Job overview

The NHS GMS will have a critical role in facilitating strong collaborations across large geographies, working with all healthcare providers, patients and the public to build trust in genomics, and providing clinical leadership to enable the multi-professional workforce to use genomics safely, effectively and efficiently. 

Potential improvements in care for patients include effective, quicker diagnosis of rare conditions, personalising treatments and care for patients with inherited conditions and cancer, and a better understanding of the underlying cause of many conditions.  The NHS GMS will work to uniform standards and a national test directory, and the Alliances will help embed this new technology, reduce unwarranted variation with commitments to make demonstrable improvements to outcomes for our patients and the populations we serve.

Our focus is to create a system of continuous improvement in health and care, not just treating illness, with the ability to predict accurately disease and tailor treatments.  However, it will only be possible to secure the benefits if everyone, including patients, the whole multi-professional team across the care system – doctors, nurses, midwifes, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, pharmacists – and academics are able to actively contribute and make this vision a reality.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Pharmacist, as an expert in Genomic Medicine, provides a dynamic link between the emerging clinical practice and service developments for Genomic Medicine by creating new models for delivering patient care thereby ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.  The role will provide visible leadership across the profession, monitoring and maintaining professional high standards.

You will be an innovative and dynamic practitioner committed to providing highly specialist pharmacy services and expert practice relevant to genomics in accordance with UK Medicines legislation, the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society standards and Trust policies and procedures. 

You will set clear expectations and lead the delivery of genomic objectives set by the North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (NWGMSA) and will demonstrate a strong commitment to delivering a world-class service for patients and their families.  You will be sought as an opinion leader regarding pharmaceutical care across Genomic Medicine and contribute to the national pharmacy genomics collaborative.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.