This role offers supported learning in all aspects of Women’s & Children’s pharmacy services in a friendly tertiary hospital.
Rotations are 9 months across a varied range specialties.
Each rotation is supported by senior specialist pharmacists.
No prior Women's or Children's pharmacy service experience is required; we welcome applicants from all pharmacy backgrounds.
This role is predominantly patient facing and there are no on call duties.
Our structured training is designed to support progression and completion of the competency portfolio, allowing progression to a band 7 role.
If you are a band 6 applicant, we will support your development to progress to a band 7 role following completion of the competency portfolio.
The person recruited to this post will join a friendly team of rotational pharmacists who provide services across St Mary's and Royal Manchester Children's hospital on the Oxford road site.
Main duties for this role include:
1. Reviewing patient treatments using our EPR system (also known as HIVE).
2. Timely and appropriate supply of medication.
3. Timely and appropriate medicines reconciliation for newly admitted patients.
4. Opportunity to be involved with guideline development, finance review, medicines optimisation, clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement projects.
5. Attending weekly teaching sessions provided by pharmacy and clinical specialties.
6. Participating in person and virtual ward rounds reviewing and optimising patients' treatment.
7. Undergoing training relating to complex treatments e.g. parenteral nutrition and chemotherapy.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and 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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Khadija Mansoorali
Job title: Paediatric Mental Health Pharmacist
Email address: khadija.mansoorali@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 701 2205
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