Job overview

Are you searching for your opportunity to progress in hospital pharmacy?  Do you want to use your knowledge and experience to deliver excellent patient-centred care? We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our team at North Manchester General Hospital. 

This is a wonderful opportunity to join our supportive team at NMGH - we are digitally advanced with our Hive EPR system across the Trust, and we offer the benefits of working in a large Trust whilst offering the friendly familiarity of a smaller hospital site.

You will work on a rotational basis across a range of clinical specialties, including opportunities in infectious diseases, critical care, paediatrics and neonatology, frailty and intermediate care, obstetrics and gynaecology, acute medicine, cardiology, respiratory, surgery and orthopaedics. You will also have the opportunity to spend time within the medicines information and antimicrobial stewardship teams.  We offer a variety of  education and development opportunities, from weekly learning at lunch sessions to supporting staff with postgraduate qualifications such as non-medical prescribing in accordance with the needs of the service.

We are well connected to Manchester City Centre, with bus and metrolink routes available. Please come and have a look around if you think that we could be your next step - we'd love to talk to you

Please see the job description for more information

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a high quality pharmacy service to allocated clinical areas, ensuring timely and accurate medicines reconciliation on admission, ongoing inpatient monitoring and review in accordance with agreed acuity and complexity requirements, and optimising medications to deliver a safe and appropriate discharge service to patients. They will be expected to actively participate in organisational medicines safety and risk management initiatives, including audit and incident reporting.

The post holder will also be involved in supporting the wider multidisciplinary team in the safe and effective use of medicines, and the promotion of the pharmacy service across the site.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust 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 brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve 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 new Green Plan which will set 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.