Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Department
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1726
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £78,163 - £88,884 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services and Medicines Governance
Band 8c
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The Imperial pharmacy department has recently revised its leadership team structure to reflect our ambitious and wide ranging medicines optimisation strategy. We are excited to announce a new 8c Associate Chief Pharmacist position within our leadership group, with responsibility for quality and safety, and a number of our specialist pharmacy teams. The role will be extremely rewarding and requires an individual who is experienced in working at a strategic level with a range of stakeholders. The post holder will actively contribute to an already dynamic team to lead on the quality and safety agenda for the pharmacy directorate, as well as supporting medicines governance across the organisation.
Are you committed to making a difference with senior colleagues at a large cutting edge prestigious teaching Trust with a track record in patient safety research and technological innovation? Do you have a passion for assuring the optimal use and safety of medicines? If so - we would be delighted to hear from you.
Interviews will likely be held the week of 25th November.
Main duties of the job
- To lead, manage, maintain, plan and co-ordinate all areas of responsibility (Pharmacy Clinical Services, medicines advisory and governance (MAGS) teams) at Imperial in line with Trust Priorities and Pharmacy strategic objectives.
- To lead on areas related to medicines governance at the Trust, directly supporting the Chief Pharmacist in the assurance of high quality and safe use of medicines at the Trust
- To ensure delivery of high quality services which are patient focussed and consistent across the Trust sites.
- To ensure services are provided in accordance with current regulations, best practice and legal requirements.
- To set standards for services, monitor performance, and ensure that services are provided efficiently and in accordance with the needs of users.
- To develop, train, motivate and encourage staff working within the team and the department as a whole.
- To support the Pharmacy Leadership team in the development, maintenance and implementation of the annual business plans and service strategies for the department.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- GPhC registered Pharmacist
- Mandatory GPHC Professional CPD
- Post Graduate management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- RPS member
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of staff management and management experience within clinical/clinical support services
- Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner-This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary staff in effective learning from incidents and errors
Desirable criteria
- Published research
- Previous experience of chairing multidisciplinary meetings
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Good ability to organise and prioritise work
- Good clinical practice knowledge
- Ability to think strategically and plan future service developments
- A good understanding of national and local priorities
- Ability to identify and manage risks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Champa Mohandas
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
or Mark Evans [email protected] (Deputy Chief Pharmacist).
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