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Job overview

Do you want a new challenge?

Do you want to develop your clinical, leadership and managerial skills and progress your career?

We are looking for an exceptional pharmacist who is enthusiastic and motivated and has strong leadership skills.

We are excited to take applications for a newly created Band 8a Clinical Pharmacist post to provide the steering and oversight of innovative care to surgical patients at Trafford Elective Hub.  This unit is based at Trafford General Hospital site of Manchester Foundation Trust and is fast becoming the most prominent Elective Orthopaedic Surgery site in the Greater Manchester area with an exciting expansion program over the next 2 years. 

The successful candidate will also be part of the Leadership Pharmacy Team at Trafford General Hospital to ensure that all operational and managerial functions run optimally on a day to day basis and the clinical service provided to all patients has excellence at its’ core.  The postholder will co-ordinate the ongoing education and training of junior pharmacists to ensure that the quality of pharmaceutical care meets the clinical standards of the service.

The successful candidate will support medicines optimisation, be actively involved in service development opportunities and drive the delivery of patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the Surgery and Theatres Division.   

Main duties of the job

Based primarily at Trafford General Hospital (TGH), you will work across the Division of Surgery & Theatres (WTWA) supporting both the development of the service and junior pharmacists who provide day to day clinical services on the site. 

You will be pivotal to the development and delivery of pharmaceutical services to patients and provide expert medicines advice, review medicines incidents and develop clinical guidelines.   You will have the ability to engage with stakeholders to ensure key medicines optimisation priorities and Trust KPIs are met.

You should be confident working in a team and have excellent communication skills and clinical knowledge, particularly in relation to peri-operative medicine.  You will have strong line management support in order to further your development and will have regular appraisals and mentoring. 

There is a strong commitment to education and development in the Trust and if needed, you will be supported with the enrolment onto postgraduate qualifications such as Non-Medical Prescribing and/or relevant Leadership/Change Management courses. 

This is an exciting time for TGH and this role would be perfect for a keen, motivated pharmacist with hospital experience, who wants to balance building on clinical knowledge whilst developing leadership and change management skills. 

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.