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Specialist Acute & General Medicine Pharmacist Band 7 – Oxford Road Campus

There is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Medicine Pharmacy Team at Manchester University Foundation Trust Pharmacy team at Oxford Road Campus.

Our vision is to improve the health and quality of life of our diverse population by building an organisation that:

• Excels in quality, safety, patient experience, research, innovation and teaching
• Attracts, develops and retains great people
• Is recognised internationally as a leading healthcare provide

Main duties of the job

As the successful candidate you will be part of the friendly and supportive  Medicine Pharmacy team, providing a clinical pharmacy service with directorate responsibilities to a variety of medical specialties. You will be at the forefront of the development of our clinical service. During your training you will rotate through our many medical specialist/tertiary level services. Excellent communication skills are key, as you will be working with our diverse population, and with many different clinical teams. This post is based at Oxford Road Campus. Areas covered by medicine pharmacists at Oxford Road include: 

• Respiratory including MDRTB
• Acute Medical Unit
• Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Elderly Care
• Frailty including acute frailty unit
• Stroke and rehab
• General medicine

We look forward to appointing pharmacists who are GPhC registered, have previous hospital experience, have a clinical diploma or are due to complete the first year, and have the necessary skills to work in our clinical service in one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the UK.

Working for our organisation

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.