Job summary
Clinical Pharmacist
Hospital at Home / Community IV
Band 7 Fulltime permanent post
Community Medicines Optimisation Services (CMOS)
Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisations (LCO)
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team in working with the community services within Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisation (LCO) as part of MFT
We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to promote innovative ways of working and positively contribute to local residents remaining in their own homes. You should be confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills as well as good clinical knowledge.
The successful candidate will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning Community Medicines Optimisation Service (CMOS) team in providing a patient facing pharmaceutical service in working closely with pharmacy teams and other healthcare professionals across MFT
This is a rotational post with the successful candidates working within services such as Hospital at Home and the community IV service
You must be registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist, hold a post graduate clinical diploma or equivalent (or working towards this qualification) and have some hospital or primary care experience.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the provision of a high quality, comprehensive clinical medicines optimisation service to different services within LCO eg, hospital at home and community IV services
- Provide clinical pharmacist support to other healthcare professionals within the LCO and partnered services
- Work with clinical leads to ensure best practice with medicines
- Identify and resolve medicines-related issues on transfer between care settings
- Support the delivery of the medicines management staff training programme
- Provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge and advice on medicines management matters to MFT/LCO staff, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease management
- Promote and monitor antimicrobial stewardship principles to staff and patients within LCO
- Encourage and support the development of good practice and safe medicines management/optimisation systems across MFT and LCO
- Work as, or work towards being an independent prescriber
- Participate in arrangements that may involve flexible working, e.g. extended hours or 7 day service
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
Registration & Qualifications
Essential
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
- Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination.
- Relevant clinical diploma/post graduate qualification (or working towards this qualification) or evidence of equivalent clinical experience.
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Non-Medical Prescribing
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through the vocational Masters' degree in pharmacy or equivalent pre-registration experience.
- Post qualification experience in a relevant role practicing as a pharmacist.
- Current and relevant clinical knowledge in area of speciality.
- Sound understanding of biochemical and haematological data.
- Ability to analyse complex information relating to individual patients' medication.
- Demonstrable experience of training and support of pharmacists/other staff groups.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent organisational, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrable ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to effect change and influence others.
- Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.
- Understanding of clinical governance issues.
- Ability to recognise own limitations and boundaries and need to consult with senior colleagues.
- Demonstrable commitment to CPD
Desirable
- Experience of developing and implementing change.
- Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services in hospital.
- Experience of providing prescribing advice to general practice.
- Experience of working with primary care prescribing systems (e.g. EMIS).
- Experience of audit.
- Experience and knowledge of developing guidelines/protocols.
- Data analysis skills.
- Experience of supervising other staff.
Person Specification
Registration & Qualifications
Essential
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
- Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination.
- Relevant clinical diploma/post graduate qualification (or working towards this qualification) or evidence of equivalent clinical experience.
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Non-Medical Prescribing
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through the vocational Masters' degree in pharmacy or equivalent pre-registration experience.
- Post qualification experience in a relevant role practicing as a pharmacist.
- Current and relevant clinical knowledge in area of speciality.
- Sound understanding of biochemical and haematological data.
- Ability to analyse complex information relating to individual patients' medication.
- Demonstrable experience of training and support of pharmacists/other staff groups.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent organisational, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrable ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to effect change and influence others.
- Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.
- Understanding of clinical governance issues.
- Ability to recognise own limitations and boundaries and need to consult with senior colleagues.
- Demonstrable commitment to CPD
Desirable
- Experience of developing and implementing change.
- Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services in hospital.
- Experience of providing prescribing advice to general practice.
- Experience of working with primary care prescribing systems (e.g. EMIS).
- Experience of audit.
- Experience and knowledge of developing guidelines/protocols.
- Data analysis skills.
- Experience of supervising 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).
