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Senior Pharmacists Band 8a

Manchester Community Response (MCR): South Manchester Locality and Trafford Community Response (TCR)

2 x Permanent Full time posts

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

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust 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’re also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which goes live 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 new Green Plan which will set 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