Deputy Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager - Medicine Lead

Job overview

We have an exciting, challenging and rewarding opportunity to join our senior pharmacy team as Deputy Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager and Lead Pharmacist for Medicine. This is your chance to make tangible and sustainable improvements that really make patient care and clinical pharmacy better.

We are looking for an enthusiastic leader to manage and develop clinical pharmacy services to the medicine division which includes our front door.

The Pharmacy Department at the Great Western Hospital is at the heart of the Trust’s programme to move forward and transform itself.  By embracing technology, diversity, new ways of working and an improvement mindset built into all of us, Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services are at the heart of patient care.

We have a clear vision for the future of Pharmacy service as part our fully integrated healthcare system.

Main duties of the job

We want you to inspire our diverse and highly skilled team of clinical pharmacy staff and play a key leadership role in the Trust, and wider care systems, in delivering our vision of medicines optimisation.

To support you in your role, at GWH Pharmacy we value a culture that is positive, compassionate, and inclusive. We have an environment where we learn, improve, and celebrate our work as one team that is fully focused around providing the very best care.

This is a challenging role, but an exciting one.  It’s a time of change for the NHS and this is an opportunity to help shape the future of pharmacy clinical service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We need you to be a resilient, credible leader that shares our values and has a passion for delivering the very best Pharmacy services. You will need to bring your depth of experience, a proven track record in service delivery and show how you have been able to raise the profile of Pharmacy. The main duties of the role include:

To be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to medicine.

Meet with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager to assist with the strategic planning and staffing requirements of the clinical service.

To be responsible for the development of a strategic plan for pharmacy service to medicine including front door.

To monitor workload and, in discussion with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager review the allocation of pharmacy staff to in-patient wards and clinical specialities.

Investigate medicine incidents in agreed specialty or specialties and ensure processes are in place to develop learning from these incidents.

To be responsible for the production, implementation and updating of protocols, guidelines, policies for patients in agreed specialty or specialties in line with best clinical practice, network, and national guidance.

To participate in meetings and working groups for agreed specialty or specialties, both locally and for the wider clinical network relating to the development and maintenance of clinical services or policies as determined by changing need or local national directives.

To attend and advise Trust committees, internal and external audits as required providing advice to medical staff on medicines usage and expenditure.

To participate in the pharmacy bank holiday, flexible working weekend, and evening rotas, as required to meet the needs of the service

To be/ become an Independent Prescriber (IP) and to continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within the Trust

Act as an advanced practitioner for agreed specialty or specialties, to plan the care and identify areas of concern related to medicine use in a specialty.

Assist in clinical decision making.

Provides information to agreed specialty or specialties and finance in relation to drug spend including identifying causes and potential impact of over-spend.

To lead and line manage a team of Clinical and Non-clinical Pharmacy staff that are responsible for clinical pharmacy service.

Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters

Responsible for an individual’s development on the job performance management. Work in conjunction with line managers and other job managers to assess and manage confidential information about an individual’s performance and capability development

Manage the induction and training of pharmacists undertaking on call service.

Plan and deliver training to pharmacy and other clinical staff on issues related to specialty or specialties

To act as a specialist practitioner and role model for junior staff

To train, supervise and assess all pharmacy staff including trainee pharmacists providing a ward/clinical pharmacy service to wards.

To be a postgraduate tutor (trainee pharmacist, or diploma) for pharmacy staff as required