Overview
Detailed job description and main responsibilities. Alongside their corporate responsibilities, the post holder will play a senior leadership role within the pharmacy service. This includes managing risk registers, chairing the Pharmacy Governance Group, overseeing medicines optimisation standards, and driving quality improvement programmes to reduce harm from medicines. They will contribute to strategic planning, business cases, and transformational change initiatives, while supporting the development and delivery of the pharmacy strategy. The role also involves line management responsibilities, leading recruitment of senior staff, performance management, workforce planning and occasionally deputising for the Deputy Chief Pharmacist.
Responsibilities
To view full main responsibilities of role, please see job description attached.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
* Educated to Degree or Masters level in Pharmacy
* Registered Pharmacist (GPhC)
* Postgraduate qualification relevant to hospital pharmacy practice
* Leadership / Management qualification relevant to the NHS or equivalent management qualification or experience
Desirable criteria
* Project management qualification (PRINCE 2 or equivalent)
* Advanced Clinical Skills Course
* Registered Pharmacy non-medical prescriber
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Significant experience in a senior hospital pharmacy management role and medication safety
* Significant experience in both clinical and financial management
* Recent experience of both operational and strategic planning
* Experience of working across the wider health economy including partnership work
* Recent responsibility for managing transformational change programmes
* Familiarity with the Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Programme
* Familiarity with national and local medicine commissioning requirements
* Experience of leading change management processes
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Communication of highly complex information to senior managers, other professionals and patients
* Proven leadership skills
* Able to demonstrate effective management of staff
* Analytical and judgement skills
* Concentration required frequently interrupted with urgent requests
* Acts appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances
* Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and key stakeholders
* Organisational awareness
* Ability to forecast and innovate including long term service planning
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs
* Ability to travel within locality on occasions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Job Description ( PDF, 347.3 KB )
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