Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Cardiothoracic Transplant

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Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Cardiothoracic Transplant

The closing date is 10 November 2025

An exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Directorate Lead Pharmacist to join the team at the Wythenshawe site of Manchester Foundation Trust. During this 2 year fixed term role you will be responsible for developing a high quality, patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the Cardiothoracic transplant out patient department. You will contribute to the medicine's optimisation and medicines governance agenda across the MFT wide Cardiac division, and support the Cardiothoracic in patient ward when necessary.

The transplant service offers heart and lung transplant operations to patients from the whole of the North West of England and beyond. We have a specialist heart and lung transplant ward, as well as a dedicated out patient service overseeing all of our transplant patients and providing on going specialist medications via our out patient pharmacy. MFT is one of only two centres in the UK to provide heart and lung surgery, transplant, and specialised respiratory ECMO (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation) under one roof.

This is an excellent post for a pharmacist who is looking to become fully immersed in a specialist clinical MDT and wants to make a difference to patient care. You will develop your leadership and management skills and demonstrate your ability to innovate and implement change. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist with experience of cardiothoracic transplant patients.

Main duties of the job

To deliver a high quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service to Cardiothoracic transplant patients and to establish effective relationships with clinical staff and other stakeholders delivering care to our service users.

To promote the responsible, safe, clinically effective and cost effective use of medicines within the division.

To support education and development of medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in your role as Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Cardiothoracic transplant.

You will develop your leadership and management skills within Pharmacy, and as a senior member of the Cardiac Services Pharmacy Team, will be expected to deputise for the Divisional Lead Pharmacist when required.

You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of a team whilst also managing your own workload. You must be able to manage and motivate others and have the ability to influence the multidisciplinary team and engage with key stakeholders.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn 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 each year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 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 & drive 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, protect your health and wellbeing and shape the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification Qualifications

• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy
• 1 year pre registration training and experience
• Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience
• Member of Faculty/ RPS.
• Member of National/ International Specialist Organisation.
• Completion of the Independent Prescribing Course.
• Completion of postgraduate qualification in relevant specialist field
• Evidence of management training.

Knowledge/Experience

• Professional knowledge acquired through the vocational masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
• Significant post qualification experience in a relevant role practicing as a pharmacist
• Current and relevant clinical knowledge in area of speciality
• Demonstrable excellent team working.
• Demonstrable commitment to CPD.
• Demonstrable experience in training of specialist pharmacists and other healthcare professionals
• . Audit and research experience
• Demonstrable experience of problem solving
• Financial awareness in the management of drug budgets.
• Awareness of current political agendas.
• To have demonstrable pride in their work and for the pharmacy profession
• Proven record of successful management of a specialist pharmacist team.
• Demonstrable experience of service transformation.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting a professional multidisciplinary meeting or committee

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata