Job overview

Applications are invited to undertake the role of Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist for Immunology, Immunoglobulins, and High Cost Medicines. 

This is a key position within the Medicines Optimisation team to ensure the safe, effective, economic and timely use of immunoglobulins across the Trust and lead the management and monitoring of the MFT Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (SrIAP). 

You will also support the medicines optimisation team in the introduction of medicines onto the Trust formulary through liaison with medical and pharmacy clinical teams for the benefit of patients.

You will need to have excellent communication, organisational, analytical and presentation skills.

Main duties of the job

To lead the development, management and monitoring of the MFT Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (SrIAP) in conjunction with the lead clinician(s) and coordinator in line in line with the Trust Action plan and National targets.

Lead on medication safety initiatives, clinical audit, teaching programmes, and the development of documents and eLearning packages for medical, nursing and pharmacy staff involving treatment with immunoglobulins.

To operate as professional secretary to the Sub-Regional and trust IAPs.
Support the processing of treatment requests to and the recording of decisions, in liaison with the panel coordinator.

Support the processing of treatment requests to and the recording of decisions, in liaison with the panel coordinator.

To oversee the development of the pathway to ensure patients are discussed at the MFT - SrIAP.

To oversee the creation of and present the minimum dataset report required to enable patients to be discussed at the panel.  

Communicate with clinicians from MFT and panel member trusts to obtain treatment data and efficacy outcome measures for immunoglobulin treatment.

Support the process of appeals against decisions made by the MFT-SrIAP.
To ensure that the use of Ig is managed according to National and trust guidelines.

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.