Site Lead Pharmacist/Pharmacy Manager

Site Lead Pharmacist/Pharmacy Manager

Southampton, SO14 0YG

Full Time, Permanent 37.5 hours per week

Our client is one of the UK’s largest independent sector healthcare providers, and they provide a range of innovative and expert healthcare services to the NHS, privately paid and insurance patients. With their own network of private hospitals nationwide and expert clinicians and surgeons within, they deliver more than 50 surgical services from orthopaedics, ophthalmology, gynaecology, oral, spinal, weight-loss to undertaking their own diagnostics and medical imaging. They are an award-winning secondary care provider and a hospital group recognised for providing the highest level of quality, specialist secondary healthcare and excellent patient outcomes for over 50,000 patients each year.

Due to expanding their Pharmacy operations in their Southampton Hospital, they are recruiting for a Site Lead Pharmacist/Pharmacy Manager right now!

The role of Pharmacy Manager: -

As the Site Lead Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Manager you will be the most senior clinical pharmacist on site, leading, delivering, developing, managing, and evaluating the clinical pharmacy services for the Southampton hospital, Urgent Treatment Care (UTC) and affiliated departments.

Reporting to the Head of Clinical Services, you will: -

• Lead an onsite, permanent Pharmacy team of 6 to include Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and a Pharmacy Assistant, co-ordinate rotas, staffing levels and monitor the delivery of an exemplary and patient focused pharmacy service in accordance with all current legislation, to ensure safe levels of staffing.
• Support the Senior Site Management and National Director of Pharmacy in setting the strategic direction and developing the infrastructure for the delivery of a high-quality patient focused and progressive clinical pharmacy service to the site and affiliated departments.
• Establish and maintain robust clinical governance arrangements (risk management, guidelines, policies, audits, etc) for all aspects of medicines management within the site and affiliates departments.
• Be responsible for the pharmacy services on a day-to-day basis, ensure that the clinical ward and dispensary cover are managed efficiently and that all of reporting staff are aware of their roles and responsibilities and deliver effectively.
• Act as a role model and the site most senior pharmacist; provide advice and support to consultants, other clinicians and patients ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines.
• Collaborate on a multidisciplinary level, to help us deliver an efficient, high quality and patient focused healthcare service.

What you will bring to the role: -

With your current registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), you will also have:

• Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Worked at a Pharmacy Manager, Site Lead Pharmacist, or similar management level ideally in Hospital Pharmacy, Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy Management or Secondary Care Senior Pharmacist. A Pharmacy Manager in Primary Care or Community Pharmacy would also be considered with the people or Pharmacy Management expertise.
• Independent prescribing qualification is advantageous or willing to work towards a qualification.
• Extensive Pharmacy management experience at a senior level within clinical pharmacy services is essential.
• Strong people management skills with demonstrable experience of supervision, training, appraisal, and workforce development.
• Experience in managing pharmacy services including medicines management, service development, KPI reporting and assurance.

The benefits

• An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
• 25 days annual leave (increasing with service) plus bank holidays.
• This is a great job with a high level of exposure to the Chief Pharmacist, CEO and COO, you will have the ability to influence and work at a strategic level you wouldn’t necessarily be able to have, acting as part of the Senior Pharmacy Leadership Team from the offset.
• The support you need to grow in your role and continue your professional development – there are great promotional prospects within the Company.
• You will also work within modern, safe, clean hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment and the latest technology with a peer group of esteemed surgeons, professors, nurses, and theatre staff. It truly is a wonderful place to work and collaborate with some of the best clinicians in the UK. There is a high functioning outpatient and physio team, all working together as one.
• There is no Emergency Department or Trauma Ward, and because all surgery is elective and planned, there are always plenty of beds, so the surgical lists run smoothly as scheduled day in, day out. The clinical work is consistent, and the hospital environment is a very relaxed, calm space as a result. The hospitals are all very airy, spacious, light, and clean.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and have a full and clean driving license.