Senior Pharmacists Band 8a Manchester Community Response (MCR): South Manchester Locality and Trafford Community Response (TCR) Permanent Full time post Community Medicines Optimisation Services (CMOS), Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisations (LCO)

Are you searching for rewarding patient facing work and keen to use your medicines knowledge and clinical experience to make a real difference in our local community? This is an exciting time to be part of the South Manchester MCR and Trafford TCR, Crisis Response and Discharge To Assess. The services support local residents to remain in their own homes and out of hospital, by responding skilled multidisciplinary teams, to referrals from health or social care professionals and the ambulance service.

The CMOS team is a friendly team located in the community, ensuring our patients are supported to get the very best from their medicines. Although community based, the team work closely with the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) Pharmacy Department. As such we benefit from working for a large, forward-thinking department, including access to training programmes and excellent career-development opportunities.

You must have a substantial amount of hospital or primary care experience, be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and have a post-graduate clinical qualification. You will also need to have access to a car for work purposes.

Main duties of the job

Lead and oversee the medicines optimisation support to TCR/South Manchester MCR including, CRISIS response and Discharge To Assess(D2A) services for patients at home.

Supervise pharmacists and technicians working in MCR/TCR

Work in the MCR/TCR multidisciplinary team to:

o Provide better co-ordinated care to patients

o Reduce hospital re-admissions

o Improve medicines safety

o Improve medicines compliance

Deputise for senior pharmacists in the Community Medicines Optimisation Service where appropriate.

Support the development of good practice and safe medicines management across LCO and its partner organisations

Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy knowledge and medicines advice to LCO staff and partner organisations, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease treatment

Work as an Independent Prescriber in MCR/TCR

Develop and implement medicines management policies and procedures to support safe and cost-effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics

Lead on new service developments and medicines optimisation projects

Support the delivery of a medicines optimisation service to other Community Medicines Optimisation Service work-streams when required

Support the delivery of our medicines training to LCO staff

Participate in any new arrangements that may involve flexible working e.g. extended hours or 7-day service

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts 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 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

• Member of General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber

Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Pre-registration training and successful completion of relevant examination
• Relevant clinical diploma / post-graduate qualification (or working towards this qualification) or evidence of equivalent clinical experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

• A significant amount of post qualification experience in a relevant role practicing as a pharmacist
• Demonstrable experience of supervising other staff
• Excellent communication (written)
• Demonstrable commitment to CPD
• Experience of investigation of medicines related incidents
• Demonstrable experience of training and support of pharmacists/other staff groups

Desirable

• Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services in hospital
• Experience and knowledge of developing guidelines /protocols
• Experience of developing and implementing change
• Experience of providing prescribing advice to general practice
• Experience of working with primary care prescribing systems (e.g. EMIS)

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community

Manchester

M12 6JH

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