Job overview

Are you passionate about transforming patient care? Ready for a role that challenges, inspires, and rewards you? This could be your perfect opportunity!

Due to investment, we are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our pharmacy team, supporting Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and Hospital @ Home within Salford. 

As a senior pharmacist you will work alongside consultant microbiologists, acute physicians, specialist nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective, patient-centred therapy.

You will join the trustwide Antimicrobial Pharmacy Team to support antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities / workstreams within relevant areas.

You will also work alongside our existing Hospital @ Home pharmacist to oversee and coordinate the H@H pharmacy clinical service, encompassing new ways of working, providing pharmaceutical care to respiratory, cardiology and frailty patients.

You will be responsible for developing pathways and guidelines, ensuring seamless care across primary and secondary settings.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and a passion for clinical pharmacy.

The successful candidate will be provided with support from an experienced pharmacy team, as well as opportunities for personal growth and career development.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities will include

·       Service development and delivery, in line with national and local guidance

·       Participating in MDT and Consultant Ward rounds

·       Clinical pharmacy reviews of patients, virtually or face to face within the home environment, utilising your independent prescribing qualification as necessary

·       Ensuring safe practice and development of guidelines and procedures

·       Providing leadership on the use of medicines

·       Education and training of staff on safe and appropriate use and prescribing of medicines

• Work with key stakeholders across the interface of care to support with medicines related initiatives
• Support the delivery of other community medicines optimisations workstreams when required

 You will need access to a car for work purposes and a clean driver’s licence, as the role involves travel between bases and home visits.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.  

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack.