Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Pharmacist to join the Women's and Children's (W&C) team working at MFT on the Oxford Road Campus. The W&C service is part of the MFT Specialist Hospitals Clinical Group, delivering tertiary level specialist care to a wide range of specialities and patient groups. Developing expert professional knowledge in Paediatric Rheumatology and Dermatology specialities, you will deliver a high-quality, patient focused, clinical pharmacy service to both inpatient and outpatient service users.

We encourage you to apply if you have a passion for W&C services, and have previous experience working in a specialist clinical area.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the provision of a high quality comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to your area of responsibility ensuring safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in often complex patients.
• To be responsible for clinical governance in your area of responsibility including: horizon scanning, new drug submissions, guideline development, risk management and audit.
• To be the highly specialist clinical pharmacist within your area of responsibility, advising and educating pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals on all aspects of medicines management.
• To provide clinical and professional supervision of junior pharmacists, technicians, assistant technical officers and students.
• To line manage a limited number of band 6 and/or 7 pharmacists.
• To be responsible for the safe day to day operations within your areas of responsibility.
• To deputise for the Lead Clinical and Directorate pharmacist in your area of responsibility.
• To be involved in the strategic planning and development of specialist services in line with local and national objectives within your areas of responsibility.