery Pharmacist, the wider neurosciences team and the pharmacy team as a whole.
This is a training role depending on experience will depend on whether you are offered a 7 to 8a progressional role or the 8a role.
Main duties of the job
As part of a tertiary paediatric neurosciences multidisciplinary team with strong, well-established links with pharmacy, you will be responsible for providing care to patients with complex epilepsy, acquired brain injury and neuroinflammatory conditions.
In addition you will play a key role in the delivery of novel treatments for neuromuscular and neurometabolic conditions including gene and enzyme replacement therapies.
We are also one of only four centres in England providing specialist epilepsy surgery and surgical management of neurovascular diseases and brain tumours.
Working within the Women's and Children's pharmacy team can offer you support in developing your expertise and skills through formal training courses, mentoring and regular appraisals. We have a wealth of clinical knowledge in a wide range of specialities, with a strong team of senior pharmacists. We have excellent links with University of Manchester, CPPE and a variety of clinical national networks.
As a senior member of our Women's and Children's pharmacy team you can nurture and develop your leadership, education and training skills to line manage, mentor and train rotational pharmacists, technicians, and clinical colleagues.
This is an ideal opportunity to develop your career as part of a supportive and forward-thinking team.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust 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 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 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 description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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 resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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 resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current membership of GPhC
- Vocational Master's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination Job related postgraduate qualification eg clinical diploma (or successful completion of the first year), or equivalent vocational experience
Desirable
- Member of National/ International Specialist Organisation
- Completion of the Independent Prescribing Course
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Research experience
- Financial awareness in the management of drug budgets
- Awareness of current political agendas
- Experience in supervision of other staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current membership of GPhC
- Vocational Master's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination Job related postgraduate qualification eg clinical diploma (or successful completion of the first year), or equivalent vocational experience
Desirable
- Member of National/ International Specialist Organisation
- Completion of the Independent Prescribing Course
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Research experience
- Financial awareness in the management of drug budgets
- Awareness of current political agendas
- Experience in supervision of other staff
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
