Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 370-PST8cPHA-524
- Employer
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warrington (but will require some travel to Halton site)
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/09/2024
Employer heading
Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team to lead the pharmacy clinical services delivered to our patients.
We are looking for an exceptional leader to inspire and give direction to an enthusiastic and dedicated clinical pharmacy team.
As a registered professional and an experienced leader, the post holder will have the motivation and enthusiasm to review and develop services and to inspire multi-professional teams to achieve their goals and objectives. An ability to influence, negotiate and network with pharmacy professionals and the wider healthcare team, both within and outside the organisation, is essential.
Main duties of the job
- Leading the development and maintenance of a clear strategy for the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to optimise and enhance the quality of medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care provided to our patients.
- Ensuring that clinical pharmacy services are delivered to a high quality, in a safe and cost-effective manner in accordance with relevant legislation and national guidance.
- Monitoring the quality of clinical pharmacy services through a programme of clinical audit, pharmacy practice research and service evaluation.
- Identifying the education and training needs of the clinical pharmacy team, in conjunction with the E&T pharmacist, to ensure that robust training mentoring and development opportunities are in place to allow the pharmacy team to grow.
- Recruitment and management of staff working with the clinical pharmacy team.
- Maintaining an area of clinical practice and highly specialist expert knowledge through delivery of 2 sessions of clinical activity per week.
Working for our organisation
The pharmacy department provides inpatient and outpatient dispensing services to both Warrington and Halton Hospitals. We also provide clinical pharmacy services to two local Hospices, and a pharmaceutical supply function to several external organisations. There has been significant funding in our dispensaries on both sites, with new BD Vmax dispensing robots installed on both sites, the first time automation has been deployed at the Halton site, and funding has been approved to refresh our aseptic unit.
The department has close working relationships with local healthcare partners including local PCNs for pharmacist and pharmacy technician training posts, as well as hosting the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside virtual ward pharmacy team.
We are proud of our approach to developing our team, supporting staff who are keen to undertake further learning and qualifications to develop their skills and knowledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the roles and responsibilities, please consult the job description.
The successful candidate will be based at Warrington Hospital, but will be required to travel to Halton Hospital as required for service needs.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-registration experience working in NHS hospital pharmacy service(s)
- Management of a team delivering one or more aspect of a pharmacy service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing the pharmacy service delivered to a division or clinical business unit
- Published articles in relevant journals
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-graduate diploma in field of clinical pharmacy practice
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
- Leadership and Management qualification
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Risk management qualification
Specific role requirements
Essential criteria
- Excellent written communication
Mental effort
Essential criteria
- Ability to concentrate for prolonged periods to ensure accuracy of work when reviewing and checking prescriptions
- Ability to manage an unpredictable workload with frequent interruptions
Physical skills
Essential criteria
- IT literate, able to use Microsoft Office programmes, including Outlook, Word, Excel
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use advanced functions on Excel (formula, pivot tables, macros, look ups) when reviewing and analysing large data sets
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking, leading, and supervising clinical audit, pharmacy practice research and/ or service evaluation
- Experience of designing and delivering education and training sessions for multi-disciplinary audiences
- Experience of managing and implementing change
- Experience of staff management (including recruitment, attendance management, performance management, annual appraisals)
Skills, knowledge and comptencies
Essential criteria
- Advanced level clinical knowledge
- Leadership skills and knowledge
- Knowledge of pharmacy legislation and national standards for pharmacy services, and the wider NHS agenda relating to medicines optimisation
- Training, mentoring and/or coaching skills
- Influencing and negotiation skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of human factors
Specific role requirements
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm for the role
- Able to develop good working relationships and empathy with staff
- Ability to work using own initiative or as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to present to large audiences
- Analytical, logical and good at problem solving
- Ability to identify and manage risk
- Ability to implement research findings into practice
Emotional effort
Essential criteria
- Ability to support staff during difficult and stressful situations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Mooney
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 662600
- Additional information
Informal discussions / visits to the department are encouraged before applying.
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