Hospital at Home Lead Pharmacist

Hospital at Home Lead Pharmacist Band 8a Permanent, Part time 22.5 hours, Lead and oversee the medicines optimisation support to Hospital at Home (H@H)

Supervise pharmacists and technicians working in H@H

Work in the H@H 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 lead 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 H@H

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 (CMOS) 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.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team in developing the Hospital at Home and Medicines case management services across Manchester

We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to promote innovative ways of working and positively contribute to local residents remaining in their own homes. You should be confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills as well as advanced clinical knowledge.

The successful candidate will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning CMOS team in providing an advanced patient facing pharmaceutical service in working closely with pharmacy teams and other services across MFT

You must be registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist, hold a post graduate clinical diploma or equivalent and have substantial hospital or primary care experience. Ideally, you will be an Independent Prescriber or at least working towards achieving this.

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust 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 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