Job summary
As the pinnacle of our pharmacy department, you'll have the opportunity to influence patient outcomes by ensuring the safe delivery of top-notch pharmaceutical services. Your expert advice will be crucial to our Executive Board, guiding Clinical Governance and legislative affairs related to medicines and pharmacy services.
As part of this incredible career opportunity you will be:
- Driving the Professional and Clinical Leadership of our pharmacy team and ensuring the Safe Use of Medicines.
- As the Delegated Authority from our Chief Executive, you'll assume responsibility for all aspects of Medicines Optimisation, ensuring compliance with regulators like NICE, General Pharmaceutical Council, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and the Care Quality Commission.
- Being a pillar of Strategy and Transformation, delivering advice that optimises service delivery for the Trust.
- Managing Financial Responsibilities, ensuring the cost-effective use of resources.
- Championing Quality Research, Audit, and Training, guaranteeing quality education and development for all
Are you ready to lead our Pharmaceutical Services to new heights, ensuring they remain safe, efficient, effective, and well-led? Apply today and let's create a healthier future together at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust!
Main duties of the job
As Chief Pharmacist you will be the most senior Pharmacist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) responsible for the safe delivery of a comprehensive, optimised, high quality pharmaceutical service to patients and staff. You will be the expert voice on pharmacy matters to the Executive Board; leading on medicines related Clinical Governance issues, whilst ensuring that regulatory standards and legislation in relation to medicines and pharmacy services are met.
You will provide clinical and professional leadership, quality and risk management and lead the strategic development of the service as well as ensuring maintenance of a research and development framework. You will ensure that the Trust's Pharmacy services are progressive and responsive to internal and external demand, patient focused, safe, efficient, effective and well-led.
You will act as the Trust's Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer as required by the Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2013
About us
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 encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
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.
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- Registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent as approved by General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-graduate qualification relevant to clinical and/or hospital pharmacy practice or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within a hospital pharmacy environment including relevant experience at senior management/immediate sub-board level
- Recent practice (within the last 5 years) in a leadership role within hospital pharmacy as either a Chief Pharmacist of a District General Hospital or Deputy Chief Pharmacist of a teaching hospital
- Experience of developing a positive clinical practice environment, empowering all Pharmacy services to deliver high-quality and safe care
- Experience of operational and staff management in the NHS within Pharmacy Services
- Experience of dealing with conflict and working with colleagues to agree remedial action as required
- Experience of working with executive teams and giving assurance on divisional services
- Recent experience in leading transformational quality improvement project work
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Extensive experience at senior manager/immediate sub-board level necessary to provide confidence in negotiating with senior staff inside and outside the Trust
- Previous experience managing a comprehensive pharmaceutical service
- Highly developed negotiating/influencing skills based on a thorough understanding of the relationships between the clinical and management functions
- Ability to exercise discretion within wide parameters in researching/seeking support for plans to deliver agreed objectives
- Experience of project/programme management
- Good understanding of NHS financial management
- Knowledge of national NHS policy relating to pharmacy
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent as approved by General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-graduate qualification relevant to clinical and/or hospital pharmacy practice or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within a hospital pharmacy environment including relevant experience at senior management/immediate sub-board level
- Recent practice (within the last 5 years) in a leadership role within hospital pharmacy as either a Chief Pharmacist of a District General Hospital or Deputy Chief Pharmacist of a teaching hospital
- Experience of developing a positive clinical practice environment, empowering all Pharmacy services to deliver high-quality and safe care
- Experience of operational and staff management in the NHS within Pharmacy Services
- Experience of dealing with conflict and working with colleagues to agree remedial action as required
- Experience of working with executive teams and giving assurance on divisional services
- Recent experience in leading transformational quality improvement project work
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Extensive experience at senior manager/immediate sub-board level necessary to provide confidence in negotiating with senior staff inside and outside the Trust
- Previous experience managing a comprehensive pharmaceutical service
- Highly developed negotiating/influencing skills based on a thorough understanding of the relationships between the clinical and management functions
- Ability to exercise discretion within wide parameters in researching/seeking support for plans to deliver agreed objectives
- Experience of project/programme management
- Good understanding of NHS financial management
- Knowledge of national NHS policy relating to pharmacy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
