Pharmacy Operational Lead

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist or pharmacy technician to lead, manage and act as a role model to all technical and support staff working in the pharmacy and all clinical pharmacists that work in the dispensary.

They will be responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient and effective delivery of all technical and operational aspects of the pharmacy services, within national and local standards, interpreting policies and guidelines (Such as Controlled Drug Regulations, SOPs) in collaboration with the Senior Pharmacy Team.

They have responsibility for the functioning of dispensary, procurement and distribution services in pharmacy.

The post holder reports directly to the Pharmacy Site Manager (FPH) and will deputise as appropriate in various meetings within the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To provide leadership to all pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and support staff within the department.

To take responsibility for policy and service developments with pharmacy, under the direction of the Senior Pharmacy Team.

To provide clinical leadership to all pharmacy technicians/dispensary pharmacists in line with local guidelines, formulary decisions and policies relating to high cost drugs within the Trust.

To take responsibility for all aspects of Health and Safety within pharmacy, including dispensary, stores and pharmacy distribution areas.

To manage staff working within all technical and support roles within pharmacy, including recruitment, appraisal and performance.

To support the Responsible Person for the wholesale dealers license held at the base site.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information please refer to the job description and job specification document for main responsibilities of this role.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable ability to communicate highly complex information, both verbally and in writing to senior managers on all aspects of pharmacy practice
• Demonstrable analytical skills to assimilate complex information and present detailed reports for senior managers in the organisation
• Demonstrable ability to initiate and manage audits and project work
• Demonstrates an appropriate level of clinical reasoning and judgement
• Demonstrable leadership ability and motivational, inspirational and visionary leadership style
• Ability to negotiate with and influence senior pharmacy and medical staff
• Proven ability to deal with conflict and complaints
• Proven ability to contribute to business planning and development of action plans
• Proven ability in proposing, developing and writing departmental and Trust policies
• Proven track record for successful team working
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GPhC Registered
• Accredited Medicines Management Technician/Pharmacist qualification
• Accredited technician checker/Pharmacist qualification
• Knowledge and skills equivalent to post graduate diploma level, specifically to include a sound knowledge of clinical pharmacy and a proven track record of managing teams to high performance levels and through change/ MSc or other level 7 qualification (working towards).
• Management qualification or equivalent Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE) or equivalent experience at a senior level
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Member of RPS / APTUK
• MBA or EGA
• Annotated on GPhC register as Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
• ECDL qualification/ Experience with Pre-Registration training
• Successful completion of a leadership programme (e.g. Mary Seacole).
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification hospital pharmacy practice
• Proven effective management of a team
• Significant experience of working in healthcare in a range of settings and roles
• Experience of service delivery in a service dealing directly with patients, including demonstrable effective customer care services
• Experience of managing staff, including recruitment, appraisal and staff development
• Proven track record of delivering change in practice to short deadlines and to a high standard
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in a major change project at organisation or inter organisation level
• Formal financial training
• Experience of leading on business plan developments with deliverable outcomes
• Budget responsibilities
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of all aspects of hospital pharmacy services, including dispensary, distribution, purchasing, homecare and aseptic services
• Demonstrable professional clinical knowledge to post graduate diploma level
• Proven experience of applying NHS strategy to operational management and good understanding of NHS management and strategy
• Knowledge of budgets and Trust financial systems
• Familiar with the Omnicell automation system or equivalent and automated storage cabinet functionality
• In depth understanding of EPR system
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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