Clinical Pharmacist for Infectious Diseases

6 days ago


Greater Manchester, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Infectious Diseases

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Pharmacist to join the Infectious Diseases team working at North Manchester General Hospital. You will deliver a high-quality, patient-focused, clinical pharmacy service to inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases service users.

The ID service at NMGH is a regional specialist centre, and delivers care to a wide range of patient groups. In addition to an inpatient infectious diseases unit, we also provide outpatient clinic services, homecare services and outreach services to ensure access to our varied and often complex cohort of service users, including the largest cohort of HIV patients outside London/South East England, and one of the largest Hepatitis C treatment centres in England.

Main duties of the job

To deliver a high-quality patient-focused clinical pharmacy service for infectious diseases and to establish effective relationships with clinical staff and other stakeholders delivering inpatient and outpatient care to our service users.

You will develop your leadership and management skills within Pharmacy, and as a senior member of the ID Pharmacy Team will be expected to deputise for the Lead Pharmacist when required.

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 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. 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;

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.

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.

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. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Person SpecificationRegistration
  • Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
  • Member of National/International Specialist Organisation in area of responsibility
Qualifications
  • Vocational Masters degree (or equivalent) in Pharmacy
  • One year pre-registration Training
  • Successful completion of pre-registration examination
  • Independent non-medical prescribing qualification
  • Attendance at relevant conferences and training courses
Knowledge and Experience
  • Extensive experience in hospital pharmacy in a clinical role
  • Experience of specialist hospital pharmacy services or experience in the area of responsibility
  • Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
  • Sound clinical knowledge and understanding
  • Research experience
  • Awareness of current Government, Trust and local policies
  • Previous experience in delivering training and education
  • Experience of covering intensive care or high dependency patients
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Experience in delivering training and education
Skills
  • Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills particularly with respect to use of medicines in complex situations
  • Able to lead and act on own initiative (assertive)
  • Able to organise, prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Able to work as part of a team
  • Good oral and written communication skills
  • Organised and methodical approach to work
  • Enthusiastic and self-motivated and ability to motivate others
  • Able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems
  • An advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
  • Able to recognise limitations
  • Basic computer skills
  • Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
  • Numeracy and literacy
  • Experience of evaluating financial information related to use of medicines
  • Demonstration of innovation
  • Able to delegate authority appropriately
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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.


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