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Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full Time
Up To £65,000 Per Annum Dependent On Experience
37.5 hours per week
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The Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital are seeking an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Manager to lead our pharmacy services with a specialist focus on oncology. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader who is passionate about delivering high‑quality patient care and advancing oncology pharmacy practice.
Responsibilities
* Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up‑to‑date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
* Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation.
* Lead, motivate and effectively manage the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
* Act as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimising the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up‑to‑date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
* 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.
Qualifications and Experience
* Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting).
* Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology (essential).
* Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
* Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
* Awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.
* Share evidence‑based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
* The ability to make decisions and use initiative.
* Strong communication skills.
* Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding environment, including emotionally challenging situations.
Benefits
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.
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