Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist - Medicines Information

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our vibrant, forward thinking Medicines Optimisation service.

The role involves leading the delivery of the Trust's Medicines Information Service, including the day-to-day management of the busy enquiry-answering service, as well as supporting the wider medicines optimisation and clinical teams in the pharmacy department with medicines information.

It is essential that you can analyse highly complex sensitive information relating to medicines and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ideally, you will have knowledge of how a Medicines Information service runs and have good critical appraisal skills. Furthermore, candidates should have influencing, negotiation and problem-solving skills.

A key part of the role will be promotion and evolution of the MFT Medicines Information service as part of the MFT single service across the multiple MFT sites.

To deliver this, you will work in close collaboration with the wider paediatric and adult clinical teams, professional secretaries of the paediatric and adult medicines management committees, medical and nursing colleagues, and UKMI, supported by the Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist.

As part of this role, within this large teaching hospital, you will be involved in education and training of staff. You must be able to work on your own initiative, but also within a team and be capable of recognising your own limitations. A broad clinical knowledge is essential. As part of a team which constantly drives safety and quality improvement, you will be encouraged to demonstrate your initiative, get involved with research, and identify areas for service development and promotion, Disability Confident
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MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 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.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll 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 you'll 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 atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.