Senior Principal Consultant - Pharmacy and Physiotherapy
Salary: £65,000 + 33 days AL + Private Medical Insurance + GPHc Fees paid + much more!
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Brighton
Are you an experienced Pharmacy Manager looking for a new challenge?
Want to work for an inclusive company that values your wellbeing and development?
Are you dedicated and patient-focused looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference in the healthcare industry?
Compass Associates is proud to be working with one of the UK’s most exciting private hospital groups. We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Manager to lead the pharmacy services across the hospital, with a specialist focus on oncology.
You’ll lead a dedicated team, drive safe and effective medicines management, and ensure the highest standards of patient care across departments including Oncology, Theatres, Wards, and Outpatients.
You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager it is important that you will be confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients.
Benefits
* Competitive salary up to £65,000
* 25 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday
* Enhanced pension scheme
* Private medical insurance
* Online GP
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
What you’ll do:
* Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments are safe, cost‑effective and legal and are supported by up‑to‑date policies, procedures and guidelines.
* Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation.
* Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
* As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital‑acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up‑to‑date policies and guidelines.
* Ensure the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra‑indications to treatment; ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines.
* Assist and lead the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge, and facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
* Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
* Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
* Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
* Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines‑focused training upon request.
What we’re looking for:
* Must be a qualified pharmacist with substantial post‑registration experience.
* Proven managerial experience within a clinical or hospital pharmacy setting is essential.
* Candidates should have a strong track record of leading teams, managing pharmacy operations, and contributing to service development.
* Demonstrable experience in oncology pharmacy is required.
* Candidates must have worked as a Level 2 SACT pharmacist in accordance with BOPA standards.
* Experience should include hands‑on involvement in chemotherapy preparation, patient management, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
* Passion for delivering outstanding patient care.
Location
This Hospital is located in Brighton and is commutable from Hove, Eastbourne, Peacehaven, Woodingdean, Falmer, Lewes, Hassocks, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath.
References
Compass Associates are working in partnership on this position. If you are not interested, but know someone who is, we offer £200 vouchers for each successful recommendation.
If you are interested in the position, please contact Natasha on 02392 417 107 or alternatively, you can email at nisaac@compassltd.co.uk.
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