Job summary
Employer heading
Deputy Chief Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The Deputy Chief Pharmacist will support strategic direction and ambitions set by the Chief Pharmacist. They will provide strong leadership to the pharmacy workforce and ensure effective and safe operational management of pharmacy services.
They will support the Chief Pharmacist on the development, delivery and performance management of a comprehensive Medicines Optimisation strategy for the NLFT. They will hold joint responsibility for the pharmacy workforce and budgets. They will deputise for the Chief Pharmacist when required in undertaking the statutory roles and responsibilities of the Chief Pharmacist according to all applicable legislation and standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council. They will be responsible for the safe and effective medicines management across the partnership and continuous improvement in medicines optimisation as an integral part of the Clinical Strategy.
Main duties of the job
· To lead, develop, deliver and evaluate pharmacy services
· To deputise for the Chief Pharmacist and CD Accountable Officer in their absence.
· Assist and support the Chief Pharmacist in planning and managing all aspects of Trust Pharmacy Services (budgets and staff) to enable the Trust to deliver clinically effective services.
· To be an active member of the senior pharmacy leadership team with allocated corporate responsibilities.
· Provide leadership and maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation, which includes requirements specified by CQC, NICE, GPhC and NHSE.
· Be responsible for providing input and delivering the Trust Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
· Improve and embed quality systems and processes using QI methodology.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
· We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
· NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
· Excellent internal staff network
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
· We Are Kind
· We Are Respectful
· We Work Together
· We Keep Things Simple
· We Empower
· We Are Proudly Diverse
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description attached for full details of the role and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC registered Pharmacist
- Clinical post graduate masters degree or equivalent
- Formal Management or leadership qualification
Desirable criteria
- RPS faculty membership
Leadership Experience
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy and NHS management experience
- Variety of experience in pharmacy practice (including recent experience at a senior level (8c or above)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering service change
Clinical governance experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy experience
- Evidence of working in clinical governance framework
Desirable criteria
- Training in one or more specialist pharmacy area for example mental health or education and training
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
- Lucy Reeves
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07973774375
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