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Job overview

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge? Are you ready to expand your clinical and leadership potential and develop your career?

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to apply for the newly created position of Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Emergency Care  at North  Manchester General Hospital. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the Emergency Department  as well as the wider Pharmacy team. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist. This varied and challenging position presents a great opportunity to make a real difference to patient care, demonstrate your ability to innovate and implement change, and lead, support and progress the pharmacy services. 

Main duties of the job

Then postholder will work in the Emergency Department, developing and delivering excellent pharmaceutical services to patients with a wide range of often complex medical and surgical problems.

You will be an active part of the Emergency Department MDT, providing expert medicines advice to staff and patients, reviewing medication incidents and developing clinical guidelines with ED peers across the wider Trust. You will perform a pivotal role in the provision of education and training to the multi-disciplinary team and ensure key governance priorities are met. If you are not already an independent non-medical prescriber, we would look to support you to achieve this qualification as a departmental priority.

Applicants must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work as part of a team whilst also managing your own workload. You must be dynamic, resilient, and be able to manage and motivate others. You will have the ability to influence the multidisciplinary team and engage with key stakeholders. 

If you are a keen and motivated registered pharmacist with hospital experience and a passion for developing new ideas, this may be the post for you. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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.