Associate Director of Pharmacy - Patient Care

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

(a) Area of responsibility

The Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care will be responsible for the following areas of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services:

- Clinical Pharmacy;

- Patient Safety and Quality;

- Medicines commissioning;

- Medicines Information;

- Education, training and workforce development;

- Professional secretary to the Medicines Optimisation Group.

The Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care will work closely with the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Services in the overall delivery of Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services.

Areas of responsibility may be subject to review as the needs of the Trust and the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services change.

(b) General

Lead, develop, deliver and evaluate Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services to allocated areas of responsibility.

Assist and support the Director of Pharmacy in planning and managing all aspects of Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services (including budgets and staff) to enable the Trust to deliver effective patient-focussed services.

Work with the Director of Pharmacy to develop and implement strategy and ensure that the department discharges its responsibilities with respect to Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy functions in accordance with departmental, divisional, Trust, regional and national priorities, guidance, standards and legislation.

Monitor and amend service delivery to reflect Trust needs and resources available.

Be responsible for providing input and delivering the Trusts Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Services Strategy and its implementation, which includes requirements specified by the Care Quality Commission, the General Pharmaceutical Council, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, commissioning organisations, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Provide leadership on medicines optimisation issues within the Trust, including acting as the Professional Secretary to the Medicines Optimisation Group.

Directly line managed by and deputises for the Director of Pharmacy.

Attend performance management meetings and help present evidence to demonstrate departmental compliance with corporate and national targets, and to support the departments financial and operational performance, highlighting both achievements and concerns.

Attend governance meetings, team leader meetings, and other relevant meetings as required.

Represent the department on Trust wide groups as agreed with the Director of Pharmacy.

Provide expert advice on medicines optimisation, including legal advice, ethical and cost effectiveness to the senior managers, consultants and other health care professionals.

demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders, and the profession.

Identify and promote innovation and best practice.

Be an active contributory member of the Pharmacy Management Group.

Provide cover for colleagues absence as appropriate to the needs of the service.

Participate in the weekend, Bank Holiday, and late night rotas.

Carry out dispensary duties when required for the needs of the service.

Provide support for research and development activity as required by the doctors and other members of the healthcare team. To be involved where appropriate in dispensing of clinical trial materials.

where appropriate act as a representative of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services by contributing to relevant committees dealing with medicines related issues.

Deliver, in collaboration with staff in the Medicines Information Centre, support for Formulary & Drug Usage Audit initiatives.

Perform any other appropriate duties as designated by the Director of Pharmacy.

Be responsible for recruitment of staff, management and development for the areas of responsibility.

Contribute to the operational delivery of pharmacy services within the allocated areas of responsibility, including the ability to prepare/dispense injectable medicines

Knowledge and Awareness

Essential

• The post holder must be able to evaluate and assess situations, both clinical and non-clinical, with a view to providing reasoned expert advice to colleagues on issues such as patient treatment regimens and service developments.

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Masters Degree in Clinical Pharmacy or the equivalent practical experience
• Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable

• Membership of relevant pharmacy leadership bodies
• Management training obtained through short courses

Experience

Essential

• Highly experienced at senior management level.
• Comprehensive understanding of systems relevant to the practice of pharmacy in hospitals.
• Extensive experience as a senior pharmacy manager in a complex environment.
• Experience of service development and strategy development.
• Experience of managing a pharmacy service.
• Financial and budgetary experience.
• Demonstrable evidence of managing change involving staff in a discrete pharmacy area.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Business planning and project management skills.
• Excellent leadership, organisational, prioritisation, time management, personal effectiveness, analytical and problem solving skills of a consistently high standard, maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
• Innovation / implementation skills to develop pharmacy services.
• Communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills essential to exchange highly complex information to colleagues, patients and relatives, clinicians and senior managers.
• Self-motivated and ability to motivate others and act as a role model.
• Ability to develop and implement new procedures.
• Proven track record of successful budget management.
• Ability to think strategically and operationally.
• A demonstrably high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Team player with drive and enthusiasm.
• Computing skills to include a working knowledge of Pharmacy computer systems (e.g. JAC / Ascribe), the internet, Microsoft Office, Power Point, Word, Access and Excel and patient information systems.
• Ability to deal with highly distressing situations and complaints from patients, staff and managers.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Leader, team player, open transparent style of working, engaging with staff, coaching behaviours demonstrated.
• Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy.
• Shows sound leadership qualities and the ability to work as an individual and within a team.
• Possesses personal organisational attributes and an ability to motivate other people.
• Responds positively to service deadlines.
• Able to plan and manage organisational change.
• The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
• The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated information about all aspects of medication issues to senior management colleagues.
• The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).