Medical Education Pharmacist

We have vacancies in the following sectors. Main area: Medical Education. Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a. Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity Cover). Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (Tues - Fri). Job ref: 349-COR-6704004. Site: Wythenshawe Hospital. Town: Wythenshawe. Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata. Salary period: Yearly. Closing: 31/12/2024 23:59.

Job overview: MFT in partnership with the University of Manchester (UoM) delivers clinical training and experience to approximately 450 medical students at the Wythenshawe Campus. They are attached to the Trust in clinical years 3, 4 and 5 of their undergraduate medical programme.

Main duties of the job:

• To be responsible for the development, management, delivery and evaluation of training programmes in prescribing and therapeutics for 3rd, 4th, and 5th year medical undergraduates based at MFT Wythenshawe Campus.
• To line manage full time Education Fellows.
• To act as a source of expertise advising students, patients, carers, medical staff, nurses and AHPs across the Trust about medicines.
• To line manage Education Fellows in line with Trust HR policies and guidance.

Working for our organisation: MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and 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 and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent.

Detailed job description and main 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.

Diversity Matters: MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce.

Person specification:

• Knowledge of key principles of safe and effective prescribing and the risks associated with poor prescribing.
• Knowledge of national guidance (e.g. NICE), evidence based medicine and prescribing legislation.
• Knowledge of the Medicines Management, Clinical Governance and Modernisation agendas of the NHS.
• Advanced knowledge of medical education agendas and teaching methods.
• Knowledge of training pathway for undergraduate medical students.

• 3 years post registration hospital experience or equivalent documented clinical experience.
• Experience in teaching small and large groups.
• Experience of teaching undergraduate students.
• Experience of curriculum planning and evaluating.
• Experience of performing assessments.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to work as part of a team and influence other grades of staff and professions.
• Proven teaching skills using various methods (e.g. face to face, online).
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload, work accurately under pressure, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to develop services.

• Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy & 1 year pre-registration training.
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience.
• Post graduate Certificate in Education.
• Certificate in Supplementary/ Independent Prescribing.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.