Job overview

The Women’s and Children’s Pharmacy Team at MFT has a great opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and organised specialist pharmacist to join our neurosciences, surgical and critical care clinical pharmacy team. This role will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, and will provide clinical pharmacy support to patients, families and staff. We are seeking a pharmacist who is passionate, dedicated, and motivated to learn about this area. In this role you will supported by the Lead Paediatric Critical Care, Theatres and Surgery Pharmacist, the wider neurosciences team and the pharmacy team as a whole.

This is a training role depending on experience will depend on whether you are offered a 7 to 8a progressional role or the 8a role.

Main duties of the job

 As part of a tertiary paediatric neurosciences multidisciplinary team with strong, well-established links with pharmacy, you will be responsible for providing care to patients with complex epilepsy, acquired brain injury and neuroinflammatory conditions.

In addition you will play a key role in the delivery of novel treatments for neuromuscular and neurometabolic conditions including gene and enzyme replacement therapies.

We are also one of only four centres in England providing specialist epilepsy surgery and surgical management of neurovascular diseases and brain tumours.

Working within the Women’s and Children’s pharmacy team can offer you support in developing your expertise and skills through formal training courses, mentoring and regular appraisals. We have a wealth of clinical knowledge in a wide range of specialities, with a strong team of senior pharmacists. We have excellent links with University of Manchester, CPPE and a variety of clinical national networks.

As a senior member of our Women’s and Children’s pharmacy team you can nurture and develop your leadership, education and training skills to line manage, mentor and train rotational pharmacists, technicians, and clinical colleagues.

This is an ideal opportunity to develop your career as part of a supportive and forward-thinking team.

Working for our organisation

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.