Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: on call, late shifts, weekend and bank holiday working
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (on call, late shifts, weekend and bank holiday working)
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7458587
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital and Bluebell Unit, The Meadows
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Pharmacist - Transfer to Assess/Complex Discharge Services
Band 8a
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Job overview
The successful applicant will be responsible as an advanced specialist for leading and providing safe, efficient and cost-effective clinical pharmacy services to Transfer to Assess and Complex Discharge patients at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
- · To ensure rationalisation of medication particularly for complex patients with polypharmacy, including rationalising medication timing to aid patient concordance for self-managed medication, and to help reduce the number of care calls required for patients with managed medication.
- To liaise with the community health care teams about the patient’s needs including ongoing monitoring requirements
- To provide support and medication advice to other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- To use the skills as a pharmacist prescriber to write discharge prescriptions to meet service needs
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service.
- Co-ordinate with the multidisciplinary teams to identify patients requiring pharmacy input
- To ensure the pharmaceutical service facilitates early discharge where appropriate
- To plan the day-to-day delivery of the pharmacy service to the Bluebell unit.
- To work across traditional boundaries e.g. primary / secondary care to provide seamless care.
- To use the skills as a pharmacist prescriber to write discharge prescriptions to meet service needs
- To participate in the pharmacy departments on call and out of hours pharmacy services rota as and when required.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
‘Before applying for a secondment opportunity please familiarise yourself with the Trust secondment policy (found on the intranet) and ensure that you have discussed and gained approval from your current line manager’
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Postgraduate UK Diploma or higher (MSc or Doctorate) in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent or relevant experience
- Non medical prescribing qualification
- Annotation to the GPhC Pharmacist Register as an independent non-medical prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced level of clinical knowledge
- Evidence of use of clinical IT systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in Clinical Pharmacy services in a UK hospital
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in delivering training.
- Previous experience of working in a clinic setting
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate a good level of verbal and written English.
- • Highly developed communication skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Markham
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 4461
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