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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8d
Contract
Permanent: Monday - Friday, 08:45 - 17:00, 45 minutes lunch. Plus additional hours for weekend roster.
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 08:45 - 17:00, 45 minutes lunch. Plus additional hours for weekend roster.)
Job ref
287-DSS-249-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal and Aintree University Hospital sites
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£83,571 - £96,376 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
09/05/2024

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Chief Pharmacist /Head of Hospital Pharmacy Services

Band 8d

Job overview

Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across Liverpool University, Liverpool Women’s and Walton Centre Trusts.

We are looking for two exceptional leaders to inspire and give direction to our Pharmacy Services on our Royal Liverpool and Aintree University Hospital sites. Responsible for clinical and operational services on each of these busy acute hospital sites these roles are ideally suited to candidates who want to extend their experience at a senior management level in a progressive environment.

Working as part of our Senior Leadership Team across all our sites, the successful candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, the desire to network and collaborate and the ability to inspire multi-professional teams.  They must have a strong background in governance and risk management and be motivated by well-managed change across traditional professional boundaries.

They will be a role model for others and have the desire to utilise and develop evidence-based practice to improve pharmacy services across the hospital and in the wider health economy.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Senior Pharmacy Leadership Team the post-holder will ensure compliance with medicines legislation, identify key development priorities, “sell” the vision for service provision to optimise patient care and secure funding as appropriate across a range of departments deputising for the Chief Pharmacist as appropriate.

They will lead, develop, deliver, and evaluate the provision of pharmacy services

The post holder will provide site leadership for MMPS across all clinical and operational services and ensure they are fit for purpose. They are responsible for pharmacy services delivery to these large acute hospitals with multiple complex services, large numbers of wards, outpatient clinics and Accident and Emergency Departments on site. They will also provide day to day advice and supervision for the site leads at Broadgreen and Walton Centre Foundation Trust.

They will effectively support the medicines value programme for the Trusts and the health economy by ensuring that medicines procedures and policies are adhered to and monitored. They will use the Trust risk management framework to escalate risks and concerns as necessary and provide expert professional advice to the Hospital Management Team on all medicines related issues to ensure statutory and clinical responsibilities are met. 

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the Pharmacy Team also provides services to the Walton Centre Foundation Trust and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Joint committees are in operation between LUHFT and partner organisations to support good governance and enhance collaborative opportunities.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job overview, main duties of the job and attached job description for further information about the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Vocational Masters Degree in pharmacy + 1 year pre-registration training and experience.
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification e.g. MSc or diploma (or equivalent vocational experience).
  • Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experiential learning within the NHS.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive post-registration hospital pharmacy management experience at a senior level (8b or 8C) with responsibility for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other associated staff groups.
  • Management experience including recruitment, appraisal, training, leadership, motivation, sickness absence and participation in grievance or disciplinary procedures.
  • Significant experience in project management including major change projects in partnership with other pharmacy services
  • Commitment to deliver services without boundaries
  • Developing and implementing service change
  • Experience of developing business cases for service development, including monitoring of outputs.
  • Significant, relevant and ongoing personal CPD.
Desirable criteria
  • Multidisciplinary health service research
  • Published in a peer reviewed journal

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of national and local priorities and identify best practice
  • Advanced pharmacy knowledge and skills with advanced levels of reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
  • Excellent understanding of legal aspects of medicines management
  • Service improvement methodology to effectively improve and evaluate services
  • Good understanding of Primary / Secondary Care interface issues
  • Awareness of and a commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
  • Knowledge of a range of management topics including, performance capability, disciplinary and financial management, service improvement.
  • Excellent planning, organisation and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pippa Roberts
Job title
Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 2094
Additional information

Please email in the first instance for a prompt reply.

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