Job summary
Are you an experienced logistics, warehouse or supply chain leader looking for a role where your decisions genuinely matter?
Due to the reorganisation of the service, we are looking for a Pharmacy Stores & Logistics Manager to lead a large, complex, Trust wide medicines supply operation across the organisation. This is a high impact leadership role managing people, systems and stock, ensuring patients receive the right medicines, in the right place, at the right time -- every day.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast paced operational environment, enjoys leading large teams, and has a strong background in logistics, warehousing, retail supply or distribution, whether inside or outside the NHS.
Experience in pharmacy is not essential, as we are particularly keen to hear from candidates with strong logistics or warehouse management experience.
You'll bring:
- Significant experience leading teams in a warehouse, logistics, retail or supply environment
- Proven operational leadership in a busy, high volume service
- Strong understanding of health & safety, COSHH and operational compliance
- Confidence managing staffing, rotas, performance, sickness and change
- Excellent communication skills -- able to lead, influence and motivate
- A pragmatic, organised and solutions focused mindset
Main duties of the job
As the senior operational lead for Pharmacy Stores, you will:
- Lead and manage a large team of pharmacy assistants across two major hospital sites
- Oversee the pharmacy stores and distribution service, ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant supply of medicines
- Be the key decision maker for daily operations, staffing, stock control and service continuity
- Drive service improvement, efficiency and integration across pharmacy stores and clinical services
- Own and develop SOPs, processes and training programmes, ensuring compliance with safety, legal and professional standards
- Manage recruitment, performance, training, rotas and wellbeing of your teams
- Ensure effective stock control, condition monitoring, waste reduction and stock turnover
- Work closely with senior pharmacy and clinical leaders to meet performance targets and support patient care
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Act as the key decision maker and manage a multidisciplinary staffing resource and the daily activity of the Trust wide pharmacy stores service
- To manage the pharmacy stores and distribution services FH & RVI by providing direction to all grades of staff
- To contribute to the review of Trust pharmacy services, to improve efficiency and establish greater integration
- To take the lead on ensuring the delivery of agreed performance targets
- To oversee the initiation and implementation of comprehensive competency-based training programmes and assessment of multidisciplinary staff within the Pharmacy Stores Service
- Develop and review all Pharmacy Stores Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure that health and safety, pharmaceutical issues and legal aspects are of a high standard
- To act as the recruitment manager and chair for interview panels for the recruitment of staff into the Pharmacy Store
- In collaboration with the stores team leads, ensure adequate pharmaceutical stock levels are maintained for wards and departments throughout the trust and:o The service delivers an effective operationo Pharmaceutical products are in good conditionoWaste is minimised within the pharmacy storeo An agreed stock turnover is maintained
Interview Date Wednesday 03 June 202637 Hours 30 Minutes/WeekYou will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Act as the key decision maker and manage a multidisciplinary staffing resource and the daily activity of the Trust wide pharmacy stores service
- To manage the pharmacy stores and distribution services FH & RVI by providing direction to all grades of staff
- To contribute to the review of Trust pharmacy services, to improve efficiency and establish greater integration
- To take the lead on ensuring the delivery of agreed performance targets
- To oversee the initiation and implementation of comprehensive competency-based training programmes and assessment of multidisciplinary staff within the Pharmacy Stores Service
- Develop and review all Pharmacy Stores Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure that health and safety, pharmaceutical issues and legal aspects are of a high standard
- To act as the recruitment manager and chair for interview panels for the recruitment of staff into the Pharmacy Store
- In collaboration with the stores team leads, ensure adequate pharmaceutical stock levels are maintained for wards and departments throughout the trust and:o The service delivers an effective operationo Pharmaceutical products are in good conditionoWaste is minimised within the pharmacy storeo An agreed stock turnover is maintained
Interview Date Wednesday 03 June 202637 Hours 30 Minutes/WeekYou will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level/or hold an NVQ Level 4 in Management or have equivalent knowledge and experience in a management role
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Health and Safety assessor qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of a supply service environment i.e. retail, NHS, warehousing
- Working knowledge of current COSHH and Health and Safety Legislation
- Significant experience working in a goods-in/warehouse/retail environment
- Experience of leading and managing staff
Desirable
- Assessor of Health and Safety in the workplace
- Evidence of understanding of Trust Business
- Experience of working in the Trust previously
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent training skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Excellent customer care
- Ability to maintain a high standard of accuracy in a busy environment
- Standard computer skills
- Ability to manage change
- Flexible approach to developing services
- Ability to use own initiative
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level/or hold an NVQ Level 4 in Management or have equivalent knowledge and experience in a management role
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Health and Safety assessor qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of a supply service environment i.e. retail, NHS, warehousing
- Working knowledge of current COSHH and Health and Safety Legislation
- Significant experience working in a goods-in/warehouse/retail environment
- Experience of leading and managing staff
Desirable
- Assessor of Health and Safety in the workplace
- Evidence of understanding of Trust Business
- Experience of working in the Trust previously
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent training skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Excellent customer care
- Ability to maintain a high standard of accuracy in a busy environment
- Standard computer skills
- Ability to manage change
- Flexible approach to developing services
- Ability to use own initiative
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).
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).
